Reviewed again (a while ago...)
Aug. 23rd, 2011 07:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceElizabeth Bear reviewed Desdaemona in "Realms of Fantasy", which I can't link to as the contents are not online; I've only just seen it, because ditto ditto. And I can't cite the whole thing, because, y'know. Ditto ditto.
But I can quote, for purposes of fair use; and she says:
This is true modern urban fantasy, complete with beautiful dangerous women, lords of Hell and Earth, chase scenes, fight scenes, unrelenting action, and the mystery of a disappearing girl.
... The prose is impeccable, his protagonist a perfectly believable almost-immortal seventeen-year-old, and the book's theme of avoidance of the inevitable nicely developed.
So yay. Impeccable, she said. I could live on that for a week.
But I can quote, for purposes of fair use; and she says:
This is true modern urban fantasy, complete with beautiful dangerous women, lords of Hell and Earth, chase scenes, fight scenes, unrelenting action, and the mystery of a disappearing girl.
... The prose is impeccable, his protagonist a perfectly believable almost-immortal seventeen-year-old, and the book's theme of avoidance of the inevitable nicely developed.
So yay. Impeccable, she said. I could live on that for a week.