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A review by _b_a_l_
Apocalypse Now Now by Charlie Human
4.0
Really loved this.
It is oddly Neil Gaimanesque (as per the tag line) as long as all the inherent beauty and nostalgia that threads through Neil's work has been replaced by pornography and dominatrix spider zombies.
It makes me very VERY happy to read urban fantasy filled with African mythos, set in Cape Town.
"I know I should be freaking out more, but in a way I feel it’s a homecoming. I’ve been bathed in the warm glow of supernatural fantasies ever since I can remember. The fairytales my parents read me as a kid, TV, video games, it all kinda feels like they’ve been preparing me for this moment. It feels somehow natural and the other world, the one with taxes, life insurance, twenty leave days a year, cancer, and the realisation that you’re never, ever, going to be a celebrity, is the shadow, the fantasy and the delusion.
The world is as I always intuited it to be: weird, fractured and full of monsters."
Books like this help keep that dream alive ;)
It is oddly Neil Gaimanesque (as per the tag line) as long as all the inherent beauty and nostalgia that threads through Neil's work has been replaced by pornography and dominatrix spider zombies.
It makes me very VERY happy to read urban fantasy filled with African mythos, set in Cape Town.
"I know I should be freaking out more, but in a way I feel it’s a homecoming. I’ve been bathed in the warm glow of supernatural fantasies ever since I can remember. The fairytales my parents read me as a kid, TV, video games, it all kinda feels like they’ve been preparing me for this moment. It feels somehow natural and the other world, the one with taxes, life insurance, twenty leave days a year, cancer, and the realisation that you’re never, ever, going to be a celebrity, is the shadow, the fantasy and the delusion.
The world is as I always intuited it to be: weird, fractured and full of monsters."
Books like this help keep that dream alive ;)