emfiliane reviewed City Of Silence by Warren Ellis
Review of 'City Of Silence' on 'Goodreads'
1 star
Godawful in every way; from beginning to end the writing is some kind of word-salad smarmy pastiche of low-budget film noir voiceovers, without any of the elegance of the Raymond Chandler that Ellis was trying to channel, and the story is as juvenile as it gets, more of a vehicle to throw sex, sleaze, and bizarre impressions of hackneyed goth/industrial stereotypes that were getting old 20 years ago. The art is some of the ugliest in an actual published book I've seen in decades, everything looks more like a flattened Hellraiser doll than actual people.
I'm not even sure what the point of its existence is, since everything in it was done better in earlier Ellis stories. Easily one of the biggest mistakes I've made in a while.
Godawful in every way; from beginning to end the writing is some kind of word-salad smarmy pastiche of low-budget film noir voiceovers, without any of the elegance of the Raymond Chandler that Ellis was trying to channel, and the story is as juvenile as it gets, more of a vehicle to throw sex, sleaze, and bizarre impressions of hackneyed goth/industrial stereotypes that were getting old 20 years ago. The art is some of the ugliest in an actual published book I've seen in decades, everything looks more like a flattened Hellraiser doll than actual people.
I'm not even sure what the point of its existence is, since everything in it was done better in earlier Ellis stories. Easily one of the biggest mistakes I've made in a while.