• Au­thor: Paul Dale
• Rat­ing:
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• Au­thor: Marie Bren­nan
• Rat­ing: ★ ★ ★ ★
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Review:

I would read a book by Marie Bren­nan about La­dy Trent go­ing to the gro­cer and prob­a­bly give it 3 stars. This book is not about La­dy Tren­t's gro­cery run, so it gets 4 stars.

• Au­thor: Max Glad­stone
• Rat­ing: ★ ★ ★
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Review:

I am start­ing to wish the mag­ic sys­tem in these books had been thought a lit­tle more. It seems to be a lit­tle too con­ve­nien­t.

In any case:

* Good to see char­ac­ters from the pre­vi­ous book­s! Maybe it's all com­ing to­geth­er in the next one?
* Kai is a very in­ter­est­ing lead
* The idea of crim­i­nal re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion in this book is scary as hell

• Au­thor: Max Glad­stone
• Rat­ing: ★ ★ ★
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Review:

So, there's this guy liv­ing in a large city, south by the west coast, you see, and he's in­volved in some strange thing about wa­ter right­s.

Be­cause he's stub­born and has some in­ves­ti­gat­ing tal­en­t, he ends up way over his head, in the com­pa­ny of big fish, along with this mis­tery gal who may not be what she ap­pears to be.

So, like Chi­na­town (the movie) ex­cept LA is pop­u­lat­ed by mad aztec­s, and cen­tral amer­i­ca was de­stroyed a while ago. What's not to like?

• Au­thor: Max Glad­stone
• Rat­ing: ★ ★ ★ ★
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Review:

CSI: church?

Lots of world­build­ing, done the right way, with­out get­ting in the way of plot. And what a plot. The au­thor has so many ideas that he throws away things that would be, in oth­er hand­s, whole nov­el­s, per­haps trilo­gies. Para­phras­ing:

"Yeah, I left home and climbed a rain­bow to study witch­craft in a gi­ant school in the cloud­s, there I had a fall­ing out with an evil teach­er who was a life-­force vam­pire, so I burned out his lab, and the school's fac­ul­ty then tried to kill me and made me fall from heav­en, but let's not talk about that now, and let's fo­cus in this res­ur­rect­ing-a-­god thing.".

Al­so, gar­goyles, vam­pires, pi­rates, witch­es, wiz­ard­s, zom­bies, golem­s, talk­ing hors­es, and pi­rate-­vam­pires.

Could­n't wait to start the next one in the se­ries.