A review by ianbanks
The God Killer by Simon R. Green

3.0

The bad first. The descriptions of Hawk and Fisher are pretty much cut and pasted from the earlier novels. The exposition is lengthy and the dialogue can feel repetitive at times. However, I bloody loved the rest of it. It’s exciting, funny and pushes the two leads in slightly new directions. Also, I only did a cursory skim through Google but I think there might be a case to be made for Mr Green being a forerunner for the “New Weird” movement that seemed to be all the rage about 20 years back. The Eldritch horror is a little lacking, nor is the prose a particularly non-Euclidean shade of purple, but Haven and its denizens would fit nicely in among the inhabitants of China Mieville’s Bas-Lag. Hmmm... I wonder if anyone’s written a fanfic about the Captains chasing down the Weaver or Jack Half-a-prayer...