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Title: A Plague of Scoundrels
Author: Jon Cory
Narrator: Charlie James
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs
Language: English
Release date: 02-08-14
Publisher: Roger Lee Paulson
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Elliot Vail is a floundering San Francisco stand-up comedian who will do anything for a cheap place to live. So when strange Edward Bockman offers him free rent in exchange for some odd dos and don'ts, Elliot thinks his luck is about to change. After all, despite Bockman's over-active imagination, head-to-toe Robin Hood costume and locked bedroom door, he seems nice enough.
Little does Elliot know that his new landlord is time-traveling to trysts with an ex-mistress of England's King Charles II...and that he'll soon be expected to rescue Bockman from a 17th-century prison and a deadly outbreak of the Black Plague.
Members Reviews:
Well written, that man!
It should take a kitchen staffed by Bob Hope, Mark Twain, H.G. Wells, Rafael Sabatini, Bill Gates and Nora Roberts to conjure up this delightful stew of swashbuckling time-travel, romance and bubonic plague. But Jon Cory manages it all by himself, thank you very much. The style is pleasing, the pace is swift and the story unrolls easily through the writer's efforts, not at a cost to the gentle reader. It is suspenseful throughout and the end a mystery until the end. Thoroughly enjoyable and as true to detail as any time-traveler's handbook you can buy in a store.
good start, so-so from there
A San Francisco comedian is let an apartment from a renaissance-festival type in exchange for carrying out a few curious errands, which the landlord requests via notes in a box outside the landlordâs door. And the comedian is never, ever, under any circumstances, to open the landlordâs door.
When the landlord leaves a note saying heâs in grave danger, the comedian opens the door and discovers a time machine. The landlord doesnât just play medieval, he actually travels there! So, our comic protagonist dons a period costume and zaps off to save the day.
Plague was pretty well written to this point. The mystery of the landlord and the box and amusing quips from the comedian kept me interested. After we go back to 17th century England, which is where most of the story takes place, not so much.
The main problem was that Plague tried to be both a comedy and an adventure and wound up lukewarm at both. There was huge laugh potential in the culture clash of a modern stand-up comic in Tudor times, but Cory never mined it. The humor was limited to smart aleck one-liners in the comicâs head. They were kind of amusing, but never laugh-out-loud funny. The story could have used more reaction humor between characters of very different backgrounds. Then the smart aleck tone kept me from unengaged from the long, supposedly nail-biting action scenes.
Iâm not saying Plague was awful. Itâs a light humored, light actioned fish-out-of-water tale with clichéd period characters. The really good beginning just had me expecting more.
Light comedy, quick action, and a little history just for fun
As the title suggests, this novel is a light comedy set (mostly) in the England of Charles II. However, unlike most time-travel stories of this sort, the hero does not interact with the king, or any other great lord of that era. Instead, he has a very believable, if vastly chaotic, adventure involving ordinary citizens of that time (and one extraordinary character from the present), many of whom happen to be scoundrels of one ilk or another. All of the characters are complex enough to be very human, and most compelling in some way.
The action is fast and funny.
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Title: A Plague of Scoundrels
Author: Jon Cory
Narrator: Charlie James
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs
Language: English
Release date: 02-08-14
Publisher: Roger Lee Paulson
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Elliot Vail is a floundering San Francisco stand-up comedian who will do anything for a cheap place to live. So when strange Edward Bockman offers him free rent in exchange for some odd dos and don'ts, Elliot thinks his luck is about to change. After all, despite Bockman's over-active imagination, head-to-toe Robin Hood costume and locked bedroom door, he seems nice enough.
Little does Elliot know that his new landlord is time-traveling to trysts with an ex-mistress of England's King Charles II...and that he'll soon be expected to rescue Bockman from a 17th-century prison and a deadly outbreak of the Black Plague.
Members Reviews:
Well written, that man!
It should take a kitchen staffed by Bob Hope, Mark Twain, H.G. Wells, Rafael Sabatini, Bill Gates and Nora Roberts to conjure up this delightful stew of swashbuckling time-travel, romance and bubonic plague. But Jon Cory manages it all by himself, thank you very much. The style is pleasing, the pace is swift and the story unrolls easily through the writer's efforts, not at a cost to the gentle reader. It is suspenseful throughout and the end a mystery until the end. Thoroughly enjoyable and as true to detail as any time-traveler's handbook you can buy in a store.
good start, so-so from there
A San Francisco comedian is let an apartment from a renaissance-festival type in exchange for carrying out a few curious errands, which the landlord requests via notes in a box outside the landlordâs door. And the comedian is never, ever, under any circumstances, to open the landlordâs door.
When the landlord leaves a note saying heâs in grave danger, the comedian opens the door and discovers a time machine. The landlord doesnât just play medieval, he actually travels there! So, our comic protagonist dons a period costume and zaps off to save the day.
Plague was pretty well written to this point. The mystery of the landlord and the box and amusing quips from the comedian kept me interested. After we go back to 17th century England, which is where most of the story takes place, not so much.
The main problem was that Plague tried to be both a comedy and an adventure and wound up lukewarm at both. There was huge laugh potential in the culture clash of a modern stand-up comic in Tudor times, but Cory never mined it. The humor was limited to smart aleck one-liners in the comicâs head. They were kind of amusing, but never laugh-out-loud funny. The story could have used more reaction humor between characters of very different backgrounds. Then the smart aleck tone kept me from unengaged from the long, supposedly nail-biting action scenes.
Iâm not saying Plague was awful. Itâs a light humored, light actioned fish-out-of-water tale with clichéd period characters. The really good beginning just had me expecting more.
Light comedy, quick action, and a little history just for fun
As the title suggests, this novel is a light comedy set (mostly) in the England of Charles II. However, unlike most time-travel stories of this sort, the hero does not interact with the king, or any other great lord of that era. Instead, he has a very believable, if vastly chaotic, adventure involving ordinary citizens of that time (and one extraordinary character from the present), many of whom happen to be scoundrels of one ilk or another. All of the characters are complex enough to be very human, and most compelling in some way.
The action is fast and funny.