A review by snazel
A Death at the Dionysus Club by Amy Griswold, Melissa Scott
5.0
EXACTLY the kind of gleeful adventure that I needed after these brutally good books I've been reading. Murderous writing desks! Blackmail! Scandalous schoolteachers! Magical grammatical problems distorting space and time! Awkward victorian sex clubs! Police bro-friendships! The look the coroner gives you when you bring him a body that sometimes shoots ice shards! This was so much FUN.
The series doesn't take itself too seriously, but at the same time it absolutely commits itself to the logical end of all its ideas, from magical grammar gone wrong (Do NOT bring a poet to a magic fight) to the social implications of magic (magicians are gentlemen, unlike those dirty tradesmen romance writers). It has the same sort of tone as Leverage.
And oh my word the QUOTES.
The series doesn't take itself too seriously, but at the same time it absolutely commits itself to the logical end of all its ideas, from magical grammar gone wrong (Do NOT bring a poet to a magic fight) to the social implications of magic (magicians are gentlemen, unlike those dirty tradesmen romance writers). It has the same sort of tone as Leverage.
And oh my word the QUOTES.