Unwisely's Reviews > 9Tail Fox

I adored the Arabesk series (start with Pashazade!), so when I was wandering through the SF section and saw this novel, I grabbed it.

(I had forgotten he wrote another book I didn't like as much, I only noticed when I looked for the name of that book just now. Hunh.)

Anyway. This was wonderful - sort of a supernatural detective story, set in alternate San Francisco. (About which I know very little, so if there were geographical problems, I would never have known.) Has the sort of frenetic feel of the good Neal Stephenson novels but manages to finish the story without feeling like you just drove off a cliff. (Dude, I love Snow Crash and The Diamond Age, but I am aware of their flaws.) OK, he mostly resolved things. I'm still not clear what Pete Sanchez was doing - or why - or why Bea's family didn't stop that relationship...but that's acceptable.

An anti-hero I liked, whoa.