Abigail Irene Garrett drinks too much. She makes scandalous liaisons with inappropriate men, and if in her youth she was a famous beauty, now she is both formidable—and notorious. She is a forensic sorceress, and a dedicated officer of a Crown that does not deserve her loyalty.
She has nothing, but obligations.
Sebastien de Ulloa is the oldest creature she has ever known. He was no longer young at the Christian millennium, and that was nine hundred years ago. He has forgotten his birth-name, his birth-place, and even the year in which he was born, if he ever knew it. But he still remembers the woman who made him immortal.
He has everything, but a reason to live.
In a world where the sun never set on the British Empire, where Holland finally ceded New Amsterdam to the English only during the Napoleonic wars, and where the expansion of the American colonies was halted by the war magic of the Iroquois, they are exiles in the new world—and its only hope for justice.
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Product ReviewLiked the setting a lot, less keen on the stories. I didn't find them hanging together into much of an overall narrative arc, and I don't think the mystery genre works well when the "rules" aren't laid out in advance, i.e. when the "solution" is always some random magical rabbit pulled out of the auctorial hat.
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Product ReviewNew Amsterdam is a blend of steampunk, forensic magic, and gothic vampire romance
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Product ReviewA fun collection of short stories set in an interesting alternate universe (and so, of course, it opens aboard an airship). It would be nice to see a bit more of the non-European cultures - what would the First Naitons or the Aztecs have been like if they had never been conquered? I'll hope for a follow-up collection.
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Product ReviewI thought the book was a lot better than it had sounded when I read the description. If it hadn't been in the bundle, I probably wouldn't have bought it, but now I'm glad I did. Elizabeth Bear managed to take gothic fantasy and blend it with a steampunk atmosphere to create a fascinating read. I've ordered the sequel from Subterranean and I'l definitely buy the ebook of the sequel once it becomes available.
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Product ReviewVery well written but simply not my cup of tea.
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