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Something from the Nightside (Nightside, Book 1) Mass Market Paperback – May 27, 2003

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Taylor is the name, John Taylor. My card says I’m a detective, but what I really am is an expert on finding lost things. It’s part of the gift I was born with as a child of the Nightside.
           
I left there a long time ago, with my skin and sanity barely intact. Now I make my living in the sunlit streets of London. But business has been slow lately, so when Joanna Barrett showed up at my door, reeking of wealth, asking me to find her runaway teenage daughter, I didn’t say no.
           
Then I found out exactly where the girl had gone.

The Nightside. That square mile of Hell in the middle of the city, where it’s always three A.M. Where you can walk beside myths and drink with monsters. Where nothing is what it seems and everything is possible.
          
I swore I’d never return. But there’s a kid in danger and a woman depending on me. So I have no choice—I’m going home.
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    Nightside Series
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    240 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publisher
    Ace
  5. Publication date
    May 27, 2003
  6. Dimensions
    4.2 x 0.65 x 6.7 inches
  7. ISBN-10
    0441010652
  8. ISBN-13
    978-0441010653
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“A fast, fun little roller coaster of a story…macabre and thoroughly entertaining.” –-Jim Butcher, author of the Dresden Files

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Simon R. Green is the New York Times bestselling author of the Secret Histories Novels, the Novels of the Nightside, the Ghost Finders series, and the Deathstalker series. He lives in England.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ace (May 27, 2003)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0441010652
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0441010653
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.2 x 0.65 x 6.7 inches
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Simon Green is the author of the bestselling DEATHSTALKER cycle, the New York Times bestseller ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES, and many other novels. He lives in Bradford-upon-Avon in Wiltshire.

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Something from The Nightside was my introduction to the literary worlds of Simon R Greene.I have all of the books in his Nightside series.I'm currently working on his Secret Histories series.The man is that good.Something From The Nightside combines Urban Fantasy, Pulp Noir, and Fanboy fun together in an easy to read and easier to escape into experience.The book is filled with quick wit and colorful turns of phrase.It also contains quirky characters and surreal situations, all delightfully crafted.If you want a book that's fun to read, and a flat out enjoyable time, then this book is a perfect choice.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fast and fun; couple with Skullduggery Pleasant
Reviewed in the United States on November 24, 2011
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Our hero's interior monologue is repetitive, but in a compelling and immersive way. You are drawn into the world of the Nightside and walk with Taylor as he navigates its secret places. The key seems to be that Simon Green is committed to John Taylor and to the Darkside. Taylor is a Sam Spade detective, without ironic detachment. Darkside is an alternative, creepy London, without tongue in cheek. Dialogue is snappy and/or laugh out loud funny, but only because Green is committed to the material and sells it without trying to be detached from it or superior to it. Because everything is interconnected and because there are back stories galore that will only be teased out as the series progresses, there is mystery and atmosphere to burn.

And these really are mood pieces. The plot is only serviceable. The action is violent, (but not in that unnerving vaguely S&M way that some authors have adopted). The atmosphere is unrelievedly menacing, and the secondary characters are unique and have a little dimension to them. All in all, a very satisfying diversion.

By the way, if you like these Darkside books, you should check out Derek Landy's Skullduggery Pleasant series. Even funnier and snappier dialogue, better plotted, and a little more over the top, the series has the same sort of appeal, and may well please Simon Green fans.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Literary Snobs Need Not Read
Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2024
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I started reading this series when I was in the military. I picked it up from the Free Rack. I fell in love with this series quickly due to the ideas and the characters. Green isn't a literary scholar, or at least if he is, he doesn't write like it, but I do enjoy this series. If you are looking for Updike level literature, move on. If you are a scifi reader that doesn't mind cliches and easy dialogue, but you are easily captivated with ideas and action, Green is for you. I rectntly bought book one and again, I read half in one sitting.
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J. Michael Stanley
5.0 out of 5 stars Writing to effect...
Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2020
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At first this book seems ... very overdramatic. The only other book I've seen like that was written by an author still young in their craft. That author later revised their own book and removed all the over-drama. But to judge this book like that one is, I think, a little presumptuous. This author is not new. This author has matured in his craft. So I can only conclude that he wrote it this way to create an effect. In fact if you read carefully, all of the elements of the story are present that a mature author would craft. So what effect was the author going for? When I stop to feel the effect, it strikes me as if ... the reality of the nightside is on a bad acid trip. Anything can happen -- possibly beyond your suspension of disbelief as a reader. The world itself is malleable and adaptable, horrible and compelling, yet always exciting and full of action. This first book is definitely a little "extra." The second one dials it back just a bit. But overall, I haven't read anything quite like this before. I'm definitely enjoying it and looking forward to read more.
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3.0 out of 5 stars This series doesn’t hold up to time, very lazily written & predictable
Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2023
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So I ran out things to read and ended up here. Which this a review for the series, which out of all of them, this first book is the best since it doesn’t hold itself up so strongly with lazy characters development troupes.

I love the premise, if I could give this premise to a more mature author, it would likely be amazing. That said the flaws in the story and character development are too glaring for any real enjoyment after the second or third book. This book is the best out of all of them. Hence 3/5. The rest would get 2/5 and 1/5 from me. Here is why(mild spoilers)

So my first issue is he can’t write women, all of the female characters are just terrible. I truly don’t want to see Suzi in any of the books because every time I see her, I am reminded that this author’s idea of a ‘strong female character’ is all tied into he being assaulted as a child. Like that’s her catalyst, which turns all of her actions into a reflection of that trauma. Which sure, I get a lot of male writers only see when though the lens of how they have interacted with men, letting the actions of those men define them to there core. But it’s just so lazy, almost as lazy as calling his power ‘ his private eye’ which he says that like three times at least in every book. People, not just women, like all of people aren’t the most complex beings but they are more complicated then that. Speaking of which, the whole ‘no one can touch me now because this bad thing happened when I was a kid’ take away from him trying to make Suzi the hard death dealer, instead it scream scared kid with a gun, which is like super insulting to anyone who has ever dealt with trauma.

Also the main characters mommy issues are like the core personality for his character. And dudes kind of prude, because the ‘deprived’ sex acts are basically just Bdsm. Like I get kink shaming wasn’t a thing back then but your trying to pain a picture of a really scary place and all you can come up with is leathers and spankings then maybe you should pick another theme.

There’s more, so much more, like this misgendering, the fact all the big bads are women, the fact that his MC seems to be scared of everything but also has like unlimited power to unmake everyone. Like dude can unravel magic and the main weapon of literally everything is, you guessed it, magic.

I really really wanted to like this, the reason I writing this review for the first book is that I don’t want anyone else to buy this series and be super disappointed.

If you want cheesy dime store noir with the supernatural twist, don’t care about well developed side character, predictable plot lines, like the client having the same name as the artifact dude looking for and him trying to pawn it off a this huge revel, really it’s more about the nightmare town and the people in it that interest me. The actual story, the core plot, all of it is lazy, boring after the third book, and super predictable. Not once do I think that the MC is in trouble, he just is never really in danger.

Which is the downfall of building a character up over time but in this case, his hero was over powered from the start and just is too lazy or bright enough to us it.

Is it bad? I like a certain time of young male reader would enjoy these books, but if you’re well read in any capacity, the flaws take a lot of away and make it incredibly hard to enjoy.

Hopefully this helps someone.

Some of this dialogue is verbatim repeated throughout every book, I get having catch phases but this like every fight scene.
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john
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book, book 1, found it hard to put down
Reviewed in Canada on May 23, 2021
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Kept me on the edge of my seat. Great characters, interesting plot development. Never see where the next problem is going to come from. Love this author!
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Vicky
3.0 out of 5 stars Book condition doesn't look new
Reviewed in India on June 11, 2022
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The front page of the book looks like it was been used multiple times, it got bend marks.
Regarding the novel, its one of my favorite.
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Firefly
5.0 out of 5 stars Where it's always 3am..
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 1, 2017
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This is the start of a great series. It never pretends to be a great literary classic but still is up there amongst my go to books.
John Taylor is a private detective, no one's hero, who has run away from the Nightside. He is dragged back to his previous life by a damsel in distress who needs a hero.
This book introduces the main characters that you will meet throughout the series. Walker a force for the Authorities, who can call on the armies of church and state to sort things out, Razor Eddie Punk God of the Straight Razor who made a deal with someone or something from the Street of Gods. Alex Morrisey Strangefellows bar owner ,who may be related to King Arthur, who only wears black until they invent a darker colour. My favourite character apart from John Taylor has to be Shotgun Suzie also known as " Oh Christ its her, RUN!"
All said and done a fun read and an easy one!
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Stefano Coppoli
5.0 out of 5 stars ottimo
Reviewed in Italy on June 3, 2013
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ottima spedizione rapida ed il prodotto risulta esattamente come da annuncio, consigliatissimo a tutti quelli che vogliono acquistare prodotti di qualità
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Jacqui Dodds
3.0 out of 5 stars Urban Fantasy set in an alternative dimension of London.
Reviewed in Australia on January 13, 2015
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Urban Fantasy set in an alternative dimensional London, I think!
Something from the Nightside’s main character is John Taylor. John is a private detective with a gift for finding things. He takes a case about a missing girl that forces him to confront his past and enter the Nightside. John Taylor has a serious reputation in the Nightside and he thought he had left that world behind years ago.
Something from the Nightside has a cast of violent, self loathing characters get a bit tiresome after awhile. The monologues John delivers to introduce them though witty, go on a bit?
Simon R. Green does a very good job of giving you the feel of for the world he created. It's a creative mix of a lot of dark fantasy places we've seen before.
I understand it is the private eye noir style he is going for, but I just wanted him to stop the constant reaffirmation of the Nightside’s weirdness. For example:
“"The Nightside is the secret, hidden, dark heart of the city. London's evil twin. It's where the really wild things are…”
"It's always night in the Nightside. It's always three o'clock in the morning, and the dawn never comes….”
“You can buy or sell anything in the Nightside, and no-one asks questions. No-one cares. There's a nightclub, where you can pay to see a fallen angel forever burning inside a pentacle drawn in baby's blood”
"Everything you ever feared or dreamed of is running loose somewhere in the shifting streets of the Nightside..”
“You can find anything in the Nightside, if it doesn't find you first. It's a sick, magical, dangerous place…”
The constant repetition was extremely distracting, if I turned a page that didn't have "in the Nightside" on it I was surprised. That alone prevents me from giving it a higher rating.
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