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A Man With An Agenda
A Man With An Agenda rated it 8 years ago
The disappearance of a prize exhibit at the Darwin Centre leads to a curator becoming dragged into a secret struggle of cultists, and magic, and the upcoming Apocalypse, all set in a dangerous London running alongside his own.Unlike 'The City & The City', which was a slow burn, 'Kraken' wastes no ti...
feeding the swarm
feeding the swarm rated it 10 years ago
...I couldn't make myself like it, I'm afraid. It felt like a Pollock painting - splashes of pretty colour, very witty banter, nice Neverwhere 2.0 world-building, etc. But the architecture is just not there. No arc, no blueprint. Just a mess of magic without rules. Why does stealing the kraken mess ...
kathleenlcharles
kathleenlcharles rated it 10 years ago
Not your run of the mill MM romance... a tale of horror with some tantalizing tentacle sex thrown in. I'll admit I did some skimming towards the end, not into genuine torture. But it was an interesting tale of small town magical secrets and old fashioned evil.
Jessy's Books
Jessy's Books rated it 11 years ago
I wanted to like this book. It seemed like it contained the type of weirdness that is right up my alley. I expected to enjoy it, but it was a total let down. The characters in this book are utterly forgettable, and the plot was confusing (possibly because I couldn't be bothered to care about what h...
Pitter Patter of Little Thoughts
Pitter Patter of Little Thoughts rated it 11 years ago
Billy is just another guy who works at a museum making certain squids are okay for bottling. But when the largest specimen goes missing, he suddenly gets roped into a dangerous affair involving a completely different side of London that we have never seen before. And as the magic and mystery of find...
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