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The Angel of the Crows - the new novel from award-winning author Katherine Addison Hardcover – 17 Sept. 2020

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The latest novel from Katherine Addison, author of the Locus Award-winning The Goblin Emperor.

This is not the story you think it is. These are not the characters you think they are. This is not the book you are expecting.

London 1888. Angels inhabit every public building, and vampires and werewolves walk the streets with human beings in a well-regulated truce. A utopia, except for one thing: Angels can Fall, and that Fall is like a nuclear bomb in both the physical and metaphysical worlds.

Dr J. Doyle returns to London having been wounded in Afghanistan by a Fallen, and finds himself lodging in Baker Street with the enigmatic angel Crow. But living with a rogue angel is not so easy; the pair find themselves drawn into the supernatural and criminal worlds of London, from a man kidnapped by a vampire nest to Jack the Ripper's horrific murders.

Besides Doyle's nightmares, there is the lingering worry that Crow might Fall

"A new Katherine Addison book is a cause for celebration. Break out the champagne, this one's a treat!"
Ellen Klages, author of Passing Strange, winner of the British Fantasy Award and World Fantasy Award

"Remarkably compelling and fascinating"- io9 on The Goblin Emperor

"With its subtle, intricate, fascinating worldbuilding and a hero who succeeds through empathy and patience rather than brawn, The Goblin Emperor is absolutely unique among recent fantasy novels, and it delighted me from beginning to end. I wish I could read a dozen more books set in the Elflands" - Katherine Arden, bestselling author of The Bear And The Nightingale, on The Goblin Emperor

"Each book Addison writes is a highly-polished and gorgeously set gem. The Angel of Crows is no exception." - Fran Wilde, Nebula-winning, Hugo and World Fantasy Nominated author of Updraft and The Fire Opal Mechanism

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500 pages
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English
Publisher

Solaris
Publication date

17 Sept. 2020
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22 x 3.8 x 14.7 cm
ISBN-10

1781088500
ISBN-13

978-1781088500
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Publisher : Solaris (17 Sept. 2020)
Language : English
Hardcover : 500 pages
ISBN-10 : 1781088500
ISBN-13 : 978-1781088500
Dimensions : 22 x 3.8 x 14.7 cm

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KATHERINE ADDISON's short fiction has been selected by The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror and The Year's Best Science Fiction. As Sarah Monette, she is the author of the Doctrine of Labyrinths series and the Locus Award-winning novel The Goblin Emperor; and co-author, with Elizabeth Bear, of the Iskryne series. She lives near Madison, Wisonsin.

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D. Beecher

A very good book which left me slightly underwhelmed.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 August 2020

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Plenty of people are going to enjoy this book. The writing is accomplished, the characters are really engaging, there is a lot to like. I have no quarrel with those giving it five stars.

For me I finished the book with a slight feeling of underwhelm. This book is essentially a Sherlock/Ripper fantasy reimagining. A good one, I especially liked Dr Doyle. But when you think about how many interesting people lived in Victorian/Edwardian London I feel like I'm longing for other stories to be told. So loss of half a star for lack of originality.

Secondly having read The Five by Hallie Rubenhold my view the women the Ripper murdered has undergone a total sea-change. I found myself wincing at Addison descriptions of them. Intellectually I don't expect a writer to read all the books about a thing, but you can't say that to an emotional reaction. Loss of half a star for that.

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EmJam

Clever and engrossing. I could have happily read 500 more pages

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 June 2020

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This is one of those books that you can't stop reading but you try to because you don't want it to end!
I adored The Goblin Emperor and have been checking to see if Addison would write another. This does not disappoint. The characters and the world are brilliantly and deftly crafted. I would recommend not reading too much about it because you will get to page 10 and have a nice jolt of surprise and recognition when you realise what is going on. If you love urban fantasy, mystery novels, historical novels, or just clever storytelling then buy this wonderful book

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Amy Walker

Amazing Reinvention of Holmes Mythos

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 October 2020

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I think one of the first things I should say before getting too much into this review is that I love Sherlock Holmes fiction, so I was going into this book with some tough criteria for Katherine Addison to meet. I wanted a book that would pay homage to the original stories but would stand on its own and be great. Well, I got everything I wanted and more. This book is amazing.

The story follows Doctor J.H. Doyle, a military doctor who is injured by a fallen angel on the battlefields of Afghanistan and sent home to England with a pension. Doyle meets an old friend in London, Stamford, who helps him to find a place to stay, with the bizarre angel named Crow. Now, anyone familiar with Holmes fiction can already see what this set-up is, and yes, it works so, so well.

Crow is fascinated with humanity, and in particular, crime; and as he sees the entirety of London as his domain he wants to help those in need throughout the city and solve crimes. Together with Doyle, the two of them end up getting involved in a variety of mysteries, including the mystery of the Agra treasure, the disappearance of Euphemia Rucastle who appears to have returned home to The Copper Beeches, and the sudden death of Julia Stoner who mentioned something about a speckled band before her death. Amid all of these retelling of classic Holmes stories the pair also hunt for the mysterious killer known as Jack The Ripper.
The thing that really makes The Angel of the Crows stand out isn't just that it's putting a new spin on classic stories, but is making an entirely new world. The book is set in a world where the supernatural not only exists, but are a part of everyday life. Angels exist and look over public buildings. Vampires have treaties with the humans and no longer kill, instead operating the equivalent of opium dens. Werewolves run respectable businesses. And there's more that are only hinted at, such as ghosts, curses, and other spectral beings. Addison spends a lot of time laying out the rules of this world and explaining how things work, and it feels like a very lived in place that could actually exist; and this information is always presented in very natural ways and never feels like an info dump.

It's also a lot of fun trying to recognise certain Holmes characters, and seeing how they've been translated into this new world. Obviously Holmes and Watson are completely different people, but there are occasionally characters who don't seem to have changed, such as Inspector Lestrade. Whilst it's fun seeing these characters in this new environment, I liked trying to pick out the altered ones, like Moriarty or Mycroft Holmes.
The biggest character changes are the main two, and if I'm honest they're the most interesting versions of Holmes and Watson I've seen in years. Doyle has a few secrets, one of which is teased during the first half of the book, with another that comes out of nowhere and changes everything about how you read the character. I'm not going to say what these secrets are, because it would be horrible to spoil either, but I'm definitely going to be reading through the book again to see how it works knowing these hidden twists to the character.

Crow, the Holmes counterpart, is a brilliant piece of writing; mainly because almost nothing is done to change the character. Obviously at first glance this sounds strange, because he's an angel here, but his personality is mostly the same. Crow is just a uncomfortable around people as Holmes, he doesn't understand the complexities of human emotions, he's not always polite, he's obsessive with small things, and he sometimes doesn't know things that others take for granted. There have been some adaptations that try to explain away these quirks as him being a sociopath (silly idea Sherlock) or even having him on the autism spectrum, but these always felt a bit odd. However, him being an angel, a creature that doesn't work the same as humans, who didn't grow up learning human interaction, fits Holmes so well. Crow might end up being one of the best versions of the character ever.

I wish I had more space in this review to talk about how much I enjoyed this book, for the love it clearly has of the source material, how it's bold and brave with that material and makes it it's own thing. I could talk about this book for hours. I fell in love with this world and characters so quickly that I pre-ordered the hardback version of the book before I'd even finished, and would love to talk to the author about the story and characters. If you're a fan of Gothic horror, historical fiction, urban fantasy, or Sherlock Holmes, this book will not only satisfy, it'll blow you away.

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Hippolyta

ok - not a patch on The Goblin Emperor.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 July 2020

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I love The Goblin Emperor - it is one of my all time favourite books and a regular re-read. So I was very excited to see a new Katharine Addison novel. And I quite enjoyed it, but a new Goblin Emperor it isn't. It is vaguely Victorian but I never quite got the hang of the fantasy world of angels, vampires and werewolves. And it just was not engaging enough to make me care about thefallen angels and hemophages and blah de blah. I'm also ambivalent about the characters. I so love the subtle characterisation in the Goblin Emperor but this is much more clumsy and (to avoid spoilers) a major aspect of Dr Doyle's character is dropped into the narrative but never explained or explored. In fact, that pretty much sums up the problem - it is all just a bit thin so that world building, characters and plot just don't gel into a satisfying story. I did finish it, there are some fun and funny sections but it does not hold a candle to The Goblin Emperor. Perhaps fanfic is better left as a hobby and not put forward for the paying public.

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Glorious, fiercely intelligent - essential reading

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 July 2020

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I loved this book. I came to it straight after reading The Goblin Emperor and was in mourning for Maia and wanting more of the same. This couldn’t be more different, but by the end (48 hours later because I had work to do...), I wanted more of Doyle and the Angel, Crow.
So - the writing is as luminescent as ever, with an exceptional sense of time and place. The characters are engaging, and the narrative has more twists than any one should expect to get away with .

The problem with writing any more of a detailed review is that it would be full of spoilers. This is not the book you think it is. It keeps on not quite being the book you think it is while being exactly the book you want it to be.

So just read it. It’s worth it. You’ll be glad you did. And then hope you don’t have to wait long for the next one, whatever world it’s set in.

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