
Half-Resurrection Blues
Bone Street Rumba, Book 1
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Daniel José Older
First in a brand new urban fantasy series
"Because I'm an inbetweener - and the only one anyone knows of at that - the dead turn to me when something is askew between them and the living. Usually, it's something mundane like a suicide gone wrong or someone revived that shouldn'ta been."
Carlos Delacruz is one of the New York Council of the Dead's most unusual agents - an inbetweener, partially resurrected from a death he barely recalls suffering, after a life that's missing from his memory. He thinks he is one of a kind - until he encounters other entities walking the fine line between life and death. One inbetweener is a sorcerer. He's summoned a horde of implike ngks capable of eliminating spirits, and they're spreading through the city like a plague. They've already taken out some of NYCOD's finest, leaving Carlos desperate to stop their master before he opens up the entrada to the Underworld - which would destroy the balance between the living and the dead. But in uncovering this man's identity, Carlos confronts the truth of his own life - and death...
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Plus his overuse of the word "fuck" got a little monotonous and distracting. At first, I wondered does this writer know any other adjectives? or verbs? or descriptors? non sequiturs?
Luckily, the answer is yes.
As the story progresses, Older's luxuriant use of the English language is one of the main reasons to read this book. I'm not sure what he was after in the first 1/3 of the book, but so many "fucks" came across like a nerdy kid trying to prove he could fit in with the cool kids, but overdoing it. It was almost enough to make me not give a... well, you get the idea.
Now for what I loved. Too many Urban Fantasy books follow the same wish-fulfillment formula. There is always a useless comic relief character that is there for no other reason. Most portray every male character that is not the protagonist as evil, or worthless, while every female character instantly desires the hero (or hates him at first before admitting that she desired him all along). And of course there are the equivalent female wish fulfillment variants where the males all fight each other for her favor while the petty females all hate her.. but everyone talks about how much they all love her... you know the ones.
The humor in this book stems from situations that are naturally funny. So silly characters that behave like something from a Saturday morning cartoon. The main character doesn't suddenly make Road Runner sounds during the most critical, tension-filled scene of the story. Very refreshing. These characters are adults and written for an adult audience. Also very refreshing. The "bad guy" thinks he's the good guy, and just can't understand why someone would want to oppose him. Yes, that fits. That's how real humans behave.
Another thing that many fantasy books don't get, that this one handled well: no matter how outrageous our situation is, human beings tend to behave like normal people while we're in it. An over the top situation just becomes our "new normal", and we deal with problems accordingly. I liked the feel of that in this book. These people were used to their supernatural lifestyle and dealt with the situation like real folks would.
I'm looking forward to reading the next story in the series. Hopefully, the dialogue will rise to the level of the excellent storyline and great characters.
I liked it. A lot. But...
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Great atmosphere
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The story itself is interesting and engaging. The characters and their reactions were believable. Carlos, the protagonist and who we obviously hear from the most, has plenty of depth and I felt all his emotions - anxiety, stress, love, lust - acutely. Kia and Baba Eddie were also very interesting and I hope to see more of them in the next book in the series.
Older's version of the supernatural setting is a refreshing break from the glut of similar backdrops that dominate the genre. I am eager to read more of his work.
Daniel José Older's Narration is Poetry
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I bought book 2 even before I was Hal way through book 1.
My heart is home, even with a supernatural tale that mimics no other part of my NYer life.
Thank goodness for this gift of literature.
His voice and words are home
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It's pure Beat poetry.
Take Jack Kerouac out of the 50's and plant him in modern day Brooklyn in the body of a half-dead Puerto Rican ghostly enforcer, and this is exactly what he would sound like. Older's poetic waxing needs a soundtrack. Maybe 50's vintage jazz. Maybe a solemn Rumba. I don't know but bongo drums for sure.
Don't listen to it like a theatrical production. Listen to it like a spontaneous prose/poetry mashup. And soak it in.
People who don't like Older's narration
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Although I loved salsa nocturna , I loved this much more. Eagerly awaiting Older's next offering
So many twists and turns!
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Any additional comments?
This is a well written book with a good main character. I gave the narration 4 stars, but that was generous. I think the author give a cool latino vibe to some of the dialogue, but the overall story would have been better with a different narrator. Still, a good listen!Unusually good
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dark and beautiful urban fantasy
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Great story, great narration
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There were:
Ghosts, a cool very large motherly type house ghost, ngks (try to pronounce that I dare you), inbetweeners (folks who’d died but weren’t quite dead), an undead council and Carlos who develops an instant hardcore crush/lust for the sister, Sasha, of the guy he kills at the beginning of the book. Ultimately, this series starter has a lot of potential and a very unique character voice for Carlos. Unfortunately I had a hard time really connecting with him. I wasn’t particularly fond of his personality (not that he was a bad guy) but I just wasn’t pulled in by him either. The ancillary characters were interesting as well but none of them particularly stood out to me development wise, infact they all sort of blended together and that left me overall kind of disinterested in the story and world. I think that folks looking for an urban fantasy featuring ghosts should definitely give this one a try because I’ve had a few other friends who’ve read it and seriously enjoyed it.
An interesting thing to note is that the author himself narrates the audio version of the book which for some I think will help add a certain appeal to that version of the book.
A ghostly urban fantasy
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