A City Dreaming
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3.0 • 2 Ratings
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- £5.99
Publisher Description
Imagine a city within a city, where monsters walk the street and magic fills the night. This is New York, but not as you know it.
This New York is a city of magic and monsters. Where ordinary people live alongside demons and nightmares, completely unaware of them. New York is home to M, a man with a past... and a secret. He knows more about the creatures who call his city home than anyone else in the world. He walks between the two worlds, at home in neither but more than comfortable in both. M is the man the monsters call when things get bad.
And things are about to get really, really bad.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This offbeat gonzo fantasy attempts to mock American consumerism but prioritizes the bizarre at the expense of both plot and humor. The lead, known simply as M, has the power to change reality; he's introduced in a present-day Paris tavern, where he's rewinding a killer's life to erase every trace of his existence. He returns to New York City and becomes involved in a series of adventures, beginning with a foray to rescue a friend from pirates named Rum, Sodomy, and Lash whose secret code word is "Arggggghhhhhh!" From there, the story line, which builds to a dramatic climax involving the entire metropolis, becomes harder to follow. The author takes pains to poke fun at the urban fantasy genre; he devotes one short chapter to explaining that nothing much happened in a particular month, which may raise a smile but does nothing to sustain any narrative momentum. Mixing such sections with stomach-churning ones, sometimes literally so ("He spent the next few minutes vomiting up unbirthed chunks of existence"), results in a listless mess, rather than a clever tweaking of urban fantasy tropes.
Customer Reviews
Fantastic book
A clever, well written sprint through the New York which should exist if the world was a much more interesting place