I was told Tim Dorsey writes like Christopher Moore so I had to check him out.
And the writing style is similar, but where Moore’s characters are a lovable bunch of misfits in a city he obviously loves, Dorsey’s characters aren’t as they are far, far more murderous and ambivalent, and Florida is painted in an unflattering light.
Not that Florida has a lot of stuff that could be shown in a POSITIVE light…
I think it’s the difference in characters that really got me. Dorsey’s characters - even the primary that I hear is supposed to be the hero (or antihero) of the series isn’t so much lovable goof as goofy sociopath.
And sociopath ≠ lovable.
Honestly, a lot of the characters feel like sociopaths or at least homicidally selfish and that made it less fun to read.
And yeah, while I think Florida kinda sucks after living there for too damn long, it’s undeniable that Moore uses his love of settings to make you the reader want to spend time there with the characters and Dorsey doesn’t.
I didn’t enjoy it nearly as much as I wanted to, but I didn’t hate it enough to stop and I want to see if these characters grow on me in subsequent books.
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