In Your Dreams
By Tom Holt
Tags: fantasy, humor, JW Wells
Started: 4th February 2008
Finished: 23rd February 2008
Rating: 8.0
Review
Another entertaining book by Tom Holt, although I got a bit bogged down in the middle.
This is the middle book in a trilogy, and wasn’t quite as entertaining as the first one, but was still worth my time. I’ll have to track down the third book to get a resolution to the story, although the reviews on amazon.com seem to think #3 isn’t as good. So far Tom Holt seems like a hit-and-miss author.
The other two books I’ve read by him, Flying Dutch and Faust Among Equals, were alternately entertaining and terribly mediocre, in that order.
However, something made me pick up “The Portable Door”, and I’m glad I did. Holt seems to do better with a nebbishy Englishman for a protagonist, as opposed to Faust or the captain of The Flying Dutchman. I’m imagining that it’s a sort of “write what you know” phenomenon.
Anyways, I’ve got two other (non JW Wells trilogy) books by Holt waiting in the wings, so it’ll be interesting to see how they turn out. He’s just entertaining enough that I’ll keep checking out his other writing, but he’s no Terry Pratchett, not by a long shot.
