Books by Max Gladstone
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review 1: I like the concept of money and contracts being payed with bit of soul. That and the marriage of Financiers, magic and God/dess' of each nations pantheon. The underlying message is real world in that greed and necessity is devouring the world after the Gods War when many of the w...
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review 1: Solid! Max Gladstone's books manage to make magic and worship into the forces that drive and enable a modern society ... but that doesn't quite do them justice. "Craft" continues to be a sort of magic analogue to law practice; this book's set in a modern-day Mexico with a ton of ...
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review 1: I am huge fan of his Craft Sequence novels, so had to read this short story as soon as I became aware of it, and Gladstone does not disappoint.Dark and oddly touching, this story tackles the midlife crisis of a vampire. The vampire has fallen in love, you see, with a slayer nonet...
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review 1: It's damning with faint praise to say that someone depicts the War in Heaven better than Milton; Milton could do (few) things very well, but that section is disastrous. So say simply that Gladstone gives a sense of the sheer scale and grandeur such a concept involves, of the fund...