I was privileged to be asked to do an advanced review of Tad Williams new book The Dirty Streets of Heaven.SYNOPSIS:
Bobby
Dollar has a secret. Actually he’s got a ton of them. The most important one is
that his real name’s Doloriel and he’s an angel. Not an important angel, maybe,
but a rough-and-tumble guy who’s always done his part in the long cold war
between Heaven and Hell.
But
now he’s stepped into the middle of something that’s got both sides very
nervous — an unprecedented number of missing souls. And if that wasn’t enough,
someone has summoned a truly unpleasant Babylonian demon that’s doing its best
to track him down and rip him to pieces. Also, his opposite number on the case
is arguably the world’s sexiest she-devil, and Bobby has feelings for her that
Heaven definitely does not allow.
MY FAVORITE QUOTE:
" I found Sam sitting in the open doorway of his room pulling his loafers on. I dropped down beside him because I wanted to tie on my own shoes properly. I had a gun, yes, but no socks, no flashlight, no shirt and no wallet. It's hard to be prepared for a major explosion in your hotel, but I'd definitely dropped the ball."
What I liked:
The characters. They are well developed and well rounded. You love the good guys, and it is obvious who the good guys are but they are not with out flaws themselves. The bad guys are really well created and are easy to identify but are not with out their appeal.
What I loved:
I loved that this is another one of his suck zone books! You open to the first page and you are sucked in! The story is so rich and fun that you get sucked in from the very first word! When I started to read this book my worst fear becomes...WHAT IF I DIE BEFORE I FINISH READING THIS BOOK? Truly for me Tad has once again created something new and fresh. There really is no comparison to any other book on the market, including his own. I know this because I have read everything that he has written. The best I can do is to say the feel of the flow of the story is similar to The War of the Flowers. The Dirty Streets of Heaven has a unique feeling to the story line. I love how he comes up with the new concepts and a fresh perspectives in his story telling.
I highly recommend this book to a scifi/fantasy reader, but due to cussing in the book I would say those over 17.
AUTHORS BIO:
Former singer, shoe-seller, radio show host,
and inventor of interactive sci-fi television, Tad Williams is now a full-time
writer. His 'Memory, Sorrow and Thorn' series established him as an
internationally bestselling fantasy author. The series that followed,
'Otherland', is now a multi-million-dollar MMO launching in 2012 from
dtp/realU/Gamigo. Tad is also the author of the fantasy series, the
'Shadowmarch' books; the stand-alone Faerie epic, 'The War of the Flowers'; two
collections of short stories ('Rite' and 'A Stark and Wormy Knight'), the
Shakespearian fantasy 'Caliban's Hour' and, with his partner & collaborator
Deborah Beale, the childrens'/all-ages fantasy series, the 'Ordinary Farm'
novels. Coming in September 2012 are the Bobby Dollar novels, fantasy thrillers
set again the backdrop of the monstrously ancient cold war between Heaven and
Hell: the first is 'The Dirty Streets of Heaven.'
Tad
is also the author of 'Tailchaser's Song': his first novel spawned the subgenre
of cats and fantasy that we see widely today. 'Tailchaser's Song' is currently
in preproduction as an animated film from Animetropolis/IDA.
**as a reviewer I received a free advanced copy of his book The Dirty Streets of Heaven, however I have received no payment or compensation to do this review.
