Love is the Review
Nov. 5th, 2013 06:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bluegargantuaHey,
So a couple days ago I finished up Love is the Law by Nick Mamatas. Mr. Mamatas did a Hunter S. Thompson/H.P. Lovecraft mashup which I rather liked and his new book has an equally arresting presmise. It's 1989 and as the Berlin Wall comes down Dawn, a teenaged communist punk and Hermetic mage has just found her mentor murdered in his home.
So as Dawn tries to track down who murdered her mentor, the book discourses on the intersection between communist ideology, punk rock aesthetics and Hermetic philosophy (although it never takes a long, deep dive). It makes for a fun read and there's a deliberate "Harriet the Spy" thread running through all of it as well.
In the end, it's a something of a horror novel, but it's not a monstrous, supernatural, horror. It's more of a quiet, bleak horror that pushes the reader to reconsider the events of history and where we are and where we're going. Not a pleasant read, but an entertaining one.
later
Tom
So a couple days ago I finished up Love is the Law by Nick Mamatas. Mr. Mamatas did a Hunter S. Thompson/H.P. Lovecraft mashup which I rather liked and his new book has an equally arresting presmise. It's 1989 and as the Berlin Wall comes down Dawn, a teenaged communist punk and Hermetic mage has just found her mentor murdered in his home.
So as Dawn tries to track down who murdered her mentor, the book discourses on the intersection between communist ideology, punk rock aesthetics and Hermetic philosophy (although it never takes a long, deep dive). It makes for a fun read and there's a deliberate "Harriet the Spy" thread running through all of it as well.
In the end, it's a something of a horror novel, but it's not a monstrous, supernatural, horror. It's more of a quiet, bleak horror that pushes the reader to reconsider the events of history and where we are and where we're going. Not a pleasant read, but an entertaining one.
later
Tom
