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Lovecraftian urban fantasy, but it's Lovecraft with all the worst exceses taken out. Beautifully written and brilliantly paced.
When Liz Drake's best friend vanishes, nothing can stop her nightmares. Driven by the certainty he needs her help, she crosses a continent to search for him.
She finds Blake comatose in a Vancouver hospital, victim of a mysterious accident that claimed his lover's life--in her dreams he drowns. Blake's new circle of artists and mystics draws her in, but all of them are lying or keeping dangerous secrets. Soon nightmare creatures stalk the waking city, and Liz can't fight a dream from the daylight world: to rescue Blake she must brave the darkest depths of the dreamlands. Even the attempt could kill her, or leave her mind trapped or broken.
And if she succeeds, she must face the monstrous Yellow King, whose slave Blake is on the verge of becoming forever.
- Sales Rank: #1182355 in Books
- Published on: 2015-05-12
- Released on: 2015-05-12
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.75" h x .70" w x 5.00" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 256 pages
About the Author
Amanda Downum lives in Austin, Texas. She is the author of the Necromancer Chronicles--The Drowning City, The Bone Palace, and Kingdoms of Dust--published by Orbit Books. Her short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Realms of Fantasy, Weird Tales, and in the anthologies Lovecraft Unbound and A Fantasy Medley 2. She has seen the Yellow Sign.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Through Dangers Untold and Hardships Unnumbered, I Have Fought My Way Here
By Lisa Wintler-cox
This is the first book I've read of this author so I can't speak to her other works, but I enjoyed this book. I wonder if--number of books published aside--she's coming closer to making a leap forward in her writing ability. I base this on how the quality wavered, but the best bits were very, very good. Another reviewer called it muddled but I didn't feel that at all. At her best, her descriptions were unique to herself and lyrical.
It did have some aspects I see a lot in modern horror/fantasy/weird fiction that I very much dislike, but even some of these were less offensive and even enjoyable in the way she handled them. For instance; I had to look up some of the words she used. To completely and blatantly brag, I have a very large vocabulary *cough* 99% percentile *cough* and seldom have to look up words. But the words she chose added to the feel of the story and seemed like valuable acquisitions--gifts to me if you will. She didn't call anything gibbous or squamous; her vocabulary is larger and further reaching than her influences. She's a loud, proud Word Geek and uses it well.
Speaking of influences, it draws on numerous sources--"The King in Yellow" (obvious from the cover), Sherlock Holmes, the Lovecraftian Mythos, "Labyrinth", Greek myth and mystery cults among them (hello, the artist's name is Blake...think William Blake). Sometimes it took me out of the book a bit when one of these references rolled by; but I found myself smiling and not often rolling my eyes.
Several of the characters are Queer in one way or another--and while this seemed forced it didn't feel as forced as it sometimes does. I particularly liked the way Liz and Blake's sexuality is established. It makes their relationship a sudden puzzle to solve which was way more compelling than simply telling what was going on.
Downsides:
The book does rush towards the conclusion as if she was eager to be done.
The progression of each character's exhaustion, anxiety, pain or illness often beggars belief--it gets turned to 11 way too early and stays there unable to go any higher. Better pacing and more varied ways of manifesting symptoms would be good. Again, sometimes it was very well done, but these moments sort of stood out.
The characters need more differentiating. I liked how occasional notes in their personalities and physicalities would be hit upon but not belabored. More of that please.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
The best World of Darkness game you can imagine, only better.
By Orrin Grey
Imagine the best World of Darkness game you can think of. Now strip out the mythology and replace it with equal doses of Lovecraft and Chambers, as filtered through the delightful kaleidoscope of Amanda Downum's own personal vision, and what you're left with is an urban fantasy that owes more to Clive Barker than to Kim Harrison.
The best parts of Dreams of Shreds and Tatters are probably when the novel is repurposing Lovecraft and Chambers, mixing them with Greek myth to create a cocktail that's often headier than its component parts. It's rare enough to find a novel that engages at all with Lovecraft's dreamlands, rarer still to find one that does so to such great effect, while still remaining its own creature. The descriptions of Carcosa alone are worth the price of admission.
Before writing this, I skimmed some of the other reviews on Goodreads, and one of the complaints I saw repeated was that people felt lost, disconnected, as if there was stuff going on that they didn't understand. Maybe this is just an indication of what I'm looking for that's different from other readers, but I loved the intricacies of this book. The competing factions of mages, the vying supernatural entities, the various cabals and sub-plots that were never fully resolved. The sense, ultimately, that what we were seeing was a small part of a vastly--perhaps infinitely--larger picture. A very personal story against a cosmic backdrop.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
I took my sweet time in reading it… so by now the book ...
By Yzabel
[NOTE: I received an advanced copy of this book through NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review.]
Granted, I took my sweet time in reading it… so by now the book has been out for quite a few months.
Overall an interesting experience, though I expected more out of it. I’ve been fascinated by the original work behind this, The King in Yellow, for a couple of decades, from the weight it bore in Lovecraft’s works to the stories by Robert Chambers that actually inspired it. Simply suggest one nightmarish yet terribly beautiful and sublime (in a Burkian sense) city, and I will think “Carcosa”. And while we don’t have a play here, we do have art, including the painting of a door.
Mostly I liked the descriptions, especially of what happened in dreams and how some people in Vancouver were affected. Liz the dreamer, chasing after her friend Blake to bring him back from his coma. Blake, lost in a place he doesn’t understand, where pain and promises of eternal pleasure tempt him both. Rainer and his circle of artists who dabble in magic too potent for them. Rae and other people addicted to mania, a dream-inducing drug that does just that, and more, turning them into zombie-like creatures desperately wanting to taste the real dream. Above them all, the shadow of the King in Yellow, watching from his throne, and the Twins, waiting for an opening. Waiting for, yes, a door.
Such imagery I found quite fascinating, even though I admit it didn’t extend to the actual Vancouver (rain and cold is standard weather where I live), and that I found myself eagerly waiting for the oneiric dreams, the ones involving Liz seeking Blake in the strange streets, corridors and rooms in Carcosa, under inhuman skies. Those were the most interesting scenes for me. Also some other mysteries, such as Lailah and the two other “jackals”, which may or may not be akin to certain hounds living beyond the folds of time and space, but…
…But that’s one of the problems that prevented me from enjoying this story more: a lot of side stories and hints that made the characters more enjoyable, and paradoxically were really frustrating, as they’re not resolved in the end. Alex, for instance: his past involvment with Samantha was brushed upon, where it would have deserved more, considering the sequels it left him with. The artists, too: running from a Brotherhood, rivals of another wannabe sorcerer, the beginning of a strange relationship where Rae was concerned… yet all of this collided a bit too fast (almost in a chaos that may have been intended to mirror the circumstances everybody was thrown in, only it didn’t work that well). Such subplots deserved either more developement, or not to have been included at all, as the middle ground didn’t feel so satisfying. More answers as to who was what and what was who would have been appreciated. Where does Liz’s power come from? What about the memories she sacrificed, would those come back to bite her later? What exactly is Lailah? What role did Seker play, apart from being some deus ex machina?
Also, a lot of the characters had a sort of “hype” edge bordering on pedantic, as if they were trying too hard—including the asexual relationship thrown in there (are Liz and Alex happy that way? Because Alex sure doesn’t seem to be, not that much). I’m all for various kinds of relationships instead of the usual, often bland typical ones, but something didn’t quite fit here.
I still liked this story, mind you. I just expected more out of it, I guess.
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