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The House of Shattered Wings
Roc: NAL. Aug. 2015. 416p. ISBN 9780451477385. $26.95; ebk. ISBN 9780698409903. FANTASY
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Fallen angels rule in Paris. Their wars nearly destroyed the city, but peace between the Houses has been maintained, although scheming for power never stops. Phillippe is a Vietnamese expat who had been dragged to the City of Light to fight in the House wars and now runs with a human gang in the slums. When he and his fellow cohort stumble upon a newly Fallen angel in a ruin, they begin to mutilate the weakened woman, as angel bones contain power. Caught in the act, Phillippe is taken to the House Silverspires, Lucifer's own house, although the first Fallen has been missing for years. Now Phillippe and his would-be victim, Isabelle, must each navigate the brutal politics of the Houses, a task that becomes more difficult when a member of a rival House is killed.
VERDICT De Bodard (author of award-winning short fiction as well as the "Obsidian and Blood" novels) has spun a fascinating Paris of decay and cruelty. Phillippe is a marvel of a character, unreliable as a narrator but compelling in his flaws and his deep well of homesickness. [See Eric Norton's sf/fantasy genre spotlight feature, p. 22.—Ed.]
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