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The entertaining work of Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan has been deepened by bringing in the gloomy racial history of the United States.
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Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan: Soulless. The Blackwood cases. (The Hollow Ones). Finland Juha Kare. Oak. 313 s.
Odessa Hardwicke is a recent FBI agent sitting with his mentor, senior agent Walt Leppo, at a restaurant in New Jersey. The meal is interrupted by an alarm. An official accused of corruption has been harassed, has already shot a few people and is now on his way to his home in a murderous manner.
Odessa and Walt rush.
As a result of a creepy and strange chain of events, Odessa will shoot his colleague Waltin. He was forced to, as Walt also interferes murderously at the crime scene.
The supernatural curse seems to have struck New Jersey.
From the original a director known from horror fantasy films Guillermo del Toron and thrillerists Chuck Hoganin the collaborative novel combines two genres of horror. The work features graphic violence from thrillers and, on the other hand, the old magic of a horror fantasy and otherworldly creatures.
In the past, the couple has a Finnish vampire theme Scourge-trilogy. The soulless start The Blackwood cases series.
In solving the supernatural riddle, Odessa encounters two men. The other is the deadly old FBI agent Earl Solomon, who at one time was one of the first black agents in federal police.
On another level, the novel follows Solomon’s first story, the lynching of a white man in the Mississippi Delta, which Solomon is sent to investigate in the name of preventing racial riots.
The third time level of the novel involves a mysterious Hugo Blackwood, from whom Solomon urges Odessa to seek help. Through Blackwood, the story enters the level of ancient magic with all the spices.
An entertaining novel has been deepened by bringing in the gloomy racial history of the United States. Indeed, this works best in the episodes describing Earl Solomon’s youth. In the deep south of the Klu Klux Clan and racist sheriffs, a friendly working environment is certainly not expected of a black agent.
However, the work must not bring racism properly into the skin of the reader. Probably the reason is that the protagonists Odessa Hardwicke and Hugo Blackwood are not themselves representatives of minorities.
In a completely different way, horror fantasies and race issues are combined in HBO’s TV series Lovecraft Country, which is based on Matt Ruffin to the novel of the same name. Lovecraft Country racism, in its coldness, makes even the afterlife monsters turn pale.
“Unless past injustices are rectified and dealt with honestly, dark forces will get through a leaking wound. The same goes for the city and the people, ” Soullessnovel is content to state. I guess so.
The soulless the combination of a thriller and a horror fantasy works by itself. The book is entertaining to read, but there is nothing new in it for lovers of the genre.
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