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Two Serpents Rise (Craft Sequence, #2)

2015-03-31 00:00

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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?

Three Parts Dead (Craft Sequence, #1)

2015-03-16 00:00

Cover for Three Parts Dead (Craft Sequence, #1)

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.

Get in Trouble

2015-03-06 00:00

Cover for Get in Trouble

Review:

This is a short sto­ry col­lec­tion, so it can't be any­thing but un­even. It's al­so a Kel­ly Link short sto­ry col­lec­tion, so the highs are very high, and the lows are nice.

The Brad­bury-in­spired Sum­mer Peo­ple and Two Hous­es are now up there with The Faerie Bag in my hy­po­thet­i­cal list of mod­ern fairy tales.

Both su­per hero sto­ries bring a mix of mis­tery and po­et­ry to a genre that, let's be hon­est, lacks both, be­ing as de­fined by mythos-in-a-­can as it is.

High­ly rec­om­mend­ed to ev­ery­one.

The Just City

2015-02-20 00:00

Cover for The Just City

Review:

On­ly Jo Wal­ton can make a book about peo­ple talk­ing and in­ten­tion­al­ly not hav­ing sex so much fun.
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