Books by Michael Reaves and Complete Book Reviews
Michael Reaves, Author Tor Books $21.95 (253p) ISBN 978-0-312-85318-1
What do you get when you stir up the ``bubbling cauldron'' of the ``city of angels and demons'' during Halloween week? Here, you get a series of cliched details and a routine plot. Start with a stake in the heart. Move on to a clove of garlic in the
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Michael Reaves, Author Tor Books $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-85608-3
New Orleans, a town whose every alleyway seems imbued with dark magic, serves as a colorful backdrop for this very busy horror thriller set at the height of Mardi Gras. Six years ago, Haitian sorcerer Jorge Arnez, known throughout the community as...
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Michael Reaves, Author Del Rey Books $22 (288p) ISBN 978-0-345-42335-1
It's Alive and The Silence of the Lambs meets The Stand in this ambitious but ultimately unsuccessful blend of quest novel and splatterpunk epic. The book begins with a bang, as it were: a 15-year-old gives birth to a horrendous winged monstrosity...
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Neil Gaiman, Author, Michael Reaves, Author . HarperCollins/Eos $16.99 (239p) ISBN 978-0-06-123896-3
This parallel universe adventure would surely have been more exciting when its authors first conceived it in 1995; today it feels somewhat like a gee-whiz amalgam of The Matrix
, comic book multiverses and Ender’s Game
. High-schooler Joey...
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