User Profile

I quite enjoyed this, the story moves along, it's varied and intricately drawn with gritty details. I felt at times like i was reading Dashiell Hammett, but with ghouls and elves and goblins. i think some of the subtleties of the world Addison creates were lost on me because i haven't read the Goblin Emperor. (can't say i wasn't warned.) I liked the names and titles of the characters; they have a nice musical ring to them, but again, i felt a like i was in the deep end of the pool trying to keep all of them straight in my mind. I think it'd be worth reading again this after i read the GE.

First of all, I love an epistolary novel. can it still be epistolary if the letters are all one way? i think so... Also nourishing to the music nerd in me. At one point it made me think of Pynchon, though i'm not really into Pynchon. something about the pop-mysticism that runs through the story.