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The Exploding Spaceship Reviews Some Recent Good Urban Fantasy Reads: The Cormorant, Black Arts and Ghost Train to New Orleans

Posted on 2014-03-16 at 3:31 by angelablackwell

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The Cormorant by Chuck Wendig (Angry Robot, January 2014)

This urban fantasy/hard-boiled thriller stars Miriam Black, a woman with the paranormal talent of precisely predicting the date, time, and circumstances of anyone's death. She does some illegal things to survive, usually conning or stealing from the unfortunate who wants to know about his or her demise.

Miriam and the people she encounters all get gleefully skewered, folded, spindled, stapled, and mutilated by Wendig; there is kidnapping, torture

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Posted in The Exploding Spaceship | Tagged chuck wendig, faith hunter, mur lafferty