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Title: Glass Town

Author: Steven Savile

Narrator: Steve West

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-05-17

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Dark Fantasy

Publisher's Summary:

Steven Savile is an international sensation, selling over half a million copies worldwide and writing for cult favorites including Doctor Who, Torchwood, and Stargate. Now, he is finally making his US debut with Glass Town, a brilliantly composed audiobook revolving around the magic and mystery lurking in London.

There's always been magic in our world. We just needed to know where to look for it.

In 1924, two brothers both loved Eleanor Raines, a promising young actress from the East End of London. She disappeared during the filming of Alfred Hitchcock's debut, Number 13, which itself is now lost. It was the crime of the age, capturing the imagination of the city: the beautiful actress never seen again and the gangster who disappeared the same day.

Generations have passed. Everyone involved is long dead. But even now their dark, twisted secret threatens to tear the city apart.

Joshua Raines is about to enter a world of macabre beauty, of glittering celluloid and the silver screen, of illusion and deception, of impossibly old gangsters and the fiendish creatures they command, and, most frighteningly of all, of genuine magic. He is about to enter Glass Town. The generations-old obsession with Eleanor Raines' unsolved case is about to become his obsession, handed down father to son through his bloodline like some unwanted inheritance. But first he needs to bury his grandfather and absorb the implications of the confession in his hand, a letter from one of the brothers, Isaiah, claiming to have seen the missing actress. The woman in the red dress hadn't aged a day, no matter that it was 1994 and she'd been gone 70 years.

Long-buried secrets cannot stay secrets forever. Hidden places cannot stay hidden forever. The magic that destroyed one of the most brutal families in London's dark history is finally failing, and Joshua Raines is about to discover that everything he dared dream of, everything he has ever feared, is waiting for him in Glass Town.

Members Reviews:

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Steve is a pal of mine so let's get that out of the way. I have heard him talk about Glass House as something special, something he had labored over and was proud of. I eagerly awaited its release so i could see for myself.

What we have here is a crime novel, a family drama, and a supernatural yarn all freshly wrapped together so it feels new. The tropes are upended and he has found new ways to intrigue us with mysteries and the sesrch for eternal love, and eternal freedom.

This is a good, solid read with strong internal logic making everything feel right. If there is anynflaw is that Josh's famiky is under-developed, notably his sister Lexi. It would have deepened tuujbgs a bit and raised the stakes. But, that is a mere quibble.

I was very disappointed though.

I was really excited to read this because the premise was so interesting to me. I was very disappointed though... I think I only made it about 1/4 of the way through the book before I finally had to give up.