Ghost of a Chance
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A brand-new series from the New York Times bestselling leader of the Nightside novels!
The Carnacki Institute exists to “Do Something” about Ghosts-and agents JC Chance, Melody Chambers, and Pleased Jack Palmer will either lay them to rest, send them packing, or kick their grave ectoplasmic arses with extreme prejudice.
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Green is a very excellent leader, descriptive and vibrant. Just something to remember when you pick up this new book. 3rd day in a row I have woken up and tried to read to go back to sleep, I end up freaked out a bit.
A trio of ghost hunters exploring a haunting while running from a unrealistic set of terrible guys in a underground train system in London.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
In a deserted supermarket in Bath, England are the Ghost Finder agents powerful in magic JC Chance, technological geek who disdains magic Melody Chambers, and telepath Pleased Jack Palmer. The place is haunted and between psi and tech skills, they locate a stone age settlement miles beneath the parking lot. A woman’s murder led to the haunting, but they take justice and send off the victim to the next plane and malevolence lingering from very ancient times is ruined.
Before long afterward, the team, who are part of the Carnacki Institute, is summoned to meet with their boss. A massive supernatural event occurred at London’s Oxford Circus Tube Station. The team is to learn what supernatural essence caused the incident, kick its butt, and send it back to whatever hell it calls home. They realize “it” is a Power so potent no one can defeat it. Adding to their difficulty is two dark arts practitioners from the Crowley Institute; the mission of these operatives is to kill the three Carnacki agents. When they comprehend that the otherworldly entity can terraform the planet into its environs, the adversarial pair of planet groups unite though none of the five meadow operatives judge they have a ghost of a chance to prevent the extinction of their world.
The newest series from urban fantasy grand mage Simon R. Green is as excellent as the Nightside and the Secret Histories sagas. Each of the three Carnacki heroes have their own personalities, which feel believable as they fight the supernatural; their human enemies become frenemies because they may practice dark magic but are not suicidal as they do not want to be devoured by otherworldly powers. Filled with action, no one turns London into a horror-fantasy playground better than Mr. Green consistently does as the city has a Ghost of a Chance of extant the writer’s latest magical mayhem.
Harriet Klausner
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I like the Nightside series so I thought I would give this new Ghostfinder novel a try.
The wording seems to be aimed at about a 10 year ancient level, the plot is nearly non-existent and the characters are stereotyped and 2-dimensional. This is a huge dissappointment from a talented leader who can do so much better. Ghost of a Chance
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Simon Green has never been a wonderful writer, but he usually tells appealing tales. If they’re over-the-top and to some extent frantic, that’s part of what makes them fun. He has some irritating habits, such as frequent repetition of certain phrases and descriptions, but I still loved his Deathstalker books (the first ones anyway), and have been momentously enjoying the Nightside books. Based on these, I didn’t reflect twice about buying this book when I saw it.
It was incredibly disappointing. It felt like all the worst tendancies in Green’s writing cranked up to 11. Every hindrance was The Most Terrible Thing Ever Encountered…until the next one a page or two later. The characters are walking cliches. The Terrible Guys(tm) are cookie cutter characterizations only missing mustaches to twirl. The Fantastic Horrifying Evil From Beyond Time is defeated through…well, let’s just say it’s not by anything original or appealing.
A name in another review said that this book read like Simon Green phoned it in, and that really captures the feel of this book. It feels like he dashed it off during a train ride because it was contractually obligated, deliberately exaggerating his style and padding it out because he had no real plot in mind.
I will certainly not be alternative up any future books in this series (hopefully there won’t be any.)
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I really like Simon Green’s Nightside and also liked the first book in his Secret Histories Series (the only one I have read in that series so far). So when I heard he was starting a new paranormal series called Ghost Finders, I was keen to read the first book in the series. Overall it was okay, Green has made an appealing world but the characters were a bit cliche and hard to distinguish. I was hoping for more, but what was here is a start.
The book follows two teams of “ghost-hunters”. The first is the Carnacki Institute, the excellent guys. There team consists of JC Chance (a sensation hunter), Melody Chambers (a woman very all ears on her equipment) and Pleased Jack Palmer (a pill popping telepath). The second team are the Crowley Project (The evil team); this team features a La Femme Nakita kind of telepath and a psychotic surgeon. JC’s team are called on to help solve a problem in London’s Underground. The trains down there have gone incorrect and are eating people. When JC and team arrive they find that something more evil than they could imaging has taken root. The Crowley Project is also there to try and harness the evil for their own purposes.
Let’s start with what I liked. Green does a fantastic job with imagery and comes up with a lot of appealing and creative thoughts. He’s not worried to delve deep in the macabre and that makes things entertaining. This book was a bit creepy and horrific, but never went into that “too scary to read” region for me. Overall I liked the all-purpose thought of the characters and how the Carnacki Institute team was full of “excellent guys” with some terrible vices. This series is a excellent thought and this book an appealing start.
Sorry to say this book really fell flat in a couple places for me. The characters are overly characterized and come off as clownish at times, which makes it hard to take the tale seriously. The dialogue between them occasionally gets campy to the point of painfulness. There were a few times I wished one of the excellent guys would get eaten. It also drove me nuts that JC Chance fell in like at first sight with that ghost lady. It happened so suddenly and was so improbable that it was irritating; then to have his like for this ghost drive so much of the plot…well it pretty much drove me nuts.
Overall this was not one of Green’s best works. I would start with the Nightside series and then go on to the Secret Histories series before reading this one. That being said Green does set-up an appealing thought, world and characters in this book…the characters were just a bit too campy to pull it off. I will probably read the next book in the series just because I establish some of the things Green did in this book intriguing. I am hoping that the next book does a better job with the characters and has a more believable plot.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5