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" A+++ cannot give this book enough love!! "

" Good at times, moved to slowly at spots. Good book, but not a great book. "

" Found a blog that said if you like Neil Gaiman, you'll like Tim Powers. So far, the blog was right. History plus fantasy? Yay! "

" Would have made a way better Indy movie than the one they churned out last. "

" An unusual mix of British history, cold-war espionage, and dark fantasy. Powers is one of my favorite authors. He enriches his books with electic historical facts and draws unlikely parrallels between diverse aspects. "

" if you like the intrigue surrounding the Gestapo and the Soviets in World War II, to me, this is one of the best Powers novels. The historical background is carefully done and the spy versus spy aspect is brilliant. "

" Terrific blend of occult and spy novel genres. Powers is consistently very readable. "

" What if Philby, Burgess and Maclean weren't just traitors and Russian spies but were involved in an epic supernatural struggle as well? For me spies and the supernatural are a great combination and Powers can always be relied upon to make an unlikely story work. "

" Occult LeCarre "

" One of the best Tim Powers books - definitely a slow-starter, but if you can get past the first 50 pages, you'll be richly rewarded!! "

" Incredibly creepy and awesome book. I felt like I was living the protagonist's life - not cause he resembles me at all, but I was that drawn in. "

" I have to declare that this book is one of the most boring I've had the misfortune to read 100 pages of this year. "

" loved it - not perfect and a few little but glaring things that annoyed me in the writing, but probably the best supernatural/spy novel I've read - absorbing and hugely enjoyable. "

" Very interesting premise. Plotting all over the place and way too long. "

" I gave up partway through. It's dense British spy work at its least rewarding. There may be great complicated plot threads weaving together, but I couldn't see the pattern for the yarn. Plus I bleeding hate limeys, love. "

" I really struggled with this book, and only finished out of sheer stubbornness. It's well-researched, and wholly unique, but it is a long, dense read with paragraph long sentences that just wore me down towards the end. I'd be interested to see what spy fiction fans made of it, though. "

" A bit of a rushed ending, but the journey was wonderful. "

" Finishing up my spy-fi jag with a reread of one of my favorites. It's still great; excellent espionage, excellent supernatural, all kinds of that awesome Tim Powers trademark slipping through the cracks of history. "

" Found a blog that said if you like Neil Gaiman, you'll like Tim Powers. So far, the blog was right. History plus fantasy? Yay! "

" As complex and mind-twisty as all of Tim Powers' books, it doesn't disappoint, but it's not light reading. "

" Demons (of a sort), spies, long-lost love, scattered across war-torn Europe and beyond. "

" How to describe a novel filled with spies and magic that's not quite magic? There are double-crosses and triple-crosses and star-crossed lovers. Overall, once you pick up on the novel's pacing, it's a difficult book to put down. "

" Really wanted to like this book but I just couldn't get into it at all. "

" Any book that reads for 100 pages like a Le Carre spy novel before it diverts into the fantastic is a blast. If you don't mind [fantastic elements non-spoiled] and Cold War conspiracies mashed together, this is a book for you. "