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COULD YOU FIND A MUSEUM FOR A MONSTER?OR A JAZZ BAR FOR A JABBERWOCK?
Zoe Norris writes travel guides for the undead. And she's good at it too -- her new-found ability to talk to cities seems to help. After the success of The Sbambling Guide to New York City, Zoe and her team are sent to New Orleans to write the sequel.
Work isn't all that brings Zoe to the Big Easy. The only person who can save her boyfriend from zombism is rumored to live in the city's swamps, but Zoe's out of her element in the wilderness. With her supernatural colleagues waiting to see her fail, and rumors of a new threat hunting city talkers, can Zoe stay alive long enough to finish her next book?
- Sales Rank: #685178 in Books
- Published on: 2014-03-04
- Released on: 2014-03-04
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.25" h x 1.00" w x 5.50" l, .68 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 352 pages
Review
"Lafferty's writing has an easy style that draws the reader in... She manages to shape the well-worked clay in entertaining new ways."―Publishers Weekly on The Ghost Train to New Orleans
"This book, like its predecessor, feels inhabited and alive... Even more entertaining than the Shambling Guide."―Locus on Ghost Train to New Orleans
Mur Lafferty's debut novel is a must-read book for those who like their urban fantasy fast, furious, and funny. Terrific stuff!―Kat Richardson on The Shambling Guide to New York City
This is a great start to what promises to be one of the gems of the comic urban fantasy crown. The Shambling Guide sets the wonderful world of the supernatural--and the slightly more esoteric world of travel guide publishing--on its ear, and the result is nothing short of delightful.―New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire
An engagingly funny, and fun, romp through NYC. You'll love Zoe... to bits―New York Times bestselling Tobias S. Buckell on The Shambling Guide to New York City
"Shows exactly why so many writers have been buzzing about Mur Lafferty for so many years: an unbeatable mixture of humor, heart, imagination, and characterization. I want to live in Mur's New York."―Cory Doctorow on The Shambling Guide to New York City
"Without Mur Lafferty, the SF genre would be a much duller place. Mur is constantly inventive, always great fun and deserves every success."―Paul Cornell on The Shambling Guide to New York City
Wit, style and plenty of sardonic dialogue, like Douglas Adams writing an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.―Financial Times
If Buffy grew up, got therapy and found a real job, it would look like this.―Scott Sigler
Well-written and immersive...a travel series you'll definitely want to stick with.―SFX
Now THIS is the urban fantasy heroine we want.―i09 on The Shambling Guide to New York City
"A wild ride through the secret side of New York City, Mur Lafferty's mighty debut is urban fantasy the way it should be: fast, funny, with bags of action and characters you'll love. A total delight from cover to cover."―Adam Christopher on The Shambling Guide to New York City
"The Shambling Guide to New York City is a monstrously fun romp by one of our most engaging new authors."―Tim Pratt
"Zombies and vampires and golems, oh my! The Shambling Guide to New York City rounds up the biggest cast of the undead and never-quite-alive ever to appear in a single novel, along with a wisecracking heroine whose picture belongs over the dictionary entry for spunky. This is a comic tour-de-force by a writer who lives and breathes popular culture. Mur Lafferty is throwing a monster party and you're invited."―James Patrick Kelly, Hugo and Nebula Award Winner
"Mur Lafferty is a bright, shining light in speculative fiction. She brings a warm, humourous and startling fresh voice to the genre in The Shambling Guide to New York City."―Kaaron Warren
"Looking for a very different kind of travel guide? One that shows you the real Manhattan? The one the tourists haven't discovered yet, but the vampires and the watersprites have? Then The Shambling Guide to New York City is just what you need!
With really interesting restaurant recs and sightseeing suggestions, and unusual (to say the least) takes on the Statue of Liberty and Grant's Tomb, it's got everything you need to know for the trip of a lifetime--or longer! And with the smart and intrepid Zoe to show you around, how could you possibly get in trouble? I give it 5 Michelin stars and 8 Zombie Planet Thumbs Up (with real thumbs)!"―Connie Willis
"Funny, smart, and original."―Library Journal on Ghost Train to New Orleans
About the Author
Mur Lafferty is a writer, podcast producer, gamer, runner, and geek. She is the host of the podcast I Should Be Writing and the co-host of Ditch Diggers. She is the winner of the 2013 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. She is addicted to computer games, Zombies, Run!, and Star Wars LEGO. She lives in Durham, NC with her husband and daughter.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Even more awesome than the first one
By Mark
WARNING: This post contains major spoilers for book 1 in the Shambling Guides series, “The Shambling Guide to New York City.” If you haven’t read it, go read that instead of this review. It was a great book, though I never wrote an official review.
I am, admittedly, a fan of Mur’s I Should Be Writing podcast, and that was the reason I picked up her first traditionally published novel, “The Shambling Guide to New York City” last year when it came out. That is, however, not why I had this book delivered on release day. That was because Shambling Guide, the first book in the series, was a delightful read, and it made me want to read this book as well. (I will buy a single book from an author out of loyalty or interest. If I buy more, it’s because I liked the first one.)
The Ghost Train to New Orleans starts in New York City, not long after the end of the first book. Zoë is trying to figure out her new city talker powers and come to terms with the friends she has lost. Before she has time to do this, however, she is sent away to New Orleans by her boss, to write the second shambling guide.
Before she leaves, she goes to talk to Arthur, who is now kind-of her boyfriend. They discover that the medicine he needs to keep him from turning completely into a zombie has gone missing, and they have no way to contact the only person they know who can make more. Thus, Arthur decides to accompany Zoë to New Orleans, where the teacher of the man who made his potion–and possibly the only other person who can make it–lives, if she’s still alive.
The group, including several of Zoë’s coworkers, depart on the titular Ghost Train, where Zoë is forced to sit in the human car, a victim of “discrimination”. There, she meets another city talker, and the train is attacked by ghost horsemen.
I won’t say much more about the plot, because that would spoil large portions of the novel for you, and I don’t want to do that. Suffice to say, the action starts high, and only continues to ratchet up, right up to the end, which was incredibly tense and well-crafted.
While the first book focused on learning the world of the coterie (magical beings that live hidden among us), and that was necessary for our first introduction to the world, this one takes advantage of the fact that we’ve seen much of that already to instead dig deeper into the history of the hidden world, as well as introducing some very interesting characters, both human and not.
While the first book also focused heavily on the writing aspect of Zoë’s life–she works for a company that writes guides for coterie who wish to visit the various cities–this volume does most of that off-screen, though we still get little snippets of the guide itself between every chapter. I like that we don’t have to deal with much of the actual writing, though we still have the team dynamics, but I also feel that the little bits of the guide itself that we see are really neat.
The ending is adrenaline-filled, and satisfying, though not everything is butterflies and flowers. A warning: While the first book felt like a stand-alone with sequel potential, Ghost Train will leave you begging for the third entry into the series. I hope the wait isn’t too long, and I intend to pre-order my copy as soon as I can.
Conclusion: While I don’t normally read urban fantasy, I loved this book. I unabashedly give it five of five stars, and a hearty recommendation. Mur not only talks the talk, she walks the walk.
Original review from my blog, [...]
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Witty urban fantasy fun
By Jaylia
How would you like to attend a masked Carnival ball hosted by a shady dude called “The One Who Kills and Is Thanked For It” when you’ve packed only grubby clothes and you’re flanked by two omni-gorgeous goddesses? Zoë isn’t crazy about it, but it’s all part of her job editing travel guides for the undead and immortal. It’s a job she’s very good at and while, yes, it can be a little nerve-wracking overseeing writers who’d love to eat her brains, smite her dead, or drink her blood, times are tough and Zoë needs the steady income. Plus she now has a water sprite, a death goddess, and a Valkyrie as her best friends, which can sometimes be unsettling but is still pretty cool. At least that’s what Zoë thinks most of the time.
I can’t resist this witty urban fantasy series and one of the best things about it is Zoë, a non-paranormal human who recently discovered she isn’t quite as ordinary as she thought. It turns out she can talk to the souls of cities--a trick that may come in handy for a travel editor if she can figure out how to master it. In this book she and her team of writers take a high speed ghost train to New Orleans to gather material for their next city guide, but Zoë is also hoping to help her new boyfriend Arthur find a voodoo-like herbalist somewhere in the swamps who may have medicine to stave off Arthur’s zombie infection.
Right from the start there are difficulties. Zoë is relegated to coach while her writers ride first class because the paranormals in charge don’t consider humans quite equal, their train is robbed by a bunch of ghosts in badly fitting cowboy costumes, and Arthur is refusing Zoë’s help and has knocked himself out with Benadryl for the trip so they can’t talk about it. Once in New Orleans Zoë starts assigning stories, but the sultry, playful, paranormal-rich ambiance of the city is not helping anyone’s focus, though it is quite entertaining to read about..
Zoë has mostly embraced her unusual job and new experiences, plunging ahead with all the determination and common sense she can muster even when it’s hard to tell ally from foe. While she sometimes has an attitude, Zoë always (almost) tries to do the right thing, even wanting to console a deeply depressed vampire co-worker who’s tempted to use her for comfort food. With great characters, ongoing suspense, plenty of surprises, and lots of laughs I finished Ghost Train to New Orleans longing for Zoë’s next adventure.
8 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
***Review Courtesy of All Things Urban Fantasy***
By Megan Christopher
With this sequel to THE SHAMBLING GUIDE TO NEW YORK, Mur Lafferty returns her readers to a world of vampires, zombies, dragons, and gods, most of whom are just looking for ways to pass their lengthy, or even immortal, lives. The pressure’s on Zoe Norris in GHOST TRAIN TO NEW ORLEANS, as the urban jungle she’s scouting for her next supernatural travel guide recognizes her as a rare creature known as a citytalker, and doesn’t want to let her go – especially when she’s determined to go straight into danger. GHOST TRAIN is a fun urban fantasy, with some clever ideas in a rich setting, but it’s tripped up by repetition, a few too many characters, and some flaws in the internal logic of the universe.
As I read, it became harder and harder for me to understand why everyone treated the travel guide like holy scripture, or some kind of stealth weapon. Zoe is repeatedly informed that as editor she has to be the ‘leader,’ in a way that suggests she’s leading them into battle. She won’t even fire a subordinate who constantly threatens to kill her (and really means it) because she doesn’t want to lose one of her best writers. The rest of the coterie staff treat the creation of the travel book like it’s life and death, even when there are literal life and death situations to worry about. I understand the importance of meeting deadlines, but unless the dead part is literal…
The travel guide framework allows Lafferty to imagine what a modern vampire hangout would look like, or where voodoo practitioners would get a cup of coffee. But a lot of urban fantasy does that, and what I thought was most clever about Lafferty’s story was her idea of citytalkers. Not only is it an unusual branch of magical ability, but it allows Lafferty to really delve into a city, and color each one with its own personality. Zoe is considered the ‘human’ member of the team, but soon learns that her own abilities are nothing to sneeze at, and the backstory on citytalkers and their role in the supernatural world makes her much more formidable. It’s also a lot of information to be delivered in one go.
There is quite a lot of exposition dumping, but I was more distracted by the repeat reminders of who particular characters are, or what their abilities are, or even their character traits. It feels as if Lafferty doesn’t trust her reader to remember these details, in which case she should think about paring down the group to focus on just a few members of the Subterranean Press team. ‘Morgen the Water Sprite’ has to be mentioned (full title, in case the reader forgets that Morgen is a fairy) a dozen times, and doesn’t actually appear in this book. Arthur, Zoe’s zombie-bitten boyfriend, will hopefully have a reduced role in future novels – not only is he the load in this story, he’s a racist jerk, too, and pretty unsympathetic despite his zombie problem.
GHOST TRAIN TO NEW ORLEANS reads like a collection of short stories where the stories are happening all at once. With so many characters dealing with their own problems, the greater threat against Zoe and New Orleans is hard to see until the very end. The real danger seems so much closer to home that half-way through the novel I agreed with every character who said she should quit, and I don’t think that was what Lafferty was hoping for.
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