A review by nigellicus
Earthquake Weather by Tim Powers

adventurous mysterious tense

5.0

Almost exactly as if he'd planned it that way, the third Fault Lines volume draws together the first and second in an epic conclusion to the saga. The King Of the West is dad (that's a mis-type, but I'm leavng it in because it looks like a Dad joke, as in hello King Of the West, I'm Dad), murdered by a woman with multiple personality disorder currently languising in a mental hospital under the sinister care of a creepy psychiatrist. Meanwhile the body of the dead king, which shows no sign of decay, has turned up at the home of Cootie, the presumptive heir. This is all very upsetting for everyone involved, but things are only going to get worse as efforts to revive Scott Crane involve various dangers and heavy costs. This is as motley a collection of the lost, the weird and the broken as have ever graced a Powers novel, and the history of wine-growing in America and the msyterious Winchester House and the god Dionysius all play a part in the grueling quest. Grueling for the characters, that is. The reader just goes along with wide eyes and/or ears if they're listening.