Review: Bleed by Peter M Ball

Bleed by Peter M BallHaving experienced first-hand the tribulations of writing the second book in a series, I was a little nervous awaiting the sequel to Peter M Ball's Horn. I sang Horn's praises in my old blog, for the way it smashed together two genres – faeries and hard boiled detective fiction – and made something new out of them. It's a damned difficult book to describe without making the listener twitch and back off slowly, because unicorns, gritty crime drama, rape and resurrected PIs who are former...

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Published on September 19, 2010 23:43
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message 1: by Sally (new)

Sally You know that whenever you put up a review like this you add to my ever expanding TBR pile, don't you Narrelle?

I trust your taste explicitly and that damned pile is growing at a rate that I'll never be able to get through.


message 2: by Narrelle (new)

Narrelle ROFL. I hope I never let you down with my sometimes eclectic tastes, then. :)


message 3: by Sally (new)

Sally Don't worry on that score. I'm pretty happy reading anything as long as it's a good story, well written.

My own tastes are eclectic enough that Visual Bookshelf once gave me a suggested selection including Robert Browning, Dr Seuss and the Marquis De Sade.


message 4: by Narrelle (new)

Narrelle That's an awesome reading list.


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