Luke Green

I am a mid-thirties geek who spends his time teaching English in Japan and writing novels in the hopes that he will one day see people talking about his stories.

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• Djinnx'd (The Tamar Black Saga #1) on July 31, 2013
  
  The adventure follows along a number of familiar themes in an original and pleasing manner. I found myself halfway through the book almost before I realized it. There were a number of things that I expected and a number of things that took me for a pleasant loop. The narration proceeds along at a casual sort of dinner table pace. You can almost hear it voiced by someone like Stephen Fry or whoever it was that did the voiceover for the Hitchhiker's Guide movie. While the narrator is consistently describing things in a calm, matter of fact manner, such that you can almost see the amused smirk as he describes the way the story proceeds, you still have a good sense of just how frantic the characters are in certain scenes. A lot of times when an author tries for the dry, smirky narration, then the characters themselves seem to acquire the same sort of calm approach to things. However, this story very thoroughly portrays Denny and Tamar's alternating frustrations with each other and the situation as they move from problem to problem. There are a number of cliches and tropes, but they're handled very well, with a liberal amount of lampshade hanging. Playing with the tropes is a central part of the books humor actually, and it could be said that Denny has weaponized his genre savvy even well past the point of being dangerously genre savvy. And that dovetails in with other elements of the book's story and setting. The story is rather reminiscent of Douglas Adams with the frequent asides and quirky humor, actually. While they don't quite leave the Earth, except when maybe they do, it still remains a fun sort of romp through a fantastically farcical world. Right down to the delightfully irreverent retelling of the Biblical creation that occurs within the first few pages. All in all, a very wonderful piece of writing.
  
• Cowboy Ending - Overdrive: Book One on Oct. 03, 2013
  
  An excellent story all around. I wasn't even aware of just how long it was until I checked it's length bar on my kindle after the fact. The story reads quickly and maintains a high degree of interest throughout. It is somewhere between a superhero origin story and an urban fantasy. Though I tend to include superhero fiction as a kind of urban fantasy. The conflict is personal with hints at a larger scale. The character is focused on the people that relate to his life more than anything else. Even being a basically good person, he is still realistically self-centered, not in the nature of thinking he's better than everybody, but in the nature that he simply doesn't think of things outside his normal life. Which is realistic. Most people don't go around really thinking about what happens to people they don't know. They might see something on the news and talk about how something should be done, but they don't really connect to the event outside the news reports. Joe's focus on his personal concerns, petty or otherwise, that happen to dovetail with deeper evils, is very refreshingly real. The supernatural elements of the story are both immediately obvious to the reader and yet subtle enough that it's easy to see how everyone in the story, including the main character, could overlook it. The characters transformation over the course of the book and the development of these powers is one of the most interesting facets of the story.