The Dead Lands

I really enjoyed Percy's werewolf book, Red Moon, so I was keen to get into this one as soon as I could. Sadly, it turned out to be not as good as that book. There is some great vivid writing, very atmospheric and evocative, but two flaws pull it down. Firstly, the bad guys are just too bad - cartoon villains with no depth or believability. Percy also adopts a deliberately fragmented style, with key events happening between chapters or even sentences, leading me to repeatedly go back over what I'd just read to see if I'd missed something, which I normally hadn't. I suppose it's a device to reinforce the idea of a broken world, but it quickly became distracting. Overall, an enjoyable read, but could have been much better.