No Gods, No Monsters

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Hardcover, 387 pages

English language

Published Sept. 7, 2021 by Blackstone Publishing.

ISBN:
978-1-9826-0372-4
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Goodreads:
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One October morning, Laina gets the news that her brother has been shot and killed by Boston cops. But what looks like a case of police brutality soon reveals something much stranger.

Monsters are real. And they want everyone to know it.

As creatures from myth and legend come out of the shadows, seeking safety through visibility, their emergence sets off a chain of seemingly unrelated events. Members of a local werewolf pack are threatened into silence. A professor follows a missing friend’s trail of bread crumbs to a mysterious secret society. And a young boy with unique abilities seeks refuge in a pro-monster organization with secrets of its own. Meanwhile, more people start disappearing, suicides and hate crimes increase, and protests erupt globally, both for and against the monsters. At the center is a mystery no one thinks to ask: Why now? What has frightened the monsters …

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reviewed No Gods, No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull

Review of No Gods, No Monsters

No Gods, No Monsters is a weird book on many levels, from the unreliable omniscient(ish) narrator to the ant teleportation circles and the finger-eating dragon boy. It’s also a book that asks meaningful questions, both personal and social, and answers them in the ways that life does: enigmatically, heartbreakingly, surprisingly, or not at all. This is not a book to skim: there are many characters and a multitude of storylines, and the prose is worth paying attention to. A rewarding read.

reviewed No Gods, No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull

Intense, Rewarding Urban Fantasy

There's so much I appreciated in this novel. The diverse characters, commentary on social justice, terrifying events, and beautiful prose came together in a satisfying but unsettling book. The on-the-sleeve anarchism found throughout echoed the best of Ursula K. Le Guin, but Turnbull clearly has love for and influence from speculative fiction more broadly, creating a rich, complex new experience.

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Subjects

  • Fiction
  • Horror