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    Der Fluch der dunklen Mutter: Geschichten aus der Nightside 4

    By Simon R. Green and Oliver Graute

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    Mein Name ist John Taylor. Ich arbeite in der Nightside. Nur in jenem finsteren Herzen Londons, wo es immer drei Uhr morgens ist und wo Menschen und Nichtmenschen ihre dunkelsten Gelüste befriedigen können, fühle ich mich daheim. Wahrscheinlich, weil ich dort geboren wurde. Ich finde Dinge - Menschen und Gegenstände - und in diesem Fall die Wahrheit über die Ursprünge der Nightside. Fortuna hat mich angeheuert, um darüber Nachforschungen anzustellen. Aber je tiefer ich grabe, desto mehr finde ich heraus, nicht über die Nightside, sondern über die große Frage meines Lebens: wer - und was - war meine lange verschollene Mutter? Bezahlte Aufträge sind eine Sache. Persönliche Questen sind eine andere. Man hat mich gewarnt, es könne sehr schlimm enden, wenn ich die Wahrheit über meine gute alte Mama herausfinde, nicht nur für die Nightside, sondern für die gesamte Schöpfung. Aber ich kann's nicht lassen ... ich bin John Taylor. Das Finden von Dingen macht mich aus. Es ist das, was ich tue. Koste es, was es wolle.
    LanguageDeutsch
    PublisherFeder & Schwert
    Release dateApr 4, 2012
    ISBN9783867621342
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    • 4/5
      I liked this a little more than the last one. I can tell that this is a series that is going to be all over the place as far as how well I liked the story. They are super fast reads though, so until they stink up the barn, I will continue.
    • 3/5
      Ah, here at last, we get to the meat and potatoes of John Taylor's mommy issues. I'm going through this series fairly quickly (although that will slow down shortly as I wait to afford more of the audio versions) so I"m not so much reviewing individual books as the series This one has yet more exploration of the various levels of the Nightside, which is fascinating in and of itself and practically doesn't need so much of the mysteries and action to be enthralling. A bit more fun with various Major Players, more stink and dirt and horror, more Q & A, and plenty of fun for a summer read.
    • 4/5
      Honestly, I don't remember the plot in this one. I remember the ending - and that lots of people died. This is a typical Darkside Book - John Taylor grabs his friends wrecks havoc in the darkside - all that good stuff.I think that you can consider this is the set up book for the big battle that is to come - the one that has been hinted since the very first book. What I like about these books are that it is short, easy to read, easy to understand, and no twisty stuff that requires thinking.
    • 4/5
      Review of the audiobook:I really enjoyed the first book, hated the second and was pretty unimpressed by the third. So it was with great trepidation that I started 'Hex and the City' with it's awful, awful title... And the good news is it's by far the best in the series! Starts predictably enough with John being contacted by a new client, but one who pretty much says 'let's get all this wider story stuff moving, shall we?' by asking him to find the origins of the Nightside. What follows is a tighter, darker and more entertaining ride than we've had yet.I clicked immediately with new characters Sinner, Madman and Pretty Poison, unlike Suzie Shooter and Deadboy with whom the jury's still out, and the supporting cast are pretty decent too (Hern the Hunter, The Lamentation, Merlin Satanspawn, Lord of Thorns are all suitably ridiculous and insanely likable in a demented kind of way). Sure, there are still the endless repetitions of certain key phrases -'I opened my eye, my third eye, my private eye' (enough, Green!) - but it doesn't detract from a ripping good yarn that finally pits Walker against John directly and lifts the stakes to whole new levels.This feels like a direct sequel to the first book with just a few details from the others thrown in to tie them together and genuinely reignites the series. Marc Vietor is outstanding in his interpretation of the principal characters and gets the black humour just right.
    • 4/5
      Not just another case book. This one begins a 3-book series that delves into the origin of the Nightside and reveals who John Taylor's mother is. It doesn't end on a big cliffhanger, but it definitely leaves you eager to read the next book.
    • 3/5
      Moving forward the wider story, but little stand-alone adventure. Seems as though this should have been part of another book; maybe merging together this and the next one?
    • 5/5
      If Clive Barker and Jim Butcher had a baby, and that baby grew up and wrote a book, that book would look like Simon R Green's Nightside series. I get excited when I pick up the next in the series, wondering what awful and wonderful creatures/people/beings I am going to meet. Who is going against John in this book? Who is helping him out? Is this the book in which the destruction of the Nightside and possibly the entire world begins? Possibly, for this is the book in which we meet his mother, and all hell breaks loose. The darkness that is the Nightside is so compelling it is hard to put these books down to do anything else. Read this series and be sucked in!
    • 3/5
      Similar to the others in the series, but it is a little tedious that John knows he destroys the world in the future and how it happens but it seems to be a big surprise to him in every book.
    • 4/5
      John Taylor has Lady luck for a client....literally. This time though the secrets he's being asked to delve into could destroy everything so the Authorities are serious about taking him down. The search could explain the Nightside...and the truth behind his mother. This is an interesting book in the series and where they go from here should be fun to read.
    • 4/5
      Another adventure with my favorite detective: John Taylor. In this, the 4th Nightside Novel, Simon Green leads his main character through a maze with eventually leads him to his mother. We find out who she (possibly) is as well as a beginning sense of how and why the Nightside was created.
    • 5/5
      I am becoming more and more engrossed in this series with every book. In this fourth installment, we finally discover the origins of the Nightside as well as the identity of John’s long, lost mother. The mystery is captivating, the characters compelling, and the creativity astounding. In this novel, I was particularly impressed by Green’s vivid writing and his perfectly delivered dry humor. It’s the kind of prose that gives me chills in a good way, a single line containing a world of meaning and emotion. I loved every minute of this creepy, dark, thrilling adventure, and I can’t wait to read book five.
    • 4/5
      This is the 4th book in the Nightside series by Simon Green.John Taylor is commissioned by the Lady Luck herself to find something near and dear to John's own heart. Lady Luck wishes to know the origins of the Nightside, John suspects that his own mother is linked to the Nightside's origins. John joins up with Madman (who has seen things no human should and, as such, randomly changes the reality around himself) and Sinner (who has been rejected by both heaven and hell and as such cannot be killed) to venture into deeper and darker places beneath the Nightside than have ever been breached; at least ever been breached by people who later lived to tell about.This book was fast-paced, fun, and very creative. I loved Madman, Sinner, and Pretty Poison. They are wonderful characters with a lot of depth and creativity in their personas.This book answers some questions about Walker, the Authorities, the Nightside, and John's mother. It was nice to get come closure around these questions. That being said this was a departure from the previous stories in that it is not a self-contained story and adventure. The end of this book leaves you desperately waiting for the next book to find out what happens.On one hand I kind of liked the transition of this series to something that is larger than one book; on the other hand I miss the self-contained detective story with a mysterious over-arcing storyline. This story was just structured differently from previous ones and whether that is good or bad...well, only the next book will tell.That being said I really liked this book. I found it extremely amusing, as well as extremely disturbing. I can't wait to get my hands on the next one.
    • 5/5
      I thought this was an excellent installment of the Nightside series. Really got into John's and the Nightside's background. Showed more how He can be thought of as so powerful. I can't wait to get to the next one.
    • 4/5
      The series improves. The suspense builds and the action is faster and more intense. Much less digression in this one. Almost every new character is actually a part of the plot. The author provided several new and major revelations while still maintaining the mystery. My curiosity is still peaked and I'm diving into the next one.
    • 5/5
      This fourth book in the series returns us to the fantastically awful world of the Nightside, a hidden world within London where it is always 3am. Our hero, John Taylor, is hired to investigate the origins of the Nightside, but his client has a hidden agenda. John's mother is finally revealed, as the larger story arc takes on a frantic pace. Stunningly creative, the Nightside grabs the imagination and keeps you coming back for more in a noir detective series that really is all about the night.
    • 1/5
      I hoped to like Simon Green's novels. So similar to the Dresden Files. But so pale in comparison. Just read Jim Butcher, don't waste your time with this series.
    • 4/5
      An interesting book. Ties up a few of the plot hooks from earlier books. In this one John is asked to look into the history of the Nightside. No-one really wants him to do this and a few of the people opposed to this are willing to kill him to stop him.To help him with his investigation he gets the Madman (who has seen too much and now his madness can alter the world around him) and Sinner (who traded his soul for love and even though the woman he loves is a demon he still loves her so he is excluded from heaven and hell). This book introduces you to more characters, some more of the secrets and lies involved and tells us more about what John's background and possible future is.I really do enjoy this series and want to read more of them.
    • 4/5
      Firstly, it's important to point out that 'Hex and the City' is the fourth volume in Green's Nightside series, and if you're a newcomer to the series it would be wise to start with the first volume 'Something From the Nightside' otherwise you will be thoroughly mystified by what follows. The Nightside is a dark and uniquely twisted shadowy netherworld hidden underneath London; a place for monsters, Gods, freaks and all manner of bizzarities to congregate and pursue dark pleasures better not spoken of. The majority of Nightside residents have some kind of special talent that enables them to survive, and John Taylor is no exception. Taylor works as a private eye and his speciality is the ability to find anything. What makes Taylor a unique figure even for the Nightside is the dark mythology that has been woven about his birth and his mysterious mother who isn't human. Taylor is a sympathetic figure with a quick sarcastic wit, but has been hunted since childhood by a variety of shadowy enemies. No one is quite sure what Taylor is; is he a King in waiting or Messiah figure? Or is he something much more powerful, is he truly his mother's son with the ability to destroy not only the Nightside but the world? The one quest that might bring John solace is to finally understand his origins and the truth of the mother who abandoned him. If you have read 'Something from the Nightside' you will have already had a sneak preview of the dystopian future that will come to pass if John not only seeks out his mother but finds her. 'Hex and the City' brings together all the lingering threads of previous books as John is hired to investigate the origins of the Nightside and indirectly his mother. The prose at times borders on hard boiled detective parady, but Green's genius has always lain in crafting incredibly detailed worlds and secondary characters. Hex is no exception in that John's companions on this quest are Madman who saw too deeply into the reality of the Nightside and never quite recovered and subsequently has a nasty habit of unmaking the world around him if he's distracted. Then there is Sinner who sold his soul to the Devil for true love and received it in the form of Pretty Poison a succubus from the Pit, even when she was revealed to him as a demon he continued to love her and thusly is exiled from both Heaven and Hell. The fourth book is arguably the best of the Nightsides so far in that the mysteries that have teased us so far are now well on their way to being clarified. Green's style isn't for everyone and he still has that annoying habit of continually repeating the phrases; 'in the Nightside' or alternatively 'I opened up my third eye, my private eye.' But when a writer comes up with lines like Michael Jackson died for your sins it's hard to hold that against him. In this installment we find out much more abbout Taylor's father, the Collector and Walker who is allotted the unenviable task of trying to keep the Nightside's darker energies from encroaching into the outer world. A must buy for Nightside fans and a fast paced dark fantasy novel for the uninitiated.
    • 4/5
      No. 4 in this great series; if you haven't read the other 3, then don't start with this one! You won't have a clue!Hex and The City welcomes the reader back to the Nightside, hidden among the London city center. In this installment, our hero, John Taylor, a sort of PI, is hired by none other than Lady Luck to investigate the origins of the Nightside so that she can figure out why fortune lies more with some than others. He will earn more than money on this one...he will learn the identity of his mother in payment. But this is a tricky one; he is led from one to another of the oldest beings of the Nightside, each of whom has his own ideas about the Nightside's origins and about who John's mother may be. Reminiscent of an Arthurian quest (in more ways than one!), Taylor has to go back in the past, into the deepest depths of the Nightside and face not one but several challenges in his quest before he learns the truth about his mother. Very good installment; I absolutely love this series!