PaperbackReader reviewed The Dirty Streets of Heaven by Tad Williams
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4 stars
I'm a big fan of [a:Jim Butcher|10746|Jim Butcher|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1400640324p2/10746.jpg]'s Dresden Files series, and not at all fond of [a:Richard Kadrey|37557|Richard Kadrey|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1252945001p2/37557.jpg]'s [b:Sandman Slim|5776788|Sandman Slim (Sandman Slim, #1)|Richard Kadrey|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1311727590s/5776788.jpg|5948537], and I mention these because (other than generous amounts of cultural osmosis) they represent the sum of my personal experience with the Hard-Boiled Detective genre... until now.
Bobby Dollar lies considerably higher on the lighter side of the morality scale than Sandman Slim or Harry Dresden, but there's still plenty of the growly irreverence about him, essential to making an angel the hero of a story like this.
I'm a big fan of [a:Jim Butcher|10746|Jim Butcher|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1400640324p2/10746.jpg]'s Dresden Files series, and not at all fond of [a:Richard Kadrey|37557|Richard Kadrey|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1252945001p2/37557.jpg]'s [b:Sandman Slim|5776788|Sandman Slim (Sandman Slim, #1)|Richard Kadrey|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1311727590s/5776788.jpg|5948537], and I mention these because (other than generous amounts of cultural osmosis) they represent the sum of my personal experience with the Hard-Boiled Detective genre... until now.
Bobby Dollar lies considerably higher on the lighter side of the morality scale than Sandman Slim or Harry Dresden, but there's still plenty of the growly irreverence about him, essential to making an angel the hero of a story like this.
