Review Round-up: Flamesong, Sledgehammer and The Gameshouse
Thursday, November 12, 2015
Three recent reads - a vintage fantasy, a terrific new trilogy and a particularly heavy-handed crime thriller.
Claire North's Gameshouse trilogy (2015), with apologies, as I did my frothing fanboy thing on Twitter, but, these are simply brilliant. The trilogy is comprised of three novelettes (novellas? long shorts? maxistories? minibooks?), each with a different narrator, setting and - wonderfully - tense. All three feature players in the enigmatic Gameshouse - a location/organisation for those that gamble, and gamble to win. The outer room is for the games we all know and love. The inner room is for the real players, the ones that manipulate lives and nations.
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