Literary Matters: Simon R. Green’s Once in a Blue Moon

Simon R. Green has a number of series set in one complicated metaverse: the Secret Histories with the Droods who protect humanity, the Ghost Finders who deal with the things that do far worse than go bump in the night, the Nightside series which is about John Taylor, a PI operating in the secret, rotten heart of London, the Deathstalker series, a space opera of epic proportions, and the Forest Kingdom series which this novel is set in.

The previous novel in this series, Beyond the Blue Moon, ended this way: ‘And so they rode out of Forest history once again, and back into legend, where they belonged.’ That was thirteen years and I assumed that Green had wrapped the series up. Not so it turns out as Once in a Blue Moon but cleverly advances the story a century in the future thus giving us a new cast of characters.

You can read my review here.