by Josh Bazell, Luca Lamberti
If you don't think of this as a sequel to Beat the Reaper, this is a tolerable thriller. If you think of this as a sequel to Beat the Reaper, it's a tragedy. The plot was okay, the but outside of that, it's unnecessarily preachy -- the screeds about global climate change and evolution/religion wer...
Lots of fun, challenging interweaving of so many threads, off the wall humour and wit, reading the other reviews, I guess I am glad that I read this one first (Peter Brown #2) so perhaps I will enjoy PB#1 even more as so many reviewers have, but lacking that prior experience I enjoyed this one enorm...
So, listen, to be up front with you: this is not a cryptozoology adventure. Which is what I at first thought it was. No no - our antihero Mr. Bearclaw Brnwa is back, this time a few years on the lam (again) and a cruise doctor. Things get weird when he meets a reclusive billionaire and even weird...
Still funny but without the charm of his previous book.
MY THOUGHTSABSOLUTELY LOVED ITThe protagonist of Beat the Reaper is back but there is little else in common with the first book, except that Pietro Brnwa is back with a new name, Lionel Azimuth. As part of a witness protection program, he is now a cruise ship doctor which is a pretty horrifying con...
It didn't blow me away as much as Beat the Reaper, but I enjoyed Wild Thing. Bazell's got an off-the-wall sensibility that made me laugh out loud, and the only thing that really bothered me in this suspense story was the introduction of a real-world political figure. That took me out of the story,...
You know who's a wild thing? Mike Reynolds.
Why pick up this book when there are a dozen or so books that left unfinished. I'm going on a plane. And this book is light and would be a fast read. I finished one third just on the plane alone. For a start, you like this guy who are not only a doctor, know how to play with his weapon (guns) but ac...
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