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Canadian author Jes Battis earned a Ph.D. in English and is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the City University of New York. He has published numerous academic articles. Read excerpts of his fiction at Jes Battis’s website.
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Let’s get the obvious stuff out of the way first. All of these paranormal investigator potboilers coming down the pike are more or less the same. It’s all a question of how well each one rearranges the furniture. Some do it sufficiently well so as to avoid the easiest of criticisms, that the book in question is little more than a CC of the latest Laurell K. Hamilton/Jim Butcher/Kim Harrison opus.
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Previous SFF Author: Wayne Thomas Batson
I might say "formulaic" actually.
Your review made me curious, so I looked this book up. Sure enough: Tor. Tor seems to specialize in these…
It's a tightrope act for sure.
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