Too clever. Too complicated. Too many characters. Too many strands to keep track of.
Also, quite gruesome in places.
Publisher page: Lost Acre – Andrew Caldecott
Lost Acre – Andrew Caldecott
Genre: Fantasy & Science fiction
False Value – Ben Aaronovitch
Peter Grant goes undercover in the high tech world around Silicon Roundabout, and he, and we, have close encounters with some American Practitioners, a Mary Engine and Rose Jars.
Author page: False Value – Ben Aaronovitch
Circe – Madeline Miller
Titan goddess, Daughter of Helios, Unloved child, Witch, Lover of Odysseus, all I knew of Circe was that she turned Odysseus’ sailors into pigs….
In her marvellous retelling of this Greek Myth, Madeline Miller places the focus firmly on Circe – a goddess with more than the touch of the mortal about her than usual.
Author page: Circe – Madeline Miller
The October Man – Ben Aaronovitch
A novella sized trip to Trier, and a murder investigation by the German Police’s parallel Peter Grant. Plus a couple of river goddesses, vineyards and Botrytis cinerea aka noble rot.
Author page: The October Man – Ben Aaronovitch
Wyntertide – Andrew Caldecott
The second novel in Andrew Caldecott QC‘s magical realism / fantasy fiction trilogy, set in the independent enclave of Rotherweird.
At first glance a typical market town and surrounding countryside setting, but where the study of history is limited to 1800 onwards, and society has gone its own way since Elizabethan times.
We meet many of the characters first introduced in Rotherweird, and some new faces, both fiendish and friendly. And the plot thickens….
One more to go. Hazel’s just ordered it. Magic!
Publisher page: Wyntertide – Andrew Caldecott