Someplace to Be Flying
Nobody does urban fantasy better than Charles de Lint. He has a gift for creating engaging, fully realized characters, totally believable dialogue, and a feeling that magic is just around the corner.Someplace to Be Flyingis set in Newford, a town familiar to readers of de Lint. (He set two prior novels (Memory and DreamandTrader) and two anthologies (Dreams UnderfootandThe Ivory and the Horn) in Newford.) One late night, as Hank drives his gypsy cab, his reliable though perilous city is transformed. He encounters the mythical "animal people," and the experience leaves him--and the reader--questioning accepted reality."Hank just wanted away from here. He'd sampled some hallucinogens when he was a kid and the feeling he had now was a lot like coming down from an acid high. Everything slightly askew, illogical things that somehow made sense, everything too sharp and clear when you looked at it but fading fast in your peripheral vision, blurred, like it didn't really exist." Fans ofEmma BullandTerri Windling(as both an editor and an author) will enjoy de Lint. He can make you believe "as many as six impossible things before breakfast."--Nona Vero