What I'm reading now
Nov. 15th, 2011 07:28 pmI am currently devouring Zoo City by Lauren Beukes. I am loving the worldbuilding in this book! The story is moving along smoothly too, and it's fun to read about a woman in the "down-at-the-heels PI with troubled past" role. But the worldbuilding with the magic guilt-animals is what really has me hooked. Plus, it's a fantasy detective story set in contemporary South Africa, so it gives me a lot of what I want in urban fantasy without the Modern World=United States subtext (or sometimes explicit text) that comes with a lot of urban fantasy. (Also, it portrays some rather sleazy characters as convincing bad guys without having them constantly calling every female character "bitch" on every page-- something the defenders of the overuse of that term in the new Arkham game might want to look into). I kind of want to write crossovers between this and everything now.