Will you have to work a little to get your head around things a first? Yeah. They mix magic and science and culture and finance in a way I never considered possible before. It was magic and myth and London and faerie all brought together in a clever, cunning, subtle melange. It was a mix of things I didn't know could be mixed.
Twenty-ish years ago, I read Neverwhere and it kinda blew the top off of my head. I bought his books and read them on my trip. And Gladstone struck me as being a very clever individual. A person might be delightfully verbally articulate, but that doesn't always transfer onto the page.īut smart. Someone who is funny in person isn't always funny in print. To be completely honest, this isn't the best way to pick up new books. Because when I meet an interesting author, I like to see what they've written. He'd traveled the world and had interesting stories to show for it. We were both attending a convention in Boston. Set in a phenomenally built world in which justice is a collective force bestowed on a few, craftsmen fly on lightning bolts, and gargoyles can rule cities, Three Parts Dead introduces readers to an ethical landscape in which the line between right and wrong blurs.Įarlier this year, I met Max Gladstone. When Tara and Abelard discover that Kos was murdered, they have to make a case in Alt Coulumb’s courts-and their quest for the truth endangers their partnership, their lives, and Alt Coulumb’s slim hope of survival. Her only help: Abelard, a chain-smoking priest of the dead god, who’s having an understandable crisis of faith. Tara’s job: resurrect Kos before chaos sets in. Without Him, the metropolis’s steam generators will shut down, its trains will cease running, and its four million citizens will riot.
Her client is Kos, recently deceased fire god of the city of Alt Coulumb. A god has died, and it’s up to Tara, first-year associate in the international necromantic firm of Kelethres, Albrecht, and Ao, to bring Him back to life before His city falls apart.
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