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Pros
Carter & lovecraft is a police detective turned pi dime novel. The characters of carter and lovecraft are well-drawn. A nice, ahem, twist, on lovecraftian themes.
The story is completely believable and is easy to read. The characters are well developed, the plot is fluid and coherent. Pretty nifty storytelling.
The story of the first book (the second in the series is already out as of 11/17) sets the stage for a multiverse-spanning adventure. The ending is a really great cliff-hanger. Reading the sequel now.
There is a nice level of witty characterization that never gets too cloying. Carter is just sarcastic enough to make you love him. He treats the horrors so subtly, so that they really are startling and frightening.
It's probably the most fun i'll have until someone convinces philip marlowe to investigate robert olmstead's disappearance. Though very different in tone, this story proves to become so strange and convoluted that one cannot help but wonder at nature ... Read More
Cons
The author uses expletives, not just in dialog, but in the narration. I dislike this, but your mileage may vary.
Highlights
Quality
Howard has a lot of fun with the language here
The story kept with the tenets of the old gods yet plied the modern day genre if the detective story
Except for the authors tendency to interject unnecessary big words
It’s not the best of books in any of these classes but the combination works for me
Competitiveness
The story was true to lovecraftiana while deftly sticking a thumb in the eye of lovecrafts racism
This book wildly exceeds lovecrafts own literary ability
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Instead theyll find a wonderfully crafted world rich with both detail and incident and welldefined characters who are far too busy protecting the world from ancient evil to trade quips
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It has just enough hpl to account for the story and it is still a crime novel
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Horrified in parts and sweetly confused in others
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The story itself is excellent but the characterization is where the author just nails it
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Its a rare man who can write a womans point of view accurately and convincingly but the bits in here are pretty dang good
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This is not a book for everyone
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It’s the little touches that count the “lovecraft” of the title is a young black woman so rns an antiquarian book store carter is an excop pi with no clue of any of the mythos and related material
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Ill just say its intelligent and has physical mental and ontological horror and a modest amount of high quality snark
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