I didn't buy anything today but I bought a ton on Tuesday!
Sucks, don't buy it.
Dominican culture x super geekery. Probably the only Pulitzer Prize winner to open with an epigram from Jack Kirby's
Galactus!!
I bolded all the words that give me a boner:
Starred Review. World Fantasy Award–winner Walton (Tooth and Claw) crosses genres without missing a beat with this stunningly powerful
alternative history set in
1949, eight years after Britain agreed to peace with
Nazi Germany, leaving Hitler in control of the European continent. A typical gathering at the
country estate of Farthing of the power elite who brokered the deal is thrown into turmoil when the main negotiator, Sir James Thirkie, is
murdered, with a yellow star pinned to his chest with a dagger. The author deftly alternates perspective between Lucy Kahn, the host's
daughter, who has disgraced herself in her family's eyes by marrying a
Jew, and
Scotland Yard Inspector Peter Carmichael, who quickly suspects that the killer was not a
Bolshevik terrorist. But while the whodunit plot is compelling, it's the convincing portrait of a country's incremental slide into
fascism that makes this novel a standout.
Also I bought a lot of Eric P's comix!
