Guard Against Dishonor [Dramatized Adaptation]

"In the light of a flickering brazier, an angel from the Street of Gods was throwing dice with half a dozen gargoyles. A fast-talking salesman was hawking bracelets plated with something that looked like gold. A large Saint Bernard with a patchy dye job was trying to bum a light for its cigar. Two o......more

Simon R Green produces very decent books - not great, but they don't pretend to be literature and they get the job done in terms of passing some pleasant time. All his series, in various, related, genres are pretty much at the same level - solid, entertaining fiction, but I'm beginning to like the H......more

3.5 stars I figured out the guilty parties pretty early on in this story, but I still managed to have fun with it. Even with Green’s no frills plain style still in effect, there was tons of action in this book, and as always, it is blessedly short and sweet. One thing that makes this different from t......more

Probably a hard one for me to rate fairly - not a bad book by any means, but is following one of the tropes that I really dislike in fiction, and have likely called out in other novels I've reviewed as well where following similar trope. Allows us to see more of Hawk and Fisher independently here tho......more

I'll be honest, I did not see this coming. It was smart of them to separate the two guards, but at the same time, is it that easy to pit them against the other? I feel like they're inseparable enough that they wouldn't even doubt each other. Is this because they're always running on empty and they'r......more