Hard boiled noir visits Cthulhu mythos with some surprises. Ending opens up for an interesting series. Mind bender here we come. ( )

I enjoyed this book a lot. Grabs you and holds on. Can't wait to read the next one, ( )

Jonathan L. Howard's Carter and Lovecraft is not a bad book. But that does not mean it is a great book. For those who have read Johannes Cabal, be prepared for something quite different. Slightly more adult in tone and writing style... the story is put together using a handful of H.P. Lovecraft's ideas and sort of updates the ideological stigma that has stuck with his work for decades. There are a few plot holes, or things left unresolved. In the interim I think that is done on purpose because of who Carter is. The idea that the Lovecraft in the story is of black and white blood could be seen as a middle finger to HP's thoughts on racial purity. Someone so bound by the color of their skin that a mixed relative farther down the line insinuates his hypocrisy. Well. None of us know what Lovecraft really thought...we only know what he wrote. And while his imagination was beyond the stars, anyone familiar with his work should be able to deduce that his stance was one based on ignorance rather than hate. The man literally never traveled anywhere in his entire life. But back on topic. Carter and Lovecraft was a fun read. It seems the book ended just as it was getting ramped up. It also seems that there were lots of places for characters to see and many more things to do just as the book was ending.
The overall weirdness of Lovecraft was spot on. Howard really knew how tap on that potentially cosmic miasma that would cause HP to so often get lost. He kept us teetering on the edge of universal folly up until the end. The reader wants to go back to the ethereal drop off even though the proximity to it still threatens to swallow us whole. ( )

If you know Lovecraft’s writings, you will enjoy this book. Good characters, well-written. ( )

Daniel Carter, ex-homicide detective, but now the private investigator is quite surprised when he learns that he has inherited a bookstore in Providence from someone he has never heard of. Emily Lovecraft is surprised and not so happy about it, she is the manager of the bookstore, and have been that for the last seven years since the owner of the bookstore disappeared. She is also H.P. Lovecraft's last descendant. Lovecraft, the man who wrote stories about the Great Old Oles and the Elder Gods. But, that's only stories, right?

If I would put together a list from last year of the books I most look forward to reading would this one be quite high up on it. So of course, I got declined at NetGalley. But, then I convinced the library in my town to purchase it. And, then I waited, and waited, 2015 become 2016 and still I waited. Then, behold, I got an email from the library that told me that the book had arrived and I skipped down to the library to pick it up. Alright, I walked down, I'm not in a Disney movie or a child.

The book was good, perhaps not as good as I wanted it to be, but I guess my expectation was off the roof by then. But it was the kind of book where I took the time to really read it, no fast reading here, but that is also quite necessary. I felt that Carter & Lovecraft is not a book that you just storm through. Or at least, that's my opinion. Also, I had waited so long to read it so I didn't want to just read it in one sitting. The plot is really interesting with Carter and Lovecraft trying to stop a man that kind bend reality at will. A man that can kill you in a car by drawing, without water.

I think my favorite part of the book was towards the end when Carter and Lovecraft really started to work together to stop the madman from destroying reality. And, what an ending. So brilliant.

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