I have just discovered this author and i really enjoy this series. I got this one at the library and read it in one day.
It is really good and leaves you thinking and waiting for the next one too,.

Well I've read the entire Nightside series and loved it! Simon Green created a fantastic world with fascinating people. The only bad thing is that I think this will be the last book in the Nightside series. :-(

However it does seem that he's got another series called Shadow's Falls that's linked to the Nightside. Woo hoo!

Simon's writing reminds me a lot of Neil Gaiman and Clive Barker (Everville, Imajica). I can't recommend this series enough!

I had some free time, so I read the entire Nightside series in one go. It was no chore, but a great romp! Once into it, I couldn't put it down and went eagerly from one book to the next. They're light reading but a whale of a good time. I love John Taylor and all the other characters of the Nightside, especially Shotgun Suzie, Walker, Alex, and Dead Boy. The books have some unforgettable scenes, a lot of suspense, and wonderful flights of imagination. What more can one ask for on lazy early summer days? I loved how various themes and characters were woven together across several of the books...very satisfying. This last book brought everything to a conclusion..or did it? Certainly one plot thread was finished, and in an exciting way, but there are other possibilities for John and his companions. I hope this is not the last we will see of Nightside.

I would give this last book (and indeed the series as a whole) 5 stars but it has a number of repetitions, particularly in dialog (there are some phrases that nearly every character uses over and over again, which got tiring). I probably noticed these more given that I read all the books through one after the other. Some repetition is needed to catch up readers who may not have read the previous books (and I agree with previous reviewers that no one should start with this last book), but by the later books, some laziness in the writing as evidenced by repetitious dialog began to show up.

Still, I highly recommend this series to anyone with an interest in urban fantasy and sci-fi.

This is the final book in a trilogy composed of: Hex and the City, Paths Not Taken and last Sharper Than a Serpents Tooth. They really should be read in order and although the middle book is weak they are all good reads. In spite of the apoplectic nature of the events there is some humor as Alex's reaction when he finds out Shotgun Susie and John are in love, then there's the high tech Doormouse (terrible pun), the attempt by the authorities to buy off Lilith and the reaction of the Gods to Lilith. Nicely convoluted plot and the way they get rid of Lilith without destroying the nightside is cleaver. This is obviously not the last book in the series but now maybe the series will go back on the track it started on. There are lots of things unresolved like John's kingdom and many major players are no more. If it wasn't for some plot inconsistencies I would have given this a five star rating. E.g. Tommy Oblivion split with John back in Merlin's time in the previous book but he gets back before he leaves with John and obviously doesn't know what already happened, likewise the doorkeeper remembers John's visit in an earlier time before it happened. (No I'm not going into the logic and physics of time travel but see Julian Barbour's book The End of Time [it's a real theoretical physics book] and also the Scientific American special edition on time.)

I give this four stars simply because this appears to be the last book in the series and I like the whole overall idea of the strange world within a world.

But I have to say, as with some of the other books, though not as much as in some, there is quite a bit of repetition. The action is frequent and it's interesting how the futures he saw continue to look like they will happen until the last few pages.

It did have a bit too clean of a wrap up. I have to say I like Taylor simply because while he has a power that seems that it can do anything, he still has limitations and needs the help of his friends. Things always work out for him though, and that kind of frustrates me. I don't know, bad things, scarring things, occur to commrades, but nothing that bad happens to him, or maybe that's just me.

I enjoyed the showdown with his mother, and the ending was interesting. I would say that if she was as powerful as she claimed then she should have seen that coming, but theoretically, when you're that powerful, you're likely to overlook the obvious.

Mainly though, if so many people are dying, how come there's always more?? I don't know, it just doesn't seem possible. But on the other hand, there will always be people with perversions and those looking to escape so it's not that unbelievable any more than the whole fantasy/sci-fi series is.

Overall, this has been an interesting series, not that poorly written, though there is a bit of repitition and things do seem to go in John's way far too often but it does pass the time, a good light read.