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Low Town by Daniel Polansky

2.0

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Drug dealers, hustlers, brothels, dirty politics, corrupt cops . . . and sorcery. Welcome to Low Town. From the back of the book itself, you can see that there's way too much going on here. I would've liked to see a few hundred more pages just to flesh out the whole world or town or land or whatever - had the writing been better. However, while the plot is interesting and Low Town itself is a pretty cool place, the writing is sloppy and could've used a much more stringent editor. It was way too obvious who the real bad guy was about a third of the way through, so although Warden was supposed to be a badass, he certainly was not.