The Angel of the Crows
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4.2 • 103 Ratings
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Katherine Addison, author of The Goblin Emperor, returns with The Angel of the Crows, a fantasy novel of alternate 1880s London, where killers stalk the night and the ultimate power is naming.
This is not the story you think it is. These are not the characters you think they are. This is not the book you are expecting.
In an alternate 1880s London, angels inhabit every public building, and vampires and werewolves walk the streets with human beings in a well-regulated truce. A fantastic utopia, except for a few things: Angels can Fall, and that Fall is like a nuclear bomb in both the physical and metaphysical worlds. And human beings remain human, with all their kindness and greed and passions and murderous intent.
Jack the Ripper stalks the streets of this London too. But this London has an Angel. The Angel of the Crows.
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Customer Reviews
Would recommend
The story has several references to past mysteries with the main characters exposing the cause behind the mysterious events.
So much better than it has any right to be
If you’d told me the best book I’d read so far this year would be Sherlock Holmes fan fiction, I’d have laughed so hard my deerstalker fell off. But here we are. “Fan fic” may be a largely (and usually accurately) insulting term, but Addison has a true fan’s sense for and respect of all the things that continue to make her inspiration so eternally popular. The fact that almost all the individual details of the original “cases” have been altered to some extent should feel like some sort of blasphemy, but instead manages to highlight how universal the friendship that makes up the emotional core of both the original stories and this otherwise very modern pastiche truly is.
Thoroughly enjoyable read.
Wonderfully entertaining, engaging. A superb reimagining of the classic Holmes adventures.