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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The Shadow Year by Jeffrey Ford
I read this last night but am only getting around to posting it this afternoon; I have no excuses or jokes to make about that, oops. This ...
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I dunno. On the one hand there are some interesting ideas in this novel, and Cantero's prose sparkles with wit and joy. On the other h...
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So, this was a book that I almost stopped reading a couple-three times. It's not *bad*, exactly, but it's a weird dissonant tonal ...
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This is an actual Horror novel. Not a big shock, reading the blurbs, but the jacket text makes it seem vaguely Mystery/Technothriller-ish, a...

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