Those Who Walk in Darkness [Audio Cassette]

John Ridley (Author), Patricia R Floyd (Narrator)

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Recorded Books (2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1402575572
• ISBN-13: 978-1402575570
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (44 customer reviews)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A movie treatment in book form, April 13, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Those Who Walk in Darkness (Hardcover)

Leaving aside the plot holes and the lack of anything but the most cursory character development, the book is just badly written and in dire need of an editor. Long chapters of synopsis are combined with sentence fragments to create something that reads like a quickly dashed-off screenplay treatment. I'm sure the destruction of San Francisco and the various metahuman/cop battles will look great on screen, but as a book, this makes comic books look deep.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Bitter much?, July 31, 2007

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Evan the Dweezil (A Place-Sort Of, Montana) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Those Who Walk in Darkness (Hardcover)

I haven't seen this much pent up anger in a book since Order of the Pheonix. Soledad is an angry, two demensional, bigot who's a Mary Sue to top off the nastiness that exudes from her. Her coworkers are angry. The boyfriend is a nonentity. The Mutants (whom we get so little background about) seem to be the only faction in this story that have a right to be angry since they're being hunted down regardless of their personal histories.

Anger about Los Angeles. It's so plainly obvious that the author hates LA with a passion that makes his blood boil. Why, oh why, did he set it there? He even hates the nice days in town. I went to college in LA and know first hand that it's not like what appears on tv, but holy cats, this guy really doesn't like it. The pure venom in the narration makes it that much more difficult to put up with such borederline protagonists.

Also, is this a book or a script? The use of colons instead of verbs was simply poor form. I understand that Mr. Ridley is a tv writer, which is great, but he needs to understand that prose and scripts are different beasts, or his editor should be fired.

I picked up this book because it had a great title, which is the only thing that was any good about it.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Are the 'supes' bad or did we make them that way???, October 27, 2005

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R. Kyle (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Those Who Walk in Darkness (Hardcover)

Soledad O'Roarke is a BAMF LA cop who specializes in killing supernaturals. When the supernaturals first came, they were heroes. An unfortunate accident changed that and now it seems they're rogues.

This is a dark and disturbing book. Seems like the whole class of supernaturals is branded here by one's failings. It's worth a read, but the hate for a whole class of people is just too darn close to Nazi Germany to make this more than a one-book affair for me.