![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There is laugh-out-loud humor and genuine horror set alongside the sort of moral quandaries and philosophical questions that should theoretically delight any Ivy League student. Hell Bent is everything fans of Bardugo’s Alex Stern series could have asked for: It’s thematically richer, its characters are more complexly rendered, the darkness lurking at the edges of its New England-set world of privilege is more frightening, and its wit more biting. And…I’m here to tell you it absolutely does-and then some. It’s been over three years since Ninth House, the first book in bestselling author Leigh Bardugo’s adult dark academia fantasy series based on a scrappy Yale college student with the ability to see the dead hit shelves, so you might be forgiven for wondering if, after so much time has passed, the sequel could possibly live up to the expectations readers undoubtedly had for it. ![]()
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![]() Our hero Ray Carney has that balancing act down to a pretty fine art, or would do, if it weren’t for his cousin Freddie. Both also feature busy picaresque plots a colourful cast of characters swirling around one man going to extraordinary lengths not only to maintain a double life but to keep the two parts of it – “the straight and the crooked” – separate. But like the film, Harlem Shuffle has more than its fair share of precious stones and dollar-stuffed envelopes passing hands and, as its name promises, more than a touch of that film’s hectic energy a sense for the traffic and jostling between different people and groups – ethnic, economic – that feels quintessentially New York. ![]() ![]() ![]() It also unfolds in a meticulously recreated 1960s era Harlem rather than the early 2010s. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Urn:lcp:timetosleep00flem:epub:e26910cc-77d7-42e6-9c0e-85f8bac0c9f1 Extramarc University of North Carolina Foldoutcount 0 Identifier timetosleep00flem Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t4nk49m7b Isbn 0590636073ĩ780590005258 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition He hunts in the forest for berries to eat. (pop out thumb) He stays out all summer in sunshine and heat. (bend fingers on one hand put thumb inside) Now he comes out to get some fresh air. ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 20:08:50 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA118918 Boxid_2 CH112201 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donor Flannelboard: Ouch Fingerplay: Here is a Cave Here is a cave. ![]() |