She made mistakes, she judged people, and she recognised her own weaknesses. I thought Zoë’s character was brilliant as she was clearly very strong, but she was also human. I also really liked the details of this world that was created, and clearly a lot of thought had gone into this book.įor me, I thought the characters used in the novel were also great, and this made up for the fact that the plot itself wasn’t full of action. For example, after the 9/11 terror attack Muslim coterie were hunted, showing the parallels between the world Lafferty has created, and the real world. I really liked the parallels Lafferty drew between the human world the reader knows, and the world of the coterie. It was one of those books that was impossible to put down, and so the fact that it kept me reading well into the night shows that it was a very engrossing book! I enjoyed reading this novel, and I thought the mixture of fantasy and lifestyle was very interesting. However, she soon gets dragged into the conflict between the coterie and human world and this takes up more priority than the travel guide meaning, for the most part, her job as an editor is somewhat side-lined by the coterie/human conflict. Her first idea is to write a travel guide for coterie (monsters) who come to New York, to be used much in the same way as human travel guides about New York. Zoë sticks out like a sore thumb, and also appears to many of her co-workers as a source of food, rather than a fellow worker.ĭespite being introduced to this weird and wonderful world, however, she still needs the job too much to turn down the offer, and therefore enters herself into a whole world of crazy goings-on. The boss of this company, Phil, is actually a vampire- and various other ‘monsters’ work at the company already. It turns out that the publishing company is run for the coterie world. The ‘coterie’ are basically ‘monsters’ such as vampires, goblins, and demons.
However, when Zoë applies for the job, she is introduced to the ‘coterie’ world that operates in New York. This may sound like a completely normal lifestyle novel. She finds her perfect job at the Underground Publishing Company, and she starts to help write and edit a travel guide for the company. The book follows the life of Zoë, a woman who has just left Raleigh in search of a new start, and who wants to escape the scary wife of her boss. ‘The Shambling Guide to New York’ is a book that’s hard to categorise, but I would call it lifestyle, mixed with fantasy- and sprinkled with a bit of romance. I picked up this book on a whim from a jumble sale, and I really enjoyed it! I’d never heard of either the author or the novel, but I thought it was a really interesting read.
Today I wanted to write a review of ‘The Shambling Guide to New York City’.
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