Interesting Books
Something More Than Night by Ian Tregillis, review at Bookworm
Blues
Something
More Than Night is a Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler-inspired murder
mystery set in Thomas Aquinas’s vision of Heaven. It’s a noir detective story
starring fallen angels, the heavenly choir, nightclub stigmatics, a priest with
a dirty secret, a femme fatale, and the Voice of God.
Somebody
has murdered the angel Gabriel. Worse, the Jericho Trumpet has gone missing,
putting Heaven on the brink of a truly cosmic crisis. But the twisty plot that
unfolds from the murder investigation leads to something much bigger: a con job
one billion years in the making.
Because
this is no mere murder. A small band of angels has decided to break out of
heaven, but they need a human patsy to make their plan work.
Much of
the story is told from the point of view of Bayliss, a cynical fallen angel who
has modeled himself on Philip Marlowe. The yarn he spins follows the
progression of a Marlowe novel — the mysterious dame who needs his help,
getting grilled by the bulls, finding a stiff, getting slipped a mickey
Angels and gunsels, dames with eyes like fire, and a grand
maguffin, Something More Than Night is a murder mystery for the cosmos.
Sorrow’s
Knot by Erin Bow, review at Fantasy
Literature
In the
world of Sorrow’s Knot, the dead do not rest easy. Every patch of shadow might
be home to something hungry and nearly invisible, something deadly. The dead
can only be repelled or destroyed with magically knotted cords and yarns. The
women who tie these knots are called binders.
Otter is the daughter of Willow, a binder of great power. She’s
a proud and privileged girl who takes it for granted that she will be a binder
some day herself. But when Willow’s power begins to turn inward and tear her
apart, Otter finds herself trapped with a responsibility she’s not ready for,
and a power she no longer wants.
I have
listed these titles in earlier SSS posts: check out my SSS
Books Page for links to more reviews:
Curtsies
and Conspiracies by Gail Carriger, review at Fantasy
Literature
The
Lives of Tao by Wesley Chu, review at the
Little Red Reviewer
Promise
of Blood by Brian McClellan, review at The
Ranting Dragon
Articles
2013 End
of Year Book Survey at Bookish
From the
Ghetto to Literary Old town: Exploring Shakespeare’s Magic at A
Dribble of Ink
How Many
of the Top 100 Fantasy Authors Have You Read? at Fantasy
Faction
Top Ten
Tuesday: Most Anticipated Releases of 2014 at Gizmo’s
Reviews and On
Starships and Dragonwings
Author Interviews
Ian
Tregillis at My
Bookish Ways and Pat’s
Fantasy Hotlist
Announcements
I knew that I was tempting fate when I announced that
I would be launching my new blog Veni,
Vidi, Legi last week. Unfortunately, the bugs travelling through my system
read my post and switched themselves into super mode for the rest of the
weekend and into this week. If they are cooperative I may be able to get the
blog up and running this coming Monday, but I really do not want to jinx
anything by making a promise! :D
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