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S'està carregant… Hammers on bone (edició 2016)de Cassandra Khaw
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. This is what you get when you merge Chandler and Lovecraft and add a contemporary edge. PI John Persons is hired by a ten-year old client to kill the child's abusive stepdad, McKinsey. Persons speaks and acts like the protagonist of a hardboiled detective novel and Khan does a get job of evoking the language and style of noir. But Persons is also an ancient monster battling ancient cosmic Lovecraftian entities - the same Ancient Ones who have seemingly taken possession of McKinsey. The result is a recent classic of weird fiction, a genre-bending divertissement rich in atmosphere and blood ... and tentacles. I'm not familiar with Lavcraftian horror. At least in the sense that I've read none of his works. (Spare me your pitchforks. I'm not much of a fan as far as horror is concerned. Well... Mostly.) I liked the atmosphere and pacing. The constant need to consult the dictionary I could have done without. FINAL VERDICT : TRY IT Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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"John Persons is a private investigator with a distasteful job from an unlikely client. He's been hired by a ten-year-old to kill the kid's stepdad, McKinsey. The man in question is abusive, abrasive, and abominable. He's also a monster, which makes Persons the perfect thing to hunt him. Over the course of his ancient, arcane existence, he's hunted gods and demons, and broken them in his teeth. As Persons investigates the horrible McKinsey, he realizes that he carries something far darker. He's infected with an alien presence, and he's spreading that monstrosity far and wide. Luckily Persons is no stranger to the occult, being an ancient and magical intelligence himself. The question is whether the private dick can take down the abusive stepdad without releasing the holds on his own horrifying potential"-- No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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John Persons is a private investigator who happens to hunt monsters. As a monster himself, he knows how to deal with other monsters. Or so he thinks. When a young boy comes to him and asks him to kill his stepdad because he's a monster, Persons can't refuse. And he quickly finds out that vanquishing this monster may require that he relinquish control of his own monstrous existence.
This book was genre-busting: part hard-boiled noir crime thriller, part horror, part fantasy. It's a quick, short read, and I actually wish it were longer because I wanted to see more of what Persons does; I wanted to know more about the creatures and monsters that he deals with in his life. His existence as a monster hidden within a human exterior makes him a wonderfully complex being, and I wish I could get to know him better. ( )