A Key, An Egg, An Unfortunate Remark, by Harry Connolly
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A MYSTERIOUS KILLING After years of waging a secret war against the supernatural, Marley Jacobs put away her wooden stakes and silver bullets, then turned her back on violence. She declared Seattle, her city, a safe zone for everyone, living and undead. There would be no more preternatural murder under her watch. But waging peace can make as many enemies as waging war, and when Marley's nephew turns up dead in circumstances suspiciously like a vampire feeding, she must look into it. Is there a new arrival in town? Is someone trying to destroy her fragile truce? Or was her nephew murdered because he was, quite frankly, a complete tool? As Marley investigates her nephew's death, she discovers he had been secretly dabbling in the supernatural himself. What, exactly, had he been up to, and who had he been doing it with? More importantly, does it threaten the peace she has worked so hard to create? (Spoiler: yeah, it absolutely does.)
A Key, An Egg, An Unfortunate Remark, by Harry Connolly- Amazon Sales Rank: #220454 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-03-03
- Released on: 2015-03-03
- Format: Kindle eBook
About the Author Harry Connolly's debut novel, CHILD OF FIRE, was listed to Publishers Weekly's Best 100 Novels of 2009. This is his tenth book.
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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful. Please go out and buy this book. By Trey I really liked this one. The author's described it as a pacifist urban fantasy, full of diplomacy, trickery and thoughtfulness and I have to agree. I enjoyed it from beginning to end, and I'll say the end delivers a plot twist I'd have never expected given the tropes of urban fantasy.It leaves me wanting more and I hope I can find more books out there like this.So, what did I like?The characters. Marley and Al are a blast. Marley as the seen it all former hunter of the super natural. Al as her mundane nephew back from Afghanistan on a medical discharge. Also, the opposition. Because they live up to the old saw about the villains being heroes in their own heads. And I felt sympathy for a vampire and a werewolf.The plot. Its fairly twisty, but not outrageously so.The concepts. A sanctuary city for the supernatural. Vampire rest homes. The challenges of vampirism. How to deal with a werewolf.
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful. A refreshingly unique take on the urban fantasy genre By David R. Rich "A Key, An Egg, An Unfortunate Remark" is a remarkable book containing many remarkable things: trolls, demons, vampires, ghosts, werewolves, a sexagenarian character who isn't automatically written as a bumbling technophobe, and much more.I was a little worried, with the release scheduled so close after the Great Way Trilogy, that this book would be an afterthought — prolificness often fills me with a sense of dread in that regard. However, I'm pleased to say that nothing could be further from the case here. Having had the benefit of ripping my way through Connolly's oeuvre in a relatively short time, it's apparent that what he's doing here is a natural evolution of what he's been doing all along. The result is a book that simultaneously feels very much its own thing and a natural growth of what's come before, a spiritual successor to Twenty Palaces and The Great Way that is at the same time wholly unlike either.The book is a delight from the first page to the last. If you're worried that a pacifist urban fantasy will inevitably be boring and unengaging, rest assured that a peaceful resolution is far more challenging than a violent one. Violence is direct; it gets things done, and done quickly. Peace requires subtlety, forethought, cleverness, and a healthy dose of outright chicanery. The book is also an urban fantasy mystery that takes the "mystery" part as more than an afterthought to be resolved deus ex machina in the last few pages. If it were merely character-driven, that would be enough, because the characters are wonderful, but there really is plenty of plot here, even without the casual body count endemic to the genre. In fact, the story succeeds so well that it makes the sarcastic-antihero-coldly-wading-through-the-corpses-of-his-enemies sort of urban fantasy feel lazy and uninteresting by comparison.The characters, however, are definitely the best part. Connolly has a real talent for making even those with the tiniest parts to play feel well-rounded, fully realized, and intriguing, an ability he puts to great use as Marley and Albert go through a whirlwind grand tour of the supernatural. There may only be snippets of any given flavor of supernatural beastie, but a snippet goes a long way when the author has interesting things to say and interesting characters to say them with. Connolly cuts through the bulls*** at the heart of the mythology with a remarkable economy, focusing on the humanity and tragedy of each creature in a way that lays bare the flaws in our thinking about them.And Marley, of course, is our guide for all of this. She understands and empathizes because she has bothered to learn. She is a phenomenal pacifist protagonist, full of both empathy and steel resolve in equal parts, not above bribery or trickery or threats to maintain the shaky peace she's built. Demographically, Marley is such an unlikely lead that you can't help but think she's a nose-thumbing at the genre prescriptivists who "helpfully" felt the need to diagnose the perceived flaws in Connolly's early work. It would be easy for such a character to fall comfortably into some sort of wise crone super-character trope, but she never does; she's remarkably human, vulnerable, and self-aware underneath her eccentricities and skill, and the moments where that humanity peeks through are among the best in the book.For those critical of the Twenty Palaces books for their in media res approach to worldbuilding, you'll be pleased to note that Albert serves as our ingenue tourguide, asking many of the same expository questions we would in his shoes. For those who, like me, rather appreciated Twenty Palace's Ray Lilly's discomfort in a world he didn't fully understand, rest assured that the exposition that's here doesn't slow things down and leaves plenty unanswered, often in fact raising more questions than it answers. You get a sense of a much bigger, much more complicated world, but you never feel adrift or apart from it. It's the same sort of just-in-time exposition Connolly employed in The Great Way, and it really is expertly done. It also helps that Albert is well-developed enough to stand on his own, because, let's face it, Marley is going to upstage pretty much anyone you pair her with. Albert's development, complete with the stumbles and triumphs along the way, is a delight to read.There are a few quibbles here and there. The copyediting isn't perfect, though it's rarely more than an occasional repeated or omitted word. Marley and Albert's investigation leads them to meet an enormous cast of side characters and I sometimes had to flip back a chapter or two to remind myself who one of the smaller players was. And the climax and resolution, while certainly enjoyable and unexpected, does leave a few threads of the plot in unresolved shambles.All told, however, "A Key, An Egg, An Unfortunate Remark" is an astonishingly unique take on a genre that has a tendency to suffocate in its own formula, with novel and thoughtful takes on all of the established conventions and populated by memorable characters unlike any I've read before. It would be easy for such a book to come off like an experiment, a writer's exercise more than a reader's indulgence, but it's also a ripping good story well told. It is, by turns, smart, funny, thought-provoking, and touching, and remains engaging and fresh throughout.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful. Well worth reading for anyone who enjoys urban fantasy By Max Kaehn Urban fantasy usually comes with snarling showdowns between supernatural bad guys, often with big magical fireworks. This is the first one I’ve ever seen where the protagonist— an elderly woman with modest magical talents— is committed to solving problems without violence and has to work very subtly. The story is driven by a good whodunnit mystery that gradually unravels bigger and bigger problems, all the while giving us a tour of this version of a Seattle with supernatural hijinks happening behind the scenes. Overall, a good story and well worth reading for the novelty value for anyone who enjoys urban fantasy. It’s self-published (through Kickstarter) and has some rough bits that I think could have used another pass with a reading group and/or editor.
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