Creatures of Will and Temper has been getting some nice notice, so I figured I’d note a few here for form’s sake:
NPR reviewed it, saying:
She has created a Victorian England which is, in all noticeable ways, exactly the Victorian England we know — the mother of our modern world, by turns smoky, smutty, gross and backward, then beautiful, wondrous and louche with the turn of a corner. And yet, embedded in it — woven so closely into the fabric of normalcy that almost no one can see it — Tanzer has given us … demons.
It’s true!
And the Chicago Tribune liked it, too!
The novel’s fast-moving conclusion should satisfy anyone who misses the recent TV series “Penny Dreadful,” but Tanzer’s detailed evocation of Victorian London, of Wilde’s original tone and of the complex relationships, especially of the two troubled sisters, lends the novel its real resonance.
Locus gave it a pretty good review two, calling it “awe-inspiring” at one point in its online review, and saying even nicer things in a roundup in its print version. Fantasy Faction was kind as well, saying “Her cast is complex, layered, and harboring secrets under their public facades.” A few bloggers have also taken note, most recently Books Bones & Buffy (“A delicious tale of manners, trysts, fencing and demons”). Oh, also Wil Wheaton posted it to his Tumbr, so I am officially super stoked.
I’m grateful people seem to be enjoying the book, and look forward to posting new updates as they come!