Land of Always Night: by Kenneth RobesonMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
I keep trying Doc Savage novels, and keep liking them just a little... just enough...
The first half of this read like a pretty good action novel. It didn't last, though. Once we reach the Arctic, it's just regular pulp again, with plotless back and forth action.
You get to know the characters and root for them, and that adds a little interest to it. The covers are cool. People I like have liked these books. These inducements bring me back, hoping to find something more in the novels than really exists.
Didn't hate it. Didn't much enjoy it, either, except in parts, and at the end was only reading a couple pages at a time. Recommended for those who already know they like Doc Savage.
(FWIW--it's billed as one of the more popular of his adventures. Fair. I liked it better than some of the others.)
Post script--I bought this copy at a Doc Savage convention I attended with my daughter when she was writing a story and getting video for the event for a journalism class at ASU. The convention was fun. The people were cool. If you get a chance to attend one, I *do* recommend it.
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