![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() On the other hand, I felt like the book did a bit too much poking about that: “Hey! This is a book just for people like you! Who like tattoos! And bars! And are into mythology and fantasy! You’re badass and cool! Check it out!” Yeah, ok. I felt like I am part of the target audience for this book. He successfully does some different thinks with the magic shadow-world school of contemporary fantasy that was refreshing. And his author stand in, the main character, gets annoying as a result of that.Īll that said, I did find the world interesting and well written about. ![]() Kadrey is also, in the Cory Doctorow tradition, so sure he’s cool and that his subcultures are cool that he rather looses sight of the actual storyline. Though to be honest the Hell was geographically related to Dante, somewhat. Its Gaiman’s Lucifer and the Lucifer we’ve seen in so many other fantasy novels. Milton as imagined in the hazy postmodern pagan relativistic world we exist in. Oh sure there are a few other versions out there, like Blake’s, but frankly they don’t have the staying power of those two models.īutcher Bird is Milton all the way. There are basically two versions of hell and more importantly Lucifer existent in modern fantasy, and pretty much the western imagination, Dante’s and Milton’s. ![]()
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