Book Review: The Immorality Engine by George Mann

As I said, I'm a sucker for pretty cover art, and the book before this in the series (The Osiris Ritual) finished on such a cliff-hanger that I had to have this next one.

The problem is, the cliff-hanger is only resolved about 3/4 of the way through the book and given how big of a problem the thing was (sorry for lack of clarity, I'm trying not to spoil), it was very emotionally unsatisfying. ( For those who don't mind spoilers )

The other problem is that the time-line of Newbury & Hobbes mysteries now seems very squashed, because I'd assumed that, by the start of the third book, they'd been a team for ~18 months, but apparently it's not quite a year and that seems to be a lot to pack in. What happens in this book explains why book 2's main villain was such a let down after a book and a half of build up, because the author appears to have decided to turn ( spoiler )

into the main villain of the series.

I will read the rest of the books, but not with the same "must read, must read".

( LibraryThing Suggestions )

Two of which I've read.

The Impact Before Lockdown and Lockdown

The only thing I'm really going to say about the Impact before Lockdown is that it nicely set up Lockdown, and that it made Davey Richards (if I've got that Wolf's name right, when I say I call the American Wolves "little wolf" and "big wolf", I am not joking) look a million dollars.

Oh and it turns out the way to get me to like Anderson is to get him to actually do something to actively be a good guy, like defending Christy Hemme.

Lockdown:

Now I know I always say I hate cage matches because of the level of danger, but I do like that they've gone back to Lockdown being all cage matches because what's the point in calling your event "Lockdown" if they're not all going to be locked down.

I approved of the Wrestle-1 crossover matches, even if I could have done with the X-division title change actually being announced before the match. I get what TNA are going - 'go to our house shows, stuff happens' but I'd like to have actually seen Aries vs Sanada. It was also quite clever to put the guys who have experience of wrestling in Japan in the match.

The Sam Shaw match set its shenanigans up quite early on ( and it even got me to cheer for Anderson )

Hello there new masked people and hello there Manik. Flippy flippy nonsense of the good kind.

Loved the Gunnar vs Storm match, especially Storm's new evil music. The Knockouts match was also good, as was the little bit with EC3 and the surprise return of Bobby Lashley.

That was where the goodness ended. ( Spoilers )

I can't complain too much, it's TNA, land of enjoy the under-card and try to forget the main event.