Andrew P. Weston is Royal Marine and Police veteran from the UK who now lives on the beautiful Greek island of Kos with his wife, Annette, and their growing family of rescue cats. He is the creator of the international number one bestseller, The IX. On weekends, you might find him drinking Earl Grey Tea whilst dressed as Captain Jean Luc Picard.
Hell Bound is new novel of the underverse from Perseid Press...
It's not often that this happens, I'm generally pretty good with selecting the stories I want to read, but I really didn't care for Hell Bound as much as I though I would.
Conceptually it sounds like I should love this story about Satan's Bounty Hunter, Daemon Grim, and his personal posse of trackers: Nimrod, Champ Ferguson, and Yamato Takeru. Known collectively as the Hell Hounds. There are a number of interesting characters as well as a generally engrossing story, but it wasn't enough to overcome the cutesy approach to Hell.
What I mean by cutesy is calling just about everything in Hell by the antithesis of its name from the world above. This quickly became annoying and distracted me from enjoying the story, but the author continued to pile them on throughout the book. Things like the Fiendish Bureau of Investigation; instead of a bible in each room of a hotel they have a copy of Dante's Inferno; there's a ship called HSMS Titanic (His Satanic Majesty's Ship); "there's been a lot of chatter on the white market" and on and on.
Although the story is self contained, there are more than enough loose ends to warrant a sequel, a sequel I'm nearly certain I'll be skipping.
Hell Bound is available now as an e-book from Perseid Press.
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