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This book is made awesome by the setting and cast — it’s full of detail that places it exactly in time and space, in Brooklyn and in the ghost/s of Brooklyn; it’s full of characters with all kinds of origins and all kinds of stories, all of which is supplemented by the kind of details that make them feel real. Mannerisms, foibles, culture-specific ways of speaking or thinking… and it’s never some kind of monolithic culture, but all sorts of cultures in a melting pot, a dialogue. The background o
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I had the pleasure of sharing a reading with Daniel Jose Older on the day this book was released. If you've ever heard him read, you know he's wonderful. He reads to an internal beat, doing voices and adding punch to action that already has punch on the page. I carried his voice with me into reading the book, and rolled straight through it. What a pleasure. His New York feels like the real New York with an added layer over the top. The characters have depth, despite not having a lot of backstory
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2.5 stars.
A half-dead man with no past (killed and resurrected with no memory of life before) works as an enforcer for the shadowy NYC Council of the Dead, removing who- and whatever they consider a threat. He stalks a lushly described big apple populated with ghosts and voodoo priests, smoking cigarillos and hunting with a sword cane, avoiding notice by the mundane folks.
All of which has the potential for so much badassery that it's frustrating when it sinks under the weight of its own moral ...more
A half-dead man with no past (killed and resurrected with no memory of life before) works as an enforcer for the shadowy NYC Council of the Dead, removing who- and whatever they consider a threat. He stalks a lushly described big apple populated with ghosts and voodoo priests, smoking cigarillos and hunting with a sword cane, avoiding notice by the mundane folks.
All of which has the potential for so much badassery that it's frustrating when it sinks under the weight of its own moral ...more
Apr 19, 2015
Mikael Lindberg
marked it as to-read
May 17, 2015
Danielle The Book Huntress
marked it as to-read
