A first novel can be difficult to give a first impression. Having to get used to the authors style, pacing, prose, dialog, all the while trying to understand what's going on in the story itself. Michael Jordan has an easy flow to his story in these few pages. The dialog seems to come naturally to the characters.
Between the blurb and the first 2+ chapters the narrator, John Coleman, is not someone who gives a good first impression. Probably an alcoholic but definitely a damaged man.
Having only a dozen pages to read I'm sensing a unwelcome familiarity to other novels I've read. A recurring serial killer who appears every 40 years or so. The blurb mentions Elliot Ness from the 1920-30 in connection to the Torso Murderer. Than in the 1960's John's father and the serial killer known as the Butcher. Now in the 2000's there is a new murder that looks similar to these other two. Hopefully The Company of Demons adds to this genre and doesn't just imitate.
Cover works well with the letter that John has kept from the Butcher murderer.
Between the blurb and the first 2+ chapters the narrator, John Coleman, is not someone who gives a good first impression. Probably an alcoholic but definitely a damaged man.
Having only a dozen pages to read I'm sensing a unwelcome familiarity to other novels I've read. A recurring serial killer who appears every 40 years or so. The blurb mentions Elliot Ness from the 1920-30 in connection to the Torso Murderer. Than in the 1960's John's father and the serial killer known as the Butcher. Now in the 2000's there is a new murder that looks similar to these other two. Hopefully The Company of Demons adds to this genre and doesn't just imitate.
Cover works well with the letter that John has kept from the Butcher murderer.