![]() ![]() It combines items from a long list of things I’ve wanted to incorporate in my own writing (but never did, and may never do, nearly so well), and things that I love reading-darkly appropriated folklore, clever historical revision, an intense and complicated (oh! So complicated) female protagonist, and bare-knuckled recklessness in the face of genre and market tropes, frank sexuality, and gorgeous, spilling-over lyrical prose. I can’t even remember what I must have been purchasing when Amazon threw it out there. It wasn’t given to me by a friend or fellow writer-it came out of the blue-or O.O.T.B, as one of my professors liked to write next to passages of confusing prose. ![]() I never saw Deathless on any bestselling shelves, or recommended by Barnes and Noble’s intrepid staff of hand-written card-writers. And you wonder, too, who these Others are, so you can seek them out, and you can clasp hands and be so glad to meet them at last, at last, at last. One of those reads that hardly lets you up for air, and when it does-or when you go against its wishes and come up for air regardless-you wonder how knew, what strange goblins t hey have working there who put that book on the “Others Who Bought Such-N-Such” List. I’ve just finished the most wonderful book. Not all the reviews I’ll write on this blog will be so glowing as what you’re about to read, but I figured, let’s start strong. Keep me and obey me, the secret said to her, for I am your husband and I can destroy you. ![]()
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I didn't expect a story about a desk to pull off in so many fun directions, including a very cool old school horror vibe, a pulpy adventure sideline, and a gothic fantasy replete with warlocks and portals, all anchored by the more familiar territory of a loving modern family. This book has that in spades - real personality, and a genuinely endearing storytelling voice. But the horror greats, the Kings and Barkers and Jacksons, imbue their stories with a part of themselves. In most books, authors lay down no more or less than the story, often skillfully and enjoyably. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Asked to choose an alias that the police could use, he thought of combinations of the names of writers he loved: Conrad and Chekhov: Joseph Anton. His crime? Writing a novel, The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being "against Islam, the Prophet, and the Quran." 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