A review by cupiscent
She Who Waits by Daniel Polansky

5.0

What a magnificently noir conclusion to this epic grimy twist of a trilogy. And I enjoyed every page of it. Sure, the flashbackstory asides were sometimes a little confusing and Warden continues to be such an arch-masculine loner noir hero that it makes one's teeth hurt from the stoic squaring of jaw, but this is just so deeply dedicated to the post-Industrial-collapse damage to humanity that somehow I don't just go with it, I revel in it. It's like a fantasy version of The Wire, with all the devil-may-care wicked enjoyment and serious business of soul-crushing, but just enough divorced from reality that it doesn't suck my spirits.

Also, fuck yeah Mazzie.