Customer Reviews

The God Machine (Hellboy (Pocket Star Books))

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If you like the Hellboy stuff,you'd probably enjoy this book.Follows the Hellboy series nicely and is a pretty good read on it's own.

Sniegoski has got this down, I think.

"It was a near perfect day up till now. But zombie cyborgs...Hellboy sighed. "I'm not sure I deserve so much fun."

This novel has the right combination of humor, horror and pathos for Hellboy, as a group of spirit-mediums attempt to incorporate and raise a god they worship.

All the crazy weird crap is there, too, along with Director Manning's Uncle Steve's ghost, undertakers, storage facilities for excess paranormal artifacts, and other oddities.

His time working on BPRD comics certainly seems to have assisted the writing for this book.

It appears this a series that it will continue to be worth getting.

the concept is cliched in a bad way and the writimg falls horribly, horribly short of remotey good. reads like something a student would write in highschool; all the characters have seemingly the same voice and personality, (that of the writers, im assuming) and such pesonality is shallow and somwhat blase. i have absolutely no interest in discovering whats happening since the evil dudes plot is revealed in the first few chapters, and the rest of the book is merely a set up for gregarious, bad one liners that all characters deliver equally and without indication that they 're even remotely different from each other. i made the mistake of reading 'on earth as it is in hell' before this and it set the bar high, and set me up for massive dissapointment when i moved on to this book.

It started out slow developing the characters, but then built to a climax and ended really well.