Monday, May 12, 2008

Trial Of Flowers - Jay Lake

Jason and the Boxodwarfs.

or

Dunnyman delving Imago shortening sequence sacrifice.

In a rather strange city - one that is definitely of the New Weird variety, three men form a strange alliance of sorts because they can see very bad things are likely to happen in the future. Old Gods coming back, apparently not good at all.

These three are a dwarf, a business type, and a not-at-the-moment layabout lawyer.

Some old political legislation is used to challenge the status quo, as well as the leverage of an invading army that would like to do away with them.

Cults, gangs, cameleopards, blind child monsters, devil dogs, guns, gamblers and more.

Definitely not one for the squeamish. The dwarves here are formed in the Japanese torture-and-bonsai variety, not the born under mountains and hang out with hobbits type.


4 out of 5

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