![]() Some elements of the plot are a touch predictable, but the overall effect is delightful. The portrayal of groups of normal people falling into mob violence and hatred of the other groups is genuinely unnerving, and Tanzer resists simplistic moral takes. ![]() She is known for genre-bending fiction that combines horror and fantasy with strong female. She won the Colorado Book Award for historical fiction, and has been nominated for the Locus Award, British Fantasy Award, and the Wonderland Book Award. ![]() Fin and Ellie make an appealing team as they work to figure out what’s wrong and stop it, and the depiction of Long Island is a fine example of nuanced, lovely landscape writing. Molly Tanzer (born October 29, 1981) is an American fantasy, horror, and science fiction writer. Fin is out of her element in the endless parties of the Roaring ’20s, a situation only made worse by the nightmarish paranormal effects of the tainted liquor. One night, she inadvertently gets into an altercation with another sailor that ends in her acquiring some odd new bottles of moonshine those bottles end up at a party thrown by Delphine “Fin” Coulthead and her rich husband and friends. On Long Island in the 1920s, Ellie West does bootlegging by boat to help pay for her brother’s education. Lovecraft, with, of course, chaotic results. ![]() Tanzer’s charming, confident follow-up to Creatures of Will and Temper continues the conceit of drawing on famous literary source texts for character and plot material here, The Great Gatsby crashes into the works of H.P. ![]()
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