The Naming of the Beasts
A compelling blend of urban fantasy and crime noir from the critically acclaimed author of THE DEVIL YOU KNOW.
A compelling blend of urban fantasy and crime noir from the critically acclaimed author of THE DEVIL YOU KNOW.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781841496559 (1841496553)
Publish date: January 5th 2011
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Pages no: 463
Edition language: English
Series: Felix Castor (#5)
"Not the sky falling, but the ground opening up under our feet." The Naming of Beasts (Felix Castor #5) by Mike Carey In the Felix Castor books, the gritty, jaded irony of the best of noir/hardboiled meets the precarious uncertainty of a fantastically imaginative apocalyptic world. Carey's pros...
Felix "Fix" Castor has spent the last three weeks drunk. Not just drunk, but falling-down, blacking-out, puking-on-your-shoes drunk. Immediately prior to the decidedly unfun debauch he's just come out of, Fix was unable to keep nefarious forces from undoing the careful controls by which he'd endeavo...
Brainycat's 5 "B"s:blood: 3boobs: 1bombs: 3bondage: 1 blasphemy: 4 Bechdel Test: FAILDeggan's Rule: FAILGay Bechdel Test: FAILIt's been about a week since I finished this book, and I've read a couple of other books in the meantime. I think the reason I've hesitated to write this review is because th...
A series that ends more with a fizzle than a bang. A linked series gives the author the opportunity to play with theme development over time, to awaken the characters (and reader) to larger issues and complexities. Carey's fourth book, Thicker Than Water, did just that by taking the issue of ghost...
I'm so sad this series is over, but this was a good wrap up.
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