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Bobby Dollar, an angel who has taken part in the long battle between Heaven and Hell, must figure out why there are suddenly an unprecedented number of souls missing from both sides and who summoned a Babylonian demon to kill him.
LongDogMom: Another urban fantasy about angels. Remy has given up being an angel to live on Earth as human but when the Angel of Death goes missing his former colleagues come to him for help.
LongDogMom: Freshly escaped from Hell, a living soul who should never have been there in the first place, looks for those who put him there. A little darker but a similar feel and probably would appeal to the same audience.
LongDogMom: Noir and gritty in a similar tone, Even though it's a series about a vampire instead of an angel I think readers who enjoy one would enjoy the other.
LongDogMom: A human lawyer and a group of angels work as advocates in the Celestial Court for their dead clients, solving their murders along the way in a lighter, cozy mystery way.
LongDogMom: A book set in the Nightside, the secret, magical heart of London, and a search for something called the Unholy Grail with angels who are scarier than many of the monsters that inhabit P.I. John Taylor's strange and gritty world.
Not my favorite Tad Williams book. The Dirty Streets of Heaven is a noir urban fantasy where Heaven and Hell battle for souls in a court-like scenario right after a person's death. Our MC Bobby Dollar, as noir a name as you can get, is an angel advocator. Basically he argues for the good in a person, in an attempt to win them over to heaven instead of Hell. The rules are slightly different than we think we know in our various religions, and Bobby, being a low-level angel, doesn't even know half of how Heaven works. When we visit Heaven in the book, we view it through Bobby's cynical point-of-view, so it doesn't seem as wondrous or heavenly as it might be from someone less cynical. When souls start disappearing, Bobby takes it upon himself to investigate, partially because the first soul disappeared on his watch, and then Hell sent agents after him to try to kill him, so he figured the two must be related.
Bobby was okay as an MC/narrator, but he's not the best character. He's a bit of a misogynist, though he probably doesn't think of himself that way. He's afraid of commitment with his on-again-off-again girlfriend Monica, and completely blows her off after a booty call one night. He then falls for a demon named Caz, the Countess of Cold Hands, a woman we come to learn later in the story, had been horribly abused by multiple men in her life, including her husband, who she eventually killed, which sent her to Hell in the afterlife. Bobby, of course, does little to comfort her, not entirely trusting her, since she is a demon, but that doesn't stop him from sleeping with her. The whole relationship left a bad taste in my mouth because it could have been more nuanced and interesting. Not what I typically expect from Tad Williams.
The story moved along a bit slowly, and the revelation at the end wasn't all that surprising. The story also ends with numerous unfulfilled plot lines, presumably to continue in the next book. I will probably read the next book, but hopefully it will be better than this one. ( )
A good mystery, wrapped up in something that might be fantasy, with a non satisfying ending (probably because sequels are coming). A little more and this would have been a really good self-contained book, but it's not quite there. ( )
That is definitely not my kind of book. But... sometimes for me it is all just about some elements and this book have it. Yes, that someone. Someone in the book that is just enough to finish, like and put next in queue. Sometimes I just need to know what will happen to some characters. I mean if not for that one particular character I would just walk away right from the middle. This is so simple that I fear for my taste in women. ( )
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This book is dedicated to my good friend, David Charles Michael Pierce.
Dave loved stuff like this and I think he would of liked this book too. I hope someday we'll see each other again, and he can let me know what I got right and what I got wrong.
Thanks for being my buddy, Dave. I miss you. We all miss you.
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I was just stepping out of the elevator on the 13th floor of the Five Page Mill building when the alarm began going off-those nightmarish, clear-the-building kindlike the screams of tortured robots-and I realized I pretty much lost any chance at the subtle approach.
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Instead I drank my orange juice straight out of the bottle as I watched the bugs circle the little light in front of god's first house in San Judas, and I kept company with all my ghosts the old ones and the new.
Bobby Dollar, an angel who has taken part in the long battle between Heaven and Hell, must figure out why there are suddenly an unprecedented number of souls missing from both sides and who summoned a Babylonian demon to kill him.
Bobby was okay as an MC/narrator, but he's not the best character. He's a bit of a misogynist, though he probably doesn't think of himself that way. He's afraid of commitment with his on-again-off-again girlfriend Monica, and completely blows her off after a booty call one night. He then falls for a demon named Caz, the Countess of Cold Hands, a woman we come to learn later in the story, had been horribly abused by multiple men in her life, including her husband, who she eventually killed, which sent her to Hell in the afterlife. Bobby, of course, does little to comfort her, not entirely trusting her, since she is a demon, but that doesn't stop him from sleeping with her. The whole relationship left a bad taste in my mouth because it could have been more nuanced and interesting. Not what I typically expect from Tad Williams.
The story moved along a bit slowly, and the revelation at the end wasn't all that surprising. The story also ends with numerous unfulfilled plot lines, presumably to continue in the next book. I will probably read the next book, but hopefully it will be better than this one. ( )