I guess I will leave it there. Married with three kids and with a successful career as a restaurant reviewer and columnist he has it made. No Good Deed an Apocalyptic Tale. So those are the two big differences. It set a high bar, and is one of the reasons I came back to reading for pleasure after struggling through the study of authors I didn't really like at university. With the right choices you can get Persephone to evict Hekate from Elysium, if you are unsuccessful, she’ll finger Alexios/Kassandra instead. I feel like you have to be british to find this book as funny as the blurbs paint it being, not only in the context of its British humour but also references the author uses frequently. But I suppose sometimes that's just the way it is. 199 likes. Now he feels obliged to help his old friend, and ends up taking him home. I feel like the whole movie was leading up to this lame bit at the end. I myself have an old work friend who, financially etc., is doing a lot better then me with his big house, fancy cars and clothes etc. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Not one POC in this movie. No Good Deed isn't quite a misfire, but it's not up there with his best. Her son even befriends the guy instead of thinking he has ulterior motives. She can be found behind a door in the large, central courtyard. ', The song was translated into 8 languages, along with the musical. As always, it took me some time to come back here and write something about a book. This doesn’t mean, however, that Niven hasn’t stopped pushing boundaries and I thoroughly look forward to seeing what escapades he comes up with next. User Ratings | Interact with the door to trigger a scene. Or the moment where she does “Nessa, Dr. Dillamond,” and then sort of shouts out “Fiyero” while the orchestra is sawing away at one of the motifs. The part where Lance (Jason Deline) gets out of his car and the shot from the ground up and catches the flags and sun is a good camera shot. As for the ending, the movie ends without any real resolution to the antagonist. The novella was optioned for the screen by CC Films with a script has been written by English playwright Jez Butterworth. If you spared Persephone’s followers in the latter quest, Persephone will side against Hekate. I have started this review a few times now trying to think of something positive to say. Note: This option only appears if you listen to the entire conversation between Hekate and Hermes and get detected. The characters are all throughly unlikeable. Staying past this time, or choosing ‘interrupt’ will cause you to get detected. Obviously veering close to spoiler land here, but the motivation revealed at the climax is a thin thing, and it didn't convince me at all. This is the only book of Niven’s that I had not got round to reading yet. I found it interesting how the author painted the relationship between the main characters, and there really is something to be said about the power dynamics we might find in our daily lives if we look a little closer into the interactions we have with people around us. Is this a new direction for this author? An unstable escaped convict terrorizes a woman who is alone with her two children. The novel was published by William Heinemann in 2008 and achieved much acclaim, with Word magazine describing it as "possibly the best British Novel since Trainspotting". During this conversation, Persephone will want to root out the traitor in her midst and Alexios/Kassandra and Hekate will need to try to convince Persephone the other is the bad egg.