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by Simon R. Green John Taylor lives on the Nightside - a city within the city of London, if you can slip between dimensions. Nightside is an "anything goes" kind of town where human beings mix with virtually any fantasy creature you can imagine - fairies, ogres, demi-gods, monsters, magicians, and the reanimated dead all play a part. In this Nightside outing, the city is in danger of destruction by John Taylor's mother, who is none other than Lilith, Adam's mythical first wife. Turns out Lilith created Nightside as a place where creatures could dwell outside the authority of either heaven or hell - but she's disappointed in what Nightside's become and wants to destroy it and recreate it ...and everything in our world along with it. John Taylor is both a part of her plan, and the only hope for preventing it. The novel is very dark and very violent - more horror than fantasy -- but compelling in its unusual look at human motives and human philosophy. It also moves very fast with almost breakneck plot twists and turns. I found myself looking up Green's other novels - I think I'll take another walk on the Nightside. It's an interesting place, if you don't mind the entrails. |
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