Wendig delivers another breath of fresh air in Urban Fantasy.
I loved this book, this story. It was because of the characters. They made me love it. They made me hate to put it down.
They were alive, they were real and they had souls. They had emotions, problems, heartaches and regrets. People who made one decision after another and wound up in the middle of a falling empire.
At its heart this story is about Mookie, a broken father, and Nora, a broken daughter; his love and her hate. It's about their pain and what they choose to do with it. Both are only victims of decisions; some their own, some not.
Around them is the Organization, an empire of the criminal underworld that rests on top of the world, and it's beginning to crumble and fall down around the pair's ears. He fears the change, she pushes it on.
Everyone in New York wants a bite of the apple, wants to rise from the ashes of their old world with new found power. There are those beneath the city that want their fair share as well, those who are less than human and more than monsters.
This is a wild ride filled with violence, drugs, loyalties, betrayals, monsters, assassins, the dead, the living, hate, love and charcuterie.
It's familiar, different and new in all the right ways.
I love Chuck Wendig's Miriam Black series. I look forward to the third installment.
This book, however, has made it official.
Chuck, welcome to my Favorite Authors Club.
I look forward to all future projects.
