Ratings14
Average rating3.7
397 pages ; 22 cm
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3 primary booksThe Amberlough Dossier is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2017 with contributions by Lara Elena Donnelly.
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Amberlough is a highly impressive first novel, but it was too dark for me. While I want to know what happens to the three protagonists, I'm not really likely to go on and read volumes two and three.
This reminded me a lot of Mark Gatiss' Lucifer Box series, with more violence and less tongue-in-cheek humour. I agree with a lot of previous reviewers that it kind of starts in the middle of a conversation none of us were having - the writer casually drops names and places with no explanation or introduction. This would have been less of a problem if it took place in our own world, but it is set in a fictional city with elements drawn from New York or London in the 1920s and 30s. Think Bright Young Things gone spy thriller. It took me a couple of chapters to feel familiar enough with the setting to be interested and then I really got attached to Aristide and Cyril in a way that made the ending a goddamn bitch of an unsatisfactory situation. Now I eagerly await the sequel.
3.5 stars. Dark and somewhat nihilistic. I enjoyed it. Can't say anymore without spoilers.