Reviews and Comments

The first time I read C M Waggoner's books I read them in the wrong order. That didn't diminish my enjoyment of either book, though. Because they are both set apart by ~30 years, it is quite easy to read both of them independently of each other. What I enjoyed in this book: - the world building with the various cultures and religions (troll & human) in different cities - the sex scenes - the murder mystery - the idea of magic being like a programming language, so that people without magic energy can still write magic parameters - the gender and race ideas in this world

a very entertaining book with so many references to reality that it was sometimes hard to distinguish what has an actual real counterpart (the National Jesus Brunch) and what is fiction (I am not entirely sure the Hos for Jesus "keeping the men straight, the race pure, and the religion Christian" are 100% made up). More hopeful than le Carré's Absolute Friends which is the last spy-novel I remember reading.