And so we continue with the adventures of Helios né Frankenstein and all the troubles he’s causing for modern day New Orleans.
Of the main plotlines, we get a lot more of Randall Six and Arnie. I like the story in general, but the pacing is strange, stretching across two books and then sort of ending.
We get Helios and yet another Erika, along with all sorts of things starting to go wrong with the New Race. It’s pushing increasingly into Horror, especially Body Horror, and I like it. The only gotcha is that it feels rather weird for it all to be going wrong now. I do like seeing more variations and points of view among the New Race. They’re not all the same, no matter how much Helios wants them to be and that is fascinating. Especially when you bring Deucalion into the mix.
We get more of Carson and Michael, now off the rails and going straight cop turned vigilante. It makes sense, given the complete inability to know who’s Old and who’s New, but it still is a bit jarring. I do love their banter. At this point, I wholly expect one or both not to survive the series, which is a bummer, but expected in this sort of thing.
I think the weirdest thing about this book (and the series thus far) is that it really all feels like one very very long single novel. The ’endings’ do tend to end at least one plot thread, but there are always new things being brought up and random threads ending well before the end of a book. I’m not sure I care for the style. But I’m too into the series now to stop!
All that being said, it’s a good book and I’m looking forward to where we go next!
