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Title: Minions of the Moon
Author: Richard Bowes
Narrator: Paul Woodson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
Language: English
Release date: 04-21-14
Publisher: Lethe Press
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Kevin Grierson has a shadow with a mind of its own. It likes thrills, it likes power, it likes the rush of drugs and danger. From the suburbs of Boston to the streets of New York, from the false glamour of advertising to the dark glamour of hustling and drug-dealing. Grierson's shadow keeps him walking the edge of destruction and madness. Then a simple robbery goes horribly wrong. With the help of a flawed saint named Leo Dunn, Grierson struggles to banish his shadow, and succeeds. Temporarily. Years later, sober and settled, at peace with his world, Kevin Grierson meets his shadow again. And this time it won't go away. This new edition of the Lambda Literary Award-winning novel includes a brand-new Grierson story.
Members Reviews:
Highly recommended
One of the other reviewers called described Minions of the Moon as "frightening and beautiful" -- I completely agree. I read this back when it first came out, but I think I only really appreciated it fully on this second reading.
This is not a straightforward narrative; it meanders back and forth through the protagonist's life, allowing us to understand his passage through times of addiction and degradation into an acceptance of his past and of the Shadow that is a part of his existence. Itâs hard to say this is an enjoyable book -- it is too intense for that -- but once I had started it I found it difficult to put it down. I highly recommend it.
A Great Haunting Novel
After I finished this book, I realized just how inventive and unique it really was. The hero Kevin is haunted by his 'shadow' who literally embodies all the bad sides of his character and past. Through solidly constructed chapters (especially a few right in the middle of this book, which are downright brilliant), Kevin both looks back at his past and confronts his shadow again after years.
At points the novel has very obviously been stitched together from many separate short works (as author admits in the preface), but once you get into the storyline and the reality as weaved together by the author, you'll let yourself go on a spook tour of Kevin's psyche.
Inventive, clever, unique, vivid, pervasive.
Someone recently said to me, 'I like books in which as a reader I'm not 100% sure of what's going on.' Me too.
Dark and believable fantasy
If much fantasy consists of real toads in imaginary gardens, then Minions of the Moon is precisely the other way around. In most respects it is a book about a character struggling to overcome his own dark side. It is the world as we know it, only in this world a person's dark side can exist as a separate entity.
The tip o' the hat to Mr. Hyde in the Shadow is well done. The novel is gritty enough to have a nice hard-boiled feel without being unbearably grotty.
Why not five stars? Too disjointed. It does not quite hold together well enough as a novel to make it really memorable.
Good read all the same. Not a waste of time.
From a ground-breaker to a classic
When Minions of the Moon came out in the late 90s there had been nothing like it. Since then there have been any number of books that WISH they could be this brilliant, and create a character as interesting, nay, riveting, as Kevin Grierson. It breaks ground in speculative fiction, in stringing together stories to make a mosaic novel, and just in story-telling.
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Title: Minions of the Moon
Author: Richard Bowes
Narrator: Paul Woodson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
Language: English
Release date: 04-21-14
Publisher: Lethe Press
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Kevin Grierson has a shadow with a mind of its own. It likes thrills, it likes power, it likes the rush of drugs and danger. From the suburbs of Boston to the streets of New York, from the false glamour of advertising to the dark glamour of hustling and drug-dealing. Grierson's shadow keeps him walking the edge of destruction and madness. Then a simple robbery goes horribly wrong. With the help of a flawed saint named Leo Dunn, Grierson struggles to banish his shadow, and succeeds. Temporarily. Years later, sober and settled, at peace with his world, Kevin Grierson meets his shadow again. And this time it won't go away. This new edition of the Lambda Literary Award-winning novel includes a brand-new Grierson story.
Members Reviews:
Highly recommended
One of the other reviewers called described Minions of the Moon as "frightening and beautiful" -- I completely agree. I read this back when it first came out, but I think I only really appreciated it fully on this second reading.
This is not a straightforward narrative; it meanders back and forth through the protagonist's life, allowing us to understand his passage through times of addiction and degradation into an acceptance of his past and of the Shadow that is a part of his existence. Itâs hard to say this is an enjoyable book -- it is too intense for that -- but once I had started it I found it difficult to put it down. I highly recommend it.
A Great Haunting Novel
After I finished this book, I realized just how inventive and unique it really was. The hero Kevin is haunted by his 'shadow' who literally embodies all the bad sides of his character and past. Through solidly constructed chapters (especially a few right in the middle of this book, which are downright brilliant), Kevin both looks back at his past and confronts his shadow again after years.
At points the novel has very obviously been stitched together from many separate short works (as author admits in the preface), but once you get into the storyline and the reality as weaved together by the author, you'll let yourself go on a spook tour of Kevin's psyche.
Inventive, clever, unique, vivid, pervasive.
Someone recently said to me, 'I like books in which as a reader I'm not 100% sure of what's going on.' Me too.
Dark and believable fantasy
If much fantasy consists of real toads in imaginary gardens, then Minions of the Moon is precisely the other way around. In most respects it is a book about a character struggling to overcome his own dark side. It is the world as we know it, only in this world a person's dark side can exist as a separate entity.
The tip o' the hat to Mr. Hyde in the Shadow is well done. The novel is gritty enough to have a nice hard-boiled feel without being unbearably grotty.
Why not five stars? Too disjointed. It does not quite hold together well enough as a novel to make it really memorable.
Good read all the same. Not a waste of time.
From a ground-breaker to a classic
When Minions of the Moon came out in the late 90s there had been nothing like it. Since then there have been any number of books that WISH they could be this brilliant, and create a character as interesting, nay, riveting, as Kevin Grierson. It breaks ground in speculative fiction, in stringing together stories to make a mosaic novel, and just in story-telling.