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nigellicus 's review for:
The Book of Lamps and Banners
by Elizabeth Hand
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
Cass Neary is spiralling into self destruction, fueled by booze and drugs, her beloved camera gone, thieving opportunistically, on the run and desperately searching for long-lost recently-found Quinn. A chance encounter introduces her to an incredbly rare book about to be sold for a fabulous amount, but the sale goes wrong when the buyer is murdered and the book is stolen. Seeing a chance to change her fortunes, she hunts the book, but there's a tech millionaire who wants it for an app that's supposed to cure traumatic memories but instead seems to trigger them and London is filled with neo-Nazis and whote supremacists - as tensions rise and danger threatens she becomes increasingly strung-out and desperate as much a danger to herself as the mysterious killer.
I love these books, Hand manages to make Cass both an anti-heroine whose underlying vulnerability keeps the reader enthralled and invested in her finding some kind of life or redemption.
I love these books, Hand manages to make Cass both an anti-heroine whose underlying vulnerability keeps the reader enthralled and invested in her finding some kind of life or redemption.