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Summary: One of her best books!
Review: This is a great book! Set in 1923 in a nascent Hollywood, Hambly has presented the hectic life of early movie people, and mixed it all up with an ancient evil Manchurian Rat God, and Chinatown in Los Angelas. Her totally charming heroine, "Chrysande Flamande", with 3 little pekinese dogs, which are also Fu dogs, born to fight demons is at the center of this great story. But there is also the dignified, sholarly brown haired Norah, and her new love, Alec, the short and stocky cinematography. The only problem with the book is the truly awful cover, which completely misses the feeling of the book: nostalgia; kindliness; and ugly scuttling evil out there in the dark....
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Summary: Wonderful Story/Warm Characters/Worthy Of "Weird Tales"
Review: With warm & wonderful characters, vast detail about the Hollywood of the Silent Era, and characters that closely resemble actual people from Silent Films, you'd love it.Add a supernatural plot, a cursed gemstone, and a budding romance, & you get a story worthy of the old "Weird Tales" pulp magazine, also of the 20's & 30's. Why isn't there a hardcover edition? And please Ms. Hambly? A sequel? I wanna watch the second reel!
Rating:
Summary: Wonderful Story/Warm Characters/Worthy Of "Weird Tales"
Review: With warm & wonderful characters, vast detail about the Hollywood of the Silent Era, and characters that closely resemble actual people from Silent Films, you'd love it. Add a supernatural plot, a cursed gemstone, and a budding romance, & you get a story worthy of the old "Weird Tales" pulp magazine, also of the 20's & 30's. Why isn't there a hardcover edition? And please Ms. Hambly? A sequel? I wanna watch the second reel!
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