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City of Last Chances was a perfectly good book, which I enjoyed but cannot say bowled me over. House of Open Wounds, by contrast, may be one of the fin
City of Last Chances was a perfectly good book, which I enjoyed but cannot say bowled me over. House of Open Wounds, by contrast, may be one of the finest fantasy novels I've read in years. It carries over only one character from the first book; the lapsed priest Yasnic, follower of a God of healing whose healing lasts only so long as the recipient refrains from violence. Yasnic ends up working in a military field hospital. You can imagine how well that goes down. Without going into details, I will say that this book does one of the things I love most: it builds towards an ending which follows perfectly from the things you have learned about the characters and the situation they are in, and yet which absolutely blindsided me. The setting is as vivid as it was in City of Last Chances, but enhanced by our opportunity to zoom out a little from the troubles of a single city. The characters are vivid and compelling, even the ones who are pretty awful people. The prose is sharp and evocative. I truly cannot think of a bad thing to say about it. The closest I can come is to say that it is a fairly grim book. A great deal of suffering is described in quite graphic detail, and if that troubles you then it may not be your cup of tea. But for my money, the book manages to tread the line of being gritty without being bleak , and I never found it tiring as I have with some other books.
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This was a book which started better than it finished. The tone and vibe were great! It did a really good job of feeling like it was riffing on tradit
This was a book which started better than it finished. The tone and vibe were great! It did a really good job of feeling like it was riffing on traditional noir movies. The problem is that it fell apart towards the end. (view spoiler) [The protagonists don't actually solve the goddamn case, they just get told the answer! (hide spoiler) ] Plus, after the actual denoument proper, the writer shoves in a little "BUT CONFLICT BREWS IN CASE I WANT TO WRITE A SEQUEL!" coda, which I find irritating on principle.
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