I continue liking this series. The writing isn't great, with lots of unnecessarily wordy descriptions of the setting and strange characters just for the heck of it. But the lead, John Taylor, is an amiable hero, complex enough to keep things interesting. The pace was fast and easy and the story peaked my curiosity and kept me engaged. The foreshadowing made me look forward to the next book in the series. ( )

John gets hired by a man who appears and disappears better than he should be able to, to contact his daughter who is a singer on the verge of making big.

There are a number of twists and turns along the way, but they're more like bends than shocking turns, and there are no real surprises in the book. There are a few good moments of comic relief though, that raise it up a little. Divas! as a concept and the description is just so good. Sadly, that's just about all that raises it to 3 stars. ( )

Noir is a very appropriate term to describe Simon Green's Nightside books. They are terribly dark, well written, and highly atmospheric. What an imagination! ( )

John Taylor might have a thing for lost daughters it seems, as he takes on another case involving such a woman. This time she is not lost in the physical sense, but mental, being a famous singer.

A fun tidbit in that the Nightside has its own transvestite superheroine.

We see here that the Nightside is a mixture of superscience and the supernatural, much like Grimjack's Cynosure, for another example, when John is called in at the start to look at the problems a power plant run by an old friend is having. What is at the heart of that is a plot used many a time in comics.

We also discover the newspaper is run by the World's Greatest Victorian Adventurer hero, who was sent through time by his old archenemies, the fate of whom no-one knows.

John, teaming up with Dead Boy, must work out what is going on.

These Nightside books are very entertaining.

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As in Neverwhere and other stories there is another world beside our own and if you know how to get there you find dreams and nightmares. This is a story about that world. A story about a man who works as an investigator in this world, it helps that if he tries he can find anything, but that ability opens him up to being found by his enemies.
He's asked to go find a singer and find out why her audience are comitting suicide. Along the way he gathers help in finding her and solving the reasons behind her ability.
Nothing is ever what it seems on the nightside and it's always 3am. Solutions are never easy and death isn't always a way out.
Dark and interesting this is a great dark fantasy series. Each book is fairly short so it is quite a quick read, the only problem is that you're tempted to just gobble them up! ( )