The Sometimes (Green Light Readers Level 1) (Green Light Readers)

by Keith Baker

You wouldn't take Lewis for an immortal cyborg: he looks like a dapper character from a Noel Coward play. And Joseph-short and stocky in his Armani suit, with a neatly trimmed black mustache and beard that give him a cheerfully villainous look-you'd never guess that his parents drew the Neolithic cave paintings in the Cevennes. But what are these two operatives of the Company doing in an amusement arcade in San Francisco in 1996? They're looking for Mendoza, fellow cyborg of Dr. Zeus Incorporated who has been banished Back Way Back. They're also trying to solve the mystery of her impossibly reappearing English mortal lover. Soon they will begin uncovering some extremely hush-hush stuff about what the Company has been doing with the cyborgs it no longer wants in the field. With this fourth book in the Company series, Kage Baker once again takes the reader on a wry, intelligent, and absorbing journey into the future and the past.

• ISBN10: 0151004498
• ISBN13: 9780151004492
• Publish Date: 16 January 2001 (first published 1 January 1999)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 21 November 2009
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Imprint: Thomson Learning
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 298
• Language: English

Reviews

[empressbrooke]

After the last two books in this series merely hinted at a conspiracy within the Company, book #4 is finally dedicated to exploring the mystery. Joseph and Lewis, who we met in the previous books, are trying to figure out what happened to their fellow immortals Mendoza and Budu, among other things.

Strangely, although it provides virtually no answers and heaps on a dozen other questions, The Graveyard Game is completely satisfying. Instead of being frustrated at the lack of answers, I'm intrigued and very motivated to pick up the next book to find out what happens next. According to the front flap summary, though, the next book flips back to Mendoza's point of view - does this mean the answers are further off yet, or is the author answering them by showing another part of the story? I'm looking forward to finding out.