Charles de Lint
Paperback | Pages: 384 pages Rating: 4.31 | 5428 Users | 226 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Someplace to be Flying |
| ISBN: | 076530757X (ISBN13: 9780765307576) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Newford #5 |
| Literary Awards: | Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Adult Literature (1999), British Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novel (1999) |
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Lily is a photojournalist in search of the "animal people" who supposedly haunt the city's darkest slums. Hank is a slum dweller who knows the bad streets all too well. One night, in a brutal incident, their two lives collide--uptown Lily and downtown Hank, each with a quest and a role to play in the secret drama of the city's oldest inhabitants.For the animal people walk among us. Native Americans call them the First People, but they have never left, and they claim the city for their own.
Not only have Hank and Lily stumbled onto a secret, they've stumbled into a war. And in this battle for the city's soul, nothing is quite as it appears.
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| Title | : | Someplace to Be Flying (Newford #5) |
| Author | : | Charles de Lint |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 384 pages |
| Published | : | August 1st 2005 by St. Martins Press-3PL (first published 1998) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Urban Fantasy. Fiction. Science Fiction Fantasy. Magical Realism |
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Ratings: 4.31 From 5428 Users | 226 ReviewsWrite-Up Appertaining To Books Someplace to Be Flying (Newford #5)
Urban fantasy with more literary writing and quiet character moments than most, but a plot that was too slow for me to stay hooked. Coyote people and bird people and rivalry and nice guys and mysterious women and plain-named characters like Jack and Cody and Katy and Kerry and Hank that I couldn't keep up with.After devouring "Trader," "The Mystery of Grace" and "Little Grrl Lost," earlier this year, I was hoping for a similar experience when I picked up "Someplace to Be Flying."And while this novel certainly had its moments of being just as absorbing as all of those, I still feel like it fell a bit short of my expectations. It's not that it's a bad story. But the story takes so long for various elements to come together that I found myself taken out of the novel too much. One thing I found missing
The people who become birds, which noone knows about. My first experience with de Lint, this book has a stronger plot, and some very disquieting elements, which nonetheless feel exactly right. Upside-down kind of fantasy. More about people and their strengths showing in adversity, the values of de Lint are very real, despite the magic below the surface.
An excellent story with wonderful characters and a blend of fantasy and myth.
I had fallen in love with Charles de Lint's writing before this book, had read several of his works (though I still have a lot more to get through). I had gotten this off of Betterworld Books on a whimsy, a kind of a "I like this author; it's cheap, and I'll probably enjoy it, so why not?" But I'm so glad I did. If I had to choose a place to start, this would seem to be as good as any (especially for someone like me, used to starting in between a series as at the end of it), but you're put in
Urban fantasy with more literary writing and quiet character moments than most, but a plot that was too slow for me to stay hooked. Coyote people and bird people and rivalry and nice guys and mysterious women and plain-named characters like Jack and Cody and Katy and Kerry and Hank that I couldn't keep up with.
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