This week I am featuring The City's Son by Tom Pollock. I got this book to review from Flux Books via NetGalley. Here is the description of this gritty, contemporary fantasy:
Running from her traitorous best friend and her estranged father, graffiti artist Beth Bradley is looking for sanctuary. What she finds is Filius, the ragged and cocky crown prince of London’s mystical underworld. Filius opens Beth’s eyes to the city she’s never truly seen—where vast spiders crawl telephone wires seeking voices to steal, railwraiths escape their tethers, and statues conceal an ancient priesthood robed in bronze.Beginning:
But it all teeters on the brink of destruction. Amid rumors that Filius’s goddess mother will soon return from her 15-year exile, Reach, a malign god of urban decay, wants the young prince dead. Helping Filius raise an alleyway army to reclaim his skyscraper throne, Beth soon forgets her old life. But when her best friend is captured, Beth must choose between this wondrous existence and the life she left behind.
I'm hunting. The sun sits low over Battersea, its rays streaking the brickwork like warpaint as I pad through the railway tunnels.Friday 56:
It flickered, and blurred, leaving strange after-images: a steam-engine, a squat underground train, a trail of memories, as though it couldn't remember what it was. Its steam-whistle brayed like a tormented thing.
Intriguing and mysterious 56!
ReplyDeleteLove the imagery in the 56! (And, frankly, it's better imagery than what's in my book...and mine's focused on the railways)
ReplyDeleteHere are my Friday Memes.
"I'm hunting", followed by "pad through the railway tunnels" makes me think of an animal stalking through a jungle. Nice word choices. I think I'd like this book.
ReplyDeleteMy book beginning is from SEASON OF SISTERS.