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Chargement... The Damnation Affairpar Lilith Saintcrow
   Aucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.  ca.bookwyrm | Mar 28, 2023 |    ) wetdryvac | Mar 2, 2021 |  ) barbgarcia1987 | Sep 5, 2018 | Review: Interesting book; makes me want to know what comes next for Cat and Gabe. (  ) DrLed | Apr 29, 2017 | When new school teacher Catherine Elizabeth Barrowe-Browne steps off the stage in tiny Damnation, little does she know what awaits her. Her search for her missing brother has lead her here - but what she finds will be so, so much more... deadly. A plucky heroine, an appropriately tormented hero, and zombies - what more could a reader ask for? Well, it was slightly surprising to discover that this DOESN'T actually feature Bannon and Clare at all - it's just set in the same world. And actually, once started it wasn't a disappointment at all. Less steampunk and more historical urban fantasy, it's quite a ride - hope to see more of Catherine and Jack! ( ) SunnySD | Aug 8, 2013 | aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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The West is a wild place, where the poison wind blows and the dead walk. But there is gold, and whiskey, and enough room for a man to forget what he once was--until he no longer can. Jack Gabriel's been the sheriff in Damnation almost since the town grew out of the dust and the mud. He keeps the peace--sort of--and rides the circuit every dawn and dusk with the chartermage, making sure the wilderness doesn't seep into their fragile attempt at civilization. Away from the cities clinging to the New World's eastern rim, he doesn't remember what he was. At least, not much. But Damnation is growing, and along comes a schoolmarm. Catherine Barrowe is a right proper Boston miss, and it's a mystery why she would choose this town where everything scandalous and dangerous is probably too much for a quality lady like her. Sometimes the sheriff wonders why she came out West--because everyone who does is running from something. He doesn't realize Cat may be prickly, delicate, and proper, but she is also determined. She's in Damnation to find her wayward older brother Robbie, whose letters were full of dark hints about gold, trouble...and something about a claim. In a West where charm and charter live alongside clockwork and cold steel, where hot lead kills your enemy but it takes a blessing to make his corpse stay down, Cat will keep digging until she finds her brother. If Jack knew what she was after, he could solve the mystery--because he was the one who killed Robbie. The thing is, Cat's brother just won't stay dead, and the undead are rising with him... Word Count ~ 95,000 Bannon and Clare The Iron Wyrm Affair The Red Plague Affair The Ripper Affair The Damnation Affair (e-only) For more from Lilith Saintcrow, check out: Gallow and Ragged Trailer Park Fae Dante Valentine Novels Working for the Devil Dead Man Rising Devil's Right Hand Saint City Sinners To Hell and Back Dante Valentine (omnibus) Jill Kismet Novels Night Shift Hunter's Prayer Redemption Alley Flesh Circus Heaven's Spite Angel Town Jill Kismet (omnibus) A Romance of Arquitaine Novels The Hedgewitch Queen The Bandit King Blood Call (coming August 2015) Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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For starters, this is set in an alternate-reality American West. (It's the same universe as the Bannon & Clare books, but those are set in alternate-reality England and really have no impact on this story at all.) As such, there is low-grade misogyny and racism that you would expect from that era. The author does write the book in a way to make it clear that she doesn't approve, but it's still there. On top of that, the plot deals with stopping the undead, and zombie books aren't usually something I choose to read. (I'm still not sure why I thought this book was my thing, even though I mostly enjoyed it.) And to cap it all off, the ending is packaged up so easily that it feels a bit too deus ex machina for my preferences.
Frankly, this is a Western fantasy novel with zombies, and I'm not sure why I thought it would be my kind of book. However, it was a fun read and I liked a lot of the side characters (even though we saw very little of any of them). (