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Tourniquet: Tales from the Renegade City (Paperback)

by Kim Lakin-Smith (Author)
4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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  • Paperback: 244 pages
  • Publisher: Immanion Press (21 May 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1904853358
  • ISBN-13: 978-1904853350
  • Product Dimensions: 21.4 x 14 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 151,979 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Renegade City. Futurist Gothika. Mecca of the damned. Where uber rock-band, Origin, is deified and the world's dark sub-cultures coexist under the umbrella faith of 'Belief'. But Roses, the great, Gothic messiah is dead, the tribes are in turmoil, and Renegade's own home-bred rebels, the Drifters, are quickly becoming a law unto themselves. The last thing that Druid, Origin's drummer and reclusive high lord of the Drathcor, wants to do is hunt his brother's killer, especially since he's not so sure of foul play, or even the purity of his motives. Against all of his expectations, however, he is soon embroiled with the underbelly of dissension, dirty politics, and a non-believer as jaded with Renegade's great and secret show as he is - a black-eyed girl called Jezebel. Druid is tasked with saving the whole city. Street punk, Jezebel will settle for saving her brother. Ever since Harish got in touch with his inner-animal and left her with the scars to prove it, she has made it her quest to return him to the fold. One bleak winter's night, she succeeds in tracking him to the festering Gothic ruin of the south watchtower, home to the very same ghosts that Druid is chasing, and Harish's new family, a biker's chapter of Skinwalkers. Trouble is, they're a violent breed. Joining a black parade of freaks, geeks, and greebos, this living god and living-dead girl find their paths interlinked for a series of cataclysmic events that will tear at mutual bonds, unmask fresh hate, and forge new breeds of magick.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Darkest Fantasy, 9 Jun 2007
This is not your typical fantasy but it draws on the traditions with its main character's quest.
Renegade City was created by a rock band, it is a place where outsiders can go to belong, not by becoming one of the crowd but by embracing their differences and carving their own niche. The four main tribes live side by side but now the City itself is threatened, either from the outside or from within.
Its 'God' is dead, Roses has been slain and his brother Druid must find out what happened, fighting his way through his own dark grief to discover who or what threatens Renegade.
He is helped and hindered on his path by the varied inhabitants of the city, including a young thief who takes it on himself to become Druid's guide and a mysterious stranger with attitude who is on a quest of her own.
Follow his path through the Skinwalkers lair and the land of the Fae as he meets the inhabitants of the city he helped create.

Based on a Nottingham not of the future or the past but somewhere alongside this is a must read for anyone who knows they don't belong, or wishes they didn't!
Step inside the city of your dreams...and your nightmares...

The city is brilliantly drawn, the descriptive prose leads you through the dark streets like a magnet pulling and fills you with anticipation...who will Druid meet round the next corner and to what strange corner of this land will he travel next? The characters are intriguing; who is the mysterious Angel, what is his purpose and why are the Skinwalkers afraid? The dialogue flies with consumate ease, deftly building each character from within and leading you into the lives and minds of the inhabitants of Renegade City.

Eagerly awaiting the next installment...
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5.0 out of 5 stars A legend in the making., 4 Jul 2007
By R. Mackellar (UK) - See all my reviews
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In a city such as Renegade City, you couldn't hope for a better guide than Kim Lakin-Smith. She's created an alternate version of a Nottingham that could easily be. From the sharp dialogue to the pop culture references to the general sideshow freak population it had me hooked from the words "Chapter 1" Those who live in the night will love it.

Looking forward to the next book.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A tourist's guide to Renegade, 1 Aug 2007
By Stephanie Carruthers (Tierra del Fuego) - See all my reviews
This novel is being marketed mainly at the type of reader who might buy a house off-plan, or more likely move into a squat, in the new Nottingham: those who, in their own opinion at least, shoplift the right clothes to finance the right drug habit, and whose tattoos have been spelling out the umlaut-strewn names of the right bands since before they were famous. But it deserves a wider audience. You may feel, like me, that a story set against a background suggestive of Mad Max at a Lordi gig in Gormenghast would not normally be your cup of tea, flagon of gin or chalice of blood, but don't be put off. Book yourself in at the Travelodge on the edge of town, then it's all aboard the heavily-armoured sightseeing bus (with two SAS veterans riding shotgun). It's the quality of the pre-recorded commentary on your headphones which will make you glad you braved the trip. Poetic passages such as "Set against the great jets of flamingo pink and orange fire that danced filmily in the distance, the many bonfires littering the sloping bank like beautiful soft phoenix eggs, and a landscape hand-inked by Giger, she resembled a child lost amid the junk and flames of Judgement Day." And there's humour too: how can you resist a chapter which begins "That a woman of a certain age, whose brown eyes held the gleam of hard-wrought know-how and whose lips were a painted dry red streak, could propel a fish-paste sandwich with such accuracy and at such velocity, was nothing short of a modern wonder." ? The author probably won't change your view that the tribespeople should grow up, get their hair cut and get proper jobs, but Renegade is still worth a detour, for even the tweediest of travellers.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A funked-up fairy tale for the dark at heart....
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