The Angel of the Crows
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4.2 • 78 Ratings
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- $12.99
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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
Thoroughly enjoyable read.
Wonderfully entertaining, engaging. A superb reimagining of the classic Holmes adventures.
Entirely Fresh Reimagining
There are so very many reworks of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories… so many reimaginings of the Jack the Ripper tale. There are even a healthy number of wildly fictional settings in which they (and even their literary contemporaries) are jumbled together, to cross paths in inventive ways. But I have never found any of those tales to be quite so creatively told, in a world so wholly and brilliantly original. Plus, the storytelling featured a remarkably tight plot for a series of shorter tales, all of it weaving together A. C. Doyle’s tales into a vastly satisfying and fascinating character-driven story that at no point felt forced (even though it explores identity in a manner appropriate for modern readers, set in a world that it did not break continuity with). The characters were magnificent, the plot dense and constantly surprising, the storytelling paced so perfectly and done so well… I have so many questions and curiosities about that world and its denizens! I do hope Addison will revisit them in future. And I hope that, as I did in this novel, I pause while reading her other works simply to savor and declaim out loud how much I am enjoying the read.
Excellent and original
Angel of the Crows is an excellent, well plotted, take on classic characters. The twists are notable and welcome. I hope the author revisits this world and these characters.