A review by lori85
Creatures of Will and Temper by Molly Tanzer

3.0

Molly Tanzer's name keeps coming up in relation to modern Lovecraftian and Weird authors, so I've been wanting to read her for awhile. Creatures of Will and Temper is actually more urban fantasy, although the "demons" involved are said to be extradimensional beings of some sort rather than anything related to traditional religion. In my experience urban fantasy tends to be a fairly shallow, escapist genre, and I think Tanzer tried to balance the expectation of a fun romp with a more literary exploration of artistic and sensual decadence in the fin de siècle tradition of Wilde and Huysmans (which [a:W.H. Pugmire|3064456|W.H. Pugmire|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1342560875p2/3064456.jpg] did very, very well). The result felt uneven, like two different books were sqooshed together. The final act in particular is all action à la Harry Dresden, which I don't care for at all. Overall entertaining enough, but also rather disappointing.