The Sky Is Yours
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A sprawling, genre-defying epic set in a dystopian metropolis plagued by dragons, this debut about...
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Reconciliation for the Dead
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Fresh from events in Yemen and Cyprus, vigilante justice-seeker Claymore Straker returns to South...
The Cassandra Sanction: The Most Controversial Action Adventure Thriller You'll Read This Year! (Ben Hope, Book 12)
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THE MASTER BESTSELLER IS BACK WITH THE MOST THRILLING, SHOCKING AND UTTERLY COMPELLING BEN HOPE...
The Phoenix Year
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"...from out of the fire, would rise a new order, like the legend of the phoenix. There would emerge...
The Travelers
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SUNDAY TIMES THRILLER OF THE MONTH. "Spectacular." (Mail on Sunday). "Top-tier." (New York Times)....
Mr Churchill's Driver: A Murderer's Story
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Mr Churchill's Driver: A Murderer's Story describes real events, and events that may be real....
Grandville Noel
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Cori June (3033 KP) rated The Dirty Streets Of Heaven (Bobby Dollar #1) in Books
Apr 28, 2021
This book is a supernatural noir type, Set in Heaven and San Judas, California-named after the patron saint of the hopeless, the unloved, and other lost causes. Told in a first person narrator pov. (Think similar to Brust. The narrator is talking to 'you personally'). The characters are phenomenal and the descriptions are great. As this is not his normal writing style it shows and can be a bit rough at some places.
This fast paced mystery is a delight with its unique show of how heaven and hell could work it makes you think. Even though it is about angels it isn't overly religious it also isn't anti-God. There is drinking, cussing, and violence. Yep the angels drink, some even to the point of drinking their Earthly bodies to death.
Heaven's most problematic angel is figuring out how he can survive being stuck in the middle of this ancient battle.
David McK (3716 KP) rated Angels and Demons in Books
Jul 4, 2021
And, like, I'm sure, many others, I actually read that sequel first, only later discovering it was such (although, admittedly, not a direct sequel) and going back to read the first on the series.
This is the one largely set in and around Rome, with a high-tech ticking time-bomb counting down in Vatican City as the Cardinals all meet to elect a new Pope following the death of the previous incumbent of that role. It also makes lots of the (supposed?) divide between religion and science, drawing on lots of conspiracy theories and bringing back into the realms of popular culture that old secret society, the illuminati.
I have no problem with any of that, and I do like a bit of derring-do, mystery and romance, but even I found it hard at times to swallow some of the outlandish scenarios and set pieces of this novel - I think, for me, the icing on the cake was the surviving-a-jump-out-of-a-helicopter-without-a-parachute bit towards the end!