A review by jefffrane
Low Town by Daniel Polansky

2.0

A remarkably unimaginative attempt to fuse noir detective fiction and the supernatural. Polansky's writing is pedestrian and the story is cluttered with real world references that jarred me from buying into his invented world. Someone should buy the author a copy of Le Guin's From Elfland to Poughkeepsie with its devastating analysis of the critical value of language in fantasy.

I lost interest early on and gave up on Low Town about half way through. I'm just glad there are a lot of books on my Unread shelves.