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Colin Hollinghead is a young man going nowhere fast. Working for his dad might have seemed like a good idea at the time, but starting at the bottom in the widget-making industry has somehow lost its appeal. And now the business is in trouble. At least his father has a plan to turn things round - a new work force that will improve profit margins and secure the company's future for eternity. The deal looks great on paper, but they do say that the devil is in the detail - and the old rogue certainly seems to be involved in some capacity. Colin needs help. Perhaps his new friend from J.W. Wells & Co. (Practical and Effective Magicians, Sorcerers and Supernatural Consultants) can help. Sparkling with wit and oozing charm, Tom Holt's new comic caper will delight his readers and prove once and for all that going to work can actually be hell. And now the business is in trouble. At least his father has a plan to turn things round - a new work force that will improve profit margins and secure the company's future for eternity. The deal looks great on paper, but they do say that the devil is in the detail - and the old rogue certainly seems to be involved in some capacity. Colin needs help. Perhaps his new friend from J.W. Wells & Co. (Practical and Effective Magicians, Sorcerers and Supernatural Consultants) can help. Sparkling with wit and oozing charm, Tom Holt's new comic caper will delight his readers and prove once and for all that going to work can actually be hell.
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Colin Hollinghead is a young man going nowhere fast. Working for his dad might have seemed like a good idea at the time, but starting at the bottom in the widget-making industry has somehow lost its appeal. And now the business is in trouble. At least his father has a plan to turn things round - a new work force that will improve profit margins and secure the company's future for eternity. The deal looks great on paper, but they do say that the devil is in the detail - and the old rogue certainly seems to be involved in some capacity. Colin needs help. Perhaps his new friend from J.W. Wells & Co. (Practical and Effective Magicians, Sorcerers and Supernatural Consultants) can help. Sparkling with wit and oozing charm, Tom Holt's new comic caper will delight his readers and prove once and for all that going to work can actually be hell. And now the business is in trouble. At least his father has a plan to turn things round - a new work force that will improve profit margins and secure the company's future for eternity. The deal looks great on paper, but they do say that the devil is in the detail - and the old rogue certainly seems to be involved in some capacity. Colin needs help.Perhaps his new friend from J.W. Wells & Co. (Practical and Effective Magicians, Sorcerers and Supernatural Consultants) can help. Sparkling with wit and oozing charm, Tom Holt's new comic caper will delight his readers and prove once and for all that going to work can actually be hell.
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Ein unbekanntes Unternehmen hat eine feindliche und sehr verdeckte Übernahme der magischen Agentur JWW&CO durchgeführt. Dabei weiß seltsamerweise niemand genau, wer diese Übernahme durchgeführt hat und nun der neue Eigentümer der Firma sein könnte.Außerdem ist die Ankündigung zur Verbesserung der Effektivität alle Mitarbeiter einer Einschätzungsprüfung zu unterziehen nicht unbedingt von allen gerne gesehen. Schließlich ist man zum Teil schon seit Jahrhunderten dabei.
Die jüngeren Mitarbeiter unter ihnen auch Cassie Clay machen sich schon etwas größere Sorgen um ihre Beurteilungen und gehen darum ihren Aufgaben umso gewissenhafter nach. Doch speziell für Cassie erweist sich dies als ein wenig schwierig, weil sie ständig in Raum-Zeit-Fangspulen einfangen wird. Dabei ist Cassie vollauf beschäftigt mit der Bearbeitung eines Vertrags zwischen dem Inhaber des Familienunternehmens Hollingshead und Farren und den Herren der Finsternis, dessen Bestandteil auf der einen Seite bessere Erträge und auf der anderen Seite eine Seele sind. Ein Standardvertrag, der nur durch Vermittlung zu Stande kommen darf.
Zu erfahren, wie sich Figuren in einem Monopoly-Spiel fühlen soll den Helden helfen, heraus zu bekommen, was los ist und dabei zeigt sich, dass es hier ein unangenehmes Reinkarnationsproblem gibt. Das auch noch auf andere Personen und sogar auf die Geographie übergreift. Und am Ende wird bei JWW & Co. nichts mehr beim Alten sein.
Die jüngeren Mitarbeiter unter ihnen auch Cassie Clay machen sich schon etwas größere Sorgen um ihre Beurteilungen und gehen darum ihren Aufgaben umso gewissenhafter nach. Doch speziell für Cassie erweist sich dies als ein wenig schwierig, weil sie ständig in Raum-Zeit-Fangspulen einfangen wird. Dabei ist Cassie vollauf beschäftigt mit der Bearbeitung eines Vertrags zwischen dem Inhaber des Familienunternehmens Hollingshead und Farren und den Herren der Finsternis, dessen Bestandteil auf der einen Seite bessere Erträge und auf der anderen Seite eine Seele sind. Ein Standardvertrag, der nur durch Vermittlung zu Stande kommen darf.
Zu erfahren, wie sich Figuren in einem Monopoly-Spiel fühlen soll den Helden helfen, heraus zu bekommen, was los ist und dabei zeigt sich, dass es hier ein unangenehmes Reinkarnationsproblem gibt. Das auch noch auf andere Personen und sogar auf die Geographie übergreift. Und am Ende wird bei JWW & Co. nichts mehr beim Alten sein.
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Very good
29. Januar 2007
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This is a good one.
A semi-serious caveat: Tom Holt always seems to be writing madly toward deadline,so that he only has time to sketch in the end of his books. So, his ends are often well-worked out, but the characterization and humor of the first 4/5ths of the book fade away.
That's the case with this one. Great twists, great premise, good characters, excellent description, some very funny jokes. But the complicated plot deserves a more fully-realized conclusion, not people explaining things to each other for twenty pages. A few more "seeds" could have planted earlier to suggest the completely out of nowhere meaning of the tree (this isn't a spoiler, we meet the tree at the end of chapter 1). The story wraps up really well, but it's practically a set piece.
But it's still worth reading. (See, I gave it four stars!) Tom Holt is really talented and he's not the only obscenely prolific author to blast through the final pages of his novels to meet some deadline or other.
A semi-serious caveat: Tom Holt always seems to be writing madly toward deadline,so that he only has time to sketch in the end of his books. So, his ends are often well-worked out, but the characterization and humor of the first 4/5ths of the book fade away.
That's the case with this one. Great twists, great premise, good characters, excellent description, some very funny jokes. But the complicated plot deserves a more fully-realized conclusion, not people explaining things to each other for twenty pages. A few more "seeds" could have planted earlier to suggest the completely out of nowhere meaning of the tree (this isn't a spoiler, we meet the tree at the end of chapter 1). The story wraps up really well, but it's practically a set piece.
But it's still worth reading. (See, I gave it four stars!) Tom Holt is really talented and he's not the only obscenely prolific author to blast through the final pages of his novels to meet some deadline or other.
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Not as good as Holt's other stuff.
14. Juni 2007
Format:Taschenbuch
This return to J. W. Wells & Co with new employees and clients is not nearly as good as the earlier books. The story seems a little re-tread and most of the characters are flat and uninteresting. Pretty disappointing considering how much I enjoyed the others.
May be worth reading just to complete the set. But then again maybe not.
May be worth reading just to complete the set. But then again maybe not.
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Reliably fun comic fantasy
2. März 2007
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
Tom Holt continues to publish delightful comic fantasies. His latest novels include a few about J. W. Wells & Co., a fairly typical bureaucratically fouled up firm, which happens to deal in magic. (The firm's name of course points to Gilbert and Sullivan's The Sorcerer.) As this latest story opens, the struggling firm has been bought out. The new owners are a mystery - but business more or less as usual continues. In particular, a new employee, Cassie Clay, is putting the final touches on a deal to save a widget factory, Hollingshead and Farren, at the cost of the owner's soul. The owner's son, Colin Hollingshead, wonders what is going on while he tries to think of a way to escape the boring job he was born to. But then he and Cassie realize, to their mutual disgust, that they are reincarnations of star-crossed lovers, and that for the sake of the universe, they must be together. But they can't stand each other! Will J. W. Wells's love philtre do the trick? Or is something more sinister going on? Perhaps the veteran employees of Wells, perhaps their most reliable workers, Connie Schwartz-Alberich and Benny Shumway, can figure out what's really going on ... It's all quite funny.
Holt has a great time satirizing business missteps, against the backdrop of the Bank of the Dead, and deals with the devil, other traditional magical devices. The plot is intricate and I'm not sure it really makes sense but Holt talks a good game and surprises the reader fairly often. The romantic leads aren't terribly romantic but they are amusing. This isn't a great novel but it's reliable fun.
Holt has a great time satirizing business missteps, against the backdrop of the Bank of the Dead, and deals with the devil, other traditional magical devices. The plot is intricate and I'm not sure it really makes sense but Holt talks a good game and surprises the reader fairly often. The romantic leads aren't terribly romantic but they are amusing. This isn't a great novel but it's reliable fun.
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