TAD WILLIAMS BOOKS IN READING ORDER SERIES

Although The Bobby Dollar series was intended to be lighter, and mostly succeeded in Dirty Streets of Heaven, this description does a number to the first person pacing in Happy Hour in Hell. I’ve found that, ever since reading Memory, Sorrow and Thorn which felt like reading about a snail pushing a brick across a desert, Tad Williams needs to learn a lot from the ‘less is more’ way of writing as far as his attention to description goes. Firstly, it’s overly detailed, in that it has so much flow of consciousness that it takes away the pace and flow of some scenes that would have been better off without Bobby’s excessive monologue. This focuses on Bobby clearing his name of higher angel’s accusation that he is to blame for The Third Way and, not to spoil too much of the latest novel, let’s just say it’s a very stressful time for him.Īs this review is about the entire trilogy, I think I can make some pretty broad generalizations about Tad William’s first person writing style. The last book brings these plot elements together for a somewhat revealing ending in Sleeping in on Judgement Day.

This leads to yet another homage of Dante’s inferno, where Bobby must go through the different layers of hell in order in order to save his love in the sequel, Happy Hour in Hell. Bobby is stuck in the middle when his investigation of missing souls leads him to fall in love with one of the demons until she is taken away China Town style. Where Dirty Streets of Heaven draws from previous urban fantasy books like Dresden, it also draws upon myths of corruption of angels in works such as Paradise Lost, but instead of Lucifer’s fall from Heaven to rule hell, Angels and Demons make a deal to create The Third Way. Whether it fulfilled this potential is really up to the readers personal preference, but I would personally say no.ĭespite not completely beating the originals, his books do create some great post modern homages of many previous works of the past. To give some context to Tad Williams’ work because his first book, The Dragonbone Chair, was seen as yet another superior copy of the first epic fantasy series, The Lord of the Rings, it’s only fitting that the first Bobby Dollar novel, Dirty Streets of Heaven, was seen as an potentially superior copy to the staple urban fantasy, detective series, The Dresden Files. However, now that Tad Williams is writing a new trilogy set in Osten Ard 3o years after the events of his first series, Memory, Sorrow and Thorn, I’ve decided to write a review in the belief that it will be a while before we get another book set in Saint Jude. Without spoiling it for anyone, I’ll simply say that it ends with a few major loose ends still untied. Although it’s a 3 book series so far, I shouldn’t really be calling The Bobby Dollar series a trilogy considering how Sleeping in on Judgement Day ended.

Tad williams books in reading order