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dsrtaoThree Christopher Brookmyre books, all new to me!
(No US publisher. WTF?)
_A Snowball In Hell_
_Pandaemonium_
_The Sacred Art of Stealing_
Stealing and Snowball are, respectively, the third and second books in a trilogy where I have not read the first book. Also I read them in inverse order. Luckily they are fairly self-contained. The heroine is Angelique de Xavia, a Scottish police inspector who kicks arse. Both of the major criminals she faces here are executing clever crimes; one of them is also trying to keep it free of civilian casualties. The world clever keeps coming up; also beautifully complicated, snarky, and charmingly riotously funny.
_Pandaemonium_, on the other hand, is a slasher movie about demons killing teenagers in inventively gruesome ways. Interspersed with this is an intriguing SF story. Overall, it's Doom done properly.
(No US publisher. WTF?)
_A Snowball In Hell_
_Pandaemonium_
_The Sacred Art of Stealing_
Stealing and Snowball are, respectively, the third and second books in a trilogy where I have not read the first book. Also I read them in inverse order. Luckily they are fairly self-contained. The heroine is Angelique de Xavia, a Scottish police inspector who kicks arse. Both of the major criminals she faces here are executing clever crimes; one of them is also trying to keep it free of civilian casualties. The world clever keeps coming up; also beautifully complicated, snarky, and charmingly riotously funny.
_Pandaemonium_, on the other hand, is a slasher movie about demons killing teenagers in inventively gruesome ways. Interspersed with this is an intriguing SF story. Overall, it's Doom done properly.
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Date: 2011-06-26 09:09 pm (UTC)