Wrapped the last couple-hundred pages of this after gaming tonight. It started a little slowly, a little dryly, but it got moving the last third or so--and some of the wit and humor I remembered from *Ancestral Night* appeared. It's been a couple-three years since I read that novel, and I don't remember much of it, but this novel stands more than well enough on its own.
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Tell the Machine Goodnight by Katie Williams
This is an interesting little novel, more literary than anything else--at least as I see it--though there's definitely some SF-adjacen...
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A beautiful novel about life as a mobster (in 1940s Tampa) and all the contradictions and complications of it. Lehane clearly has an ear f...
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This is early Vachss, all taut and violent, more than a little murky to my mind. It is not good to be a sexual offender in a Vachss novel....
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Well, this was a bit of a disappointment. Not *horrible*, but a bit bland. and with stakes that in the end seemed abruptly lower--in the s...

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