If you like urban fantasy at all this book is totally worth your time. While I don't have a lot to say about this book I've discovered I *do* have a lot of appreciation for it. I enjoy urban fantasy quite a bit, but more often than not I feel like I'm reading the same story over and over again. This...
The voice of the main character Zinzi is well done, but I just couldn't get into the story. It seems most of the plot revolves around her search for a missing pop singer, and since I don't care about pop singers in real life, I really wasn't interested here either. It's also just not my style fantas...
This seemed to me to be a great idea book. The author had a great idea (and the idea I liked, criminals with spirit animals is a rather cool idea, the creation of an othering by way of a visible burden of an animal, cool) but I didn't care for the characters and by the end of it didn't really care w...
Woah. I loved the concept of animals marking who has murdered another person, as well as the little bits of pop culture strewn throughout the book. I felt like the ending just totally snuck up on me in a jarring way. But I loved Zinzi and I'm hoping we'll get more of an explanation in another book.
Zinzi December grew up rich and privileged, but her drug addiction led to the death of her brother and jail time. Now she lives in Zoo City, the ghetto for the animalled--people who are guilty of something so bad that an inexplicable force gave them an animal, which they are connected to for life. ...
While I'm not usually a big fan of urban fantasy, I really enjoy the writing style of Lauren Beukes, and loved her other novel Moxyland. Her female characters are strong, flawed and cynical, but above all realistic and relatable. On top of that, the protagonist in this one has a sloth. Yep. A sloth....
Fun novel highly recommended for those who like their science fiction up-to-the-minute but not overly technical. I'll be reading Beukes's other novel at some point, because this one just popped along. Also, silly me, I was fooled by all the extras into thinking the book was going to last longer so t...
Original urban fantasy. Absent are the usual sexy vampires and lusty werewolves. Instead of an American city, the story is set in Johannesburg, South Africa. The protagonist isn't an ass-kicking heroine charged by some paranormal agency to battle things that go bump in the night. There isn't a love ...
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