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Black Helicopters
Black Helicopters | Caitlín R. Kiernan
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A dark jewel of a novella, this definitive edition of Caitlín R. Kiernan’s Black Helicopters is the expanded and completed version of the World Fantasy Award-nominated original. Just as the Signalman stood and faced the void in Agents of Dreamland, so it falls to Ptolema, a chess piece in her agency’s world-spanning game, to unravel what has become tangled and unknowable. Something strange is happening on the shores of New England. Something stranger still is happening to the world itself, chaos unleashed, rational explanation slipped loose from the moorings of the known. Two rival agencies stare across the Void at one another. Two sisters, the deadly, sickened products of experiments going back decades, desperately evade their hunters. An invisible war rages at the fringes of our world, with unimaginable consequences and Lovecraftian horrors that ripple centuries into the future. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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Black Helicopters | Caitlín R. Kiernan
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Panpan

Too convoluted to handle, more even than Alice Through the Looking-Glass (not a fan, sorry), which it constantly references. Made mostly of dialogue—a bunch of talking heads, vomiting random words (some of them in French, with no translation to be had), for some 200 pages...

Waited for it to become comprehensible.

It didn‘t.

What a disappointment.

1.0/5

eol The score is so low probably because I‘m still angry about it. Because I liked the first volume (which fortunately works as a standalone, so at least there‘s that). 14mo
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CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian
Black Helicopters | Caitlín R. Kiernan
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Bailedbailed

After the third POV switch the third chapter in, I am deciding this is not the book for me. I have no idea what the fuck is going on and I am not intrigued enough to keep going and find out.

Beachesnbooks How did you feel about the first book? Was this one a lot worse? I liked Agents of Dreamland but am on the fence about trying this one 6y
CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian @Beachesnbooks Wait, this is a second book in a series??? That would explain a lot! 6y
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Guildedearlobe
Black Helicopters | Caitlín R. Kiernan
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My library holds came in!