The Rook by Daniel O'Malley: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/707964780 (486 page)
O'Malley's urban fantasy opens with a woman who discovers herself wiped of memories and surrounded by a pile of dead bodies. The bodies start to pile up thereafter as she begins to discover her previous identity through a series of letters left by .. herself. It turns out she's a Rook, a key player in an organization dedicated to defending Britain from the supernatural and bizarre. Her colleague include a vampire, a man who can manipulate metal and a quadruplets who share a single consciousness. O'Malley is an entertaining first-time writer whose central character is complex (she is clearly not the woman she used to be) and whose powers are considerable. The mystery gets wound up in a fairly perfunctory manner (after some exciting bits of betrayal), but overall this novel is a great start to a possible series or a satisfyingly engaging and light one-off.
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Monday, December 31, 2012
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What an awesome and fun read. And I'm admitting this as a University of Michigan grad, after reading that the author went to both MSU and OSU. That takes a lot.
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The Rook is one of those books. So if the brief description available on the page or other reviews hasn't swayed you, then at least you can be warned that reading this may ruin other book reading for a while.
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The Rook is one of those books. So if the brief description available on the page or other reviews hasn't swayed you, then at least you can be warned that reading this may ruin other book reading for a while.
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