A Peculiar Peril
First Written 2020
Genre Fiction
Origin US
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
My Copy library copy
First Read December 2, 2023

A Peculiar Peril

Notes

A giant portal fantasy book from Jeff Vandermeer? That's maybe a little YA? And has talking animals? Sounds right up my alley. BUT I couldn't get past some typical VDM stuff: weird sentence structures, and I REALLY was not into half of the book where Aleister Crowley (not that one, but kind of, from a parallel universe) is a whiny magic dictator. Gave up 200 pages in, I think.

Noted on December 5, 2023

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