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A review by lassarina
Snake Agent by Liz Williams
3.0
An interesting mix of sci-fi, cyberpunk feel, and Asian-flavored urban fantasy. I mostly liked it. The bureaucratic feel of Hell was delightful, and I really liked both Zhu Irzh and Wei Chen, but I wanted Inari to have more to do and to have more detail about the backstory there.
One of my book club members said this had the feel of a cozy mystery, and despite the body horror, demons, murder, and references to terrible things, that sentiment rings true.
There seem to be a lot of threads of terribleness that are just dropped - like some of the aspects of the soul trade, and the bioweb, and many other things that genre suggests should be more horrifying than they are. I'm not exactly objecting to the fact that they aren't horrific, but it ends up feeling a little bit jarring.
I enjoyed it enough to consider reading further in the series, but it's not a definite.
One of my book club members said this had the feel of a cozy mystery, and despite the body horror, demons, murder, and references to terrible things, that sentiment rings true.
There seem to be a lot of threads of terribleness that are just dropped - like some of the aspects of the soul trade, and the bioweb, and many other things that genre suggests should be more horrifying than they are. I'm not exactly objecting to the fact that they aren't horrific, but it ends up feeling a little bit jarring.
I enjoyed it enough to consider reading further in the series, but it's not a definite.