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Wow, between finishing up Deep Space Nine and finishing Galilee, it's been a real late-90s kind of week for me.

Not my favourite Barker novel, and it runs about 50 pages too long (and that's with leaving the story open for a sequel that never materialized), but it's enjoyable. For a book about two warring families, there's very little overlap between the stories of the Gearys and the Barbarossas, except in the romance between Rachel and Galilee. If you want to try Clive Barker, start elsewhere, but if you're already a fan it's worth reading. ⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2

So close to the end on this one, and I'm convinced I didn't actually finish it the first time (back in '98 or '99) because things were really familiar to a point and suddenly I remember nothing. Review coming soon.

"Imagine please a country far from here, in a time of plenty, when the rich were kind and the poor had God."

You don‘t like scandal? I‘ll tell you something about God. You hate God? I‘ll recite you a love scene. You‘re a puritan? Have patience; the lovers will suffer. Lovers always suffer.

Another #TBT post. Pretty sure this was my first Clive Barker novel. I don't remember a lot about it, except it had two families that had been at war for generations (one of which may have been gods). I've got it on my re-read pile now. I think I'd appreciate it more today than I did the first time.