Home > Books & Magazines > Printed Book >

Underlife - Robert Finn

Description: ISBN 1905005695 / Genre: Crime / Thriller / Author: Robert Finn / Paperback / 96 Pages / Book is published 2008-02-15 by Snowbooks Ltd

Newest Review: ... feel real or capture the reader's imagination. They are terribly ill-defined, so it's difficult to feel much sympathy for ... more

... their plight or care about their fate. The two central characters - Clipper and Rachel - feel like artificial constructs, simply doing what the author needs them to do without any good reason. They react to things in a highly unlikely way, have awkward, stilted conversations and their relationship just never rings true. They feel weak and flat and this removes much of the interest from the book. The plot also feels very weak and rather derivative. If you took out the limited magical element, there would be very little...more

Read Reviews for Underlife - Robert Finn

Underlife - Robert Finn: Underlife = Under Par and Under Developed (933 words)
by - written on 22/06/09 (Very useful, 47 readings)
Rating:

Confusingly, Underlife is the third book to be published in Robert Finn's "Adept" series (after Adept and Ex Machina), but in terms of the narrative, it's actually the first in the sequence. For some reason Robert Finn has gone all "George Lucas" and entered the world of the prequel. Sadly, he's also imitated Lucas by making this prequel a pale imitation of his earlier books. Underlife briefly follows the adventures of Clipper, a small time London thief who stumbles into the middle of a fight on the London Underground involving two Adepts (people with magical powers). Clipper finds himself fighting for his own survival and that of Rachel, a ... Read the complete review