Monday, September 20, 2010
Wicked Appetite by Janet Evanovich
Stephanie Plum she is not, but Elizabeth Tucker has potential. Wacky characters and scenarios into the paranormal, Liz bakes wonderful cupcakes at a bakery and has a self-appointed protector, Diesel who tries to keep evil Gerwulf Grimoire away from Liz. Finding herself embroiled on a scavenger hunt for possessed stones, she struggles with the corrupting nature of the charms leading to the stones, creating a chaos of sorts that reads like keystone kops. Will be interesting to see where Evanovich takes this character. Sandy Penton.
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From the author of critically acclaimed The Paris Enigma, and one of Argentina’s hottest young writers, comes VOLTAIRE’S CALLIGRAPHER, a dark and elegant novel set in 18th Century France, where a mechanical genius seeks life for his creations. Please take a look at the description below, and let me know if you’d like me to send you an Advance Reader Copy.
“While the prose is richly reminiscent of Umberto Eco, the headlong pace of this dark fantasy—combining elements of mystery, historical fiction, horror and the splinter genre clockpunk—will let readers swallow the entrancing story in a single gulp.”
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“ … with De Santis, reading a crime novel turns into pure pleasure on the highest intellectual level.”
—Tobias Gohlis, Die Zeit
In VOLTAIRE’S CALLIGRAPHER, De Santis combines beloved tropes of the gothic novel – gloomy castles, invisible ink, dubious lines of ancestry, conspirators in frocks – with the Enlightenment’s favorite subject matter: the automaton. Dalessius (the calligrapher of the title) falls in love with the marble-like daughter of an automaton maker. With the latter’s help, and the irascible counsel of the great Voltaire, he upsets the biggest forgery of them all, revealing that the powerful bishop, who writes drastic decrees from within his fortified tower, is not at all what he seems. With remarkable economy, De Santis conjures up a vivid panorama of Europe during the Age of Enlightenment, as the Dark Ages wage war against modernism, in a novel that is both erudite and cheeky, in turns sinister and hilarious.
PABLO DE SANTIS studied literature at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and subsequently worked as a journalist and comic-strip creator, becoming editor-in-chief of one of Argentina’s leading comic magazines. Most recently, De Santis won the inaugural Premio Planeta-Casa de America de Narrativa prize for best Latin American novel for The Paris Enigma. His works have been published in more than twenty countries. He lives in Buenos Aires.
U.S. Praise for The Paris Enigma
“[A] beguiling historical whodunit…” —The New York Times Book Review
“… a complex whodunit that provokes thought as well as entertainment, on subjects from waterproof shoeshine cream to ancient Greek physics. It fires multiple, intense bursts of crime stories at the reader, some only a page or so long. And it climaxes with serial murders that tie into the building of the Eiffel Tower and the Paris World’s Fair of 1889.”
—Associated Press
“Luminous...a tightly spun thriller...Mr. De Santis effortlessly incorporates important historical events (the building of the tower and the World’s Fair) into his narrative, as well as capturing the turn-of-the-century uneasiness over the emergence of the machine age.”
—The Wall Street Journal
Michael Strong
Regal Literary
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