Not many books have moments that both intrigue and disgust me. At the same time. And not many books present these moments back to back with little respite in between for squeamish readers to settle their stomachs. That is to say this book is not for the faint of heart, especially not for those who c...
I'm still not sure about this one. One of the comments on the cover describe it as "John Constantine meets Chow Yun-Fat" and that's not completely unfair. It's a futuristic world, a world with liquid computers (a wonderful sequence) and franchised cities but also a world where the paranormal is cl...
Such a wonderful, intriguing concept - non-Western SF/mystery blended with non-Christian religious archetypes! - hampered by Williams's weirdly bloodless characters. I felt the same way about the other, non-Detective Inspector Chen novel I read of hers, and there's just nothing for me to grasp with ...
Really loved it, but more like four and a half stars. I haven't read many books in an Asian setting, much less urban fantasy. Detective Chen is the familiar world-weary but still hopeful police officer who does his best to help people. Williams took that and turned it sideways in a most enjoyable w...
I thought it was a fun, quick read. There were some problems with writing style (someone mentioned she has trouble building suspense, which is true), but overall pretty good. I'm amused by the fact that Hell has health insurance.
I wrote a good, thoughtful review, only to have the whole thing swallowed up by the internet and disa-fucking-ppear.The gist was: Amazing world, but the scope of the story was a little too big and so too much of that world was shown explicitly instead of by inference, which served to shortchange the...
I wanted to love this book, I really did, but I am only giving it three stars instead of two because of the originality. I enjoyed some of it and hated other parts of it. I'm very frustrated with the author and can't believe it was written by an educated Western woman. But more on that later.The goo...
It is unfair to any author to wander into a book expecting something and then being disappointed when it's not delivered but I'm human and I can't help it. Reading this book, I had hoped to read something like Barry Hughart's adventures with Master Li and Number Ten Ox (Bridge of Birds: A Novel of a...
I thought this was okay. It was interesting to see an Eastern idea of heaven and hell. It's quite a bit different from the view the West has. Having said that, it was a little confusing why random Westerners turned up an Eastern hell. There's a sentence or two about how everyone probably goes to...
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