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A travel writer takes a job with a shady publishing company in New York, only to find that she must write a guide to the city - for the undead!
Because of the disaster that was her last job, Zoe is searching for a fresh start as a travel book editor in the tourist-centric New York City. After stumbling across a seemingly perfect position though, Zoe is blocked at every turn because of the one thing she can't take off her resume --- human.
Not to be put off by anything -- especially not her blood drinking boss or death goddess coworker -- Zoe delves deep into the monster world. But her job turns deadly when the careful balance between human and monsters starts to crumble -- with Zoe right in the middle.
- Sales Rank: #672654 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Orbit
- Published on: 2013-05-28
- Released on: 2013-05-28
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.25" h x 1.00" w x 5.50" l, .70 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 368 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
From Booklist
*Starred Review* Most new hires try to negotiate a higher salary. When Zoe takes a job editing a new travel-book series for Underground Publications, she needs to decide whether to get paid in hell notes, blood tokens, occult favors, or regular dollars. In Lafferty’s entirely believable world, New York City is secretly inhabited by vampires, zombies, fay folk, and assorted monsters. Public Works not only takes care of streets and sanitation, they are also responsible for keeping the balance between humans and “coterie”—the preferred term for nonhumans. Zoe’s pretty tough, and she thinks she can handle her assignment of creating a coterie guidebook to the city. But she’s ill-prepared for what awaits her in the underworld and soon finds herself succumbing to the erotic advances of an incubus coworker, tracking down raging zombies, and ultimately getting involved in an epic battle for the (literal) soul of the city. This is a funny, thoughtfully conceived, and thoroughly entertaining romp that will be a sure bet for urban-fantasy readers—and might even surprise people who don’t think they’d enjoy a paranormal novel. --Rebecca Vnuk
Review
"If Buffy grew up, got therapy and found a real job, it would look like this."―Scott Sigler
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"What, you thought only humans wanted to travel? Monsters are tourists, too."―New York Times bestseller Scott Sigler
"The hip, knowing and sometimes hysterically funny narrative, interspersed with excerpts from the guide of the title, lurches along in splendid fashion. Combine wit, style and acute observation: the result is irresistible."―Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)
"Charming debut... an enjoyable tour of the city's supernatural side."―Publishers Weekly
"The Shambling Guide to New York City shows that Mur Lafferty has something different to bring to the urban fantasy genre. She's created a character that can experience the human/non-human dynamic via researching a travel guide, which we'd never see through the usual detectives and ass-kicking central characters, and with snappy dialogue, a creative cast and can-do central characters, we have fun tagging along."―Gavin Pugh, tor.com
"In Lafferty's entirely believable world, New York City is secretly inhabited by vampires, zombies, fay folk, and assorted monsters. ... This is a funny, thoughtfully conceived, and thoroughly entertaining romp that will be a sure bet for urban-fantasy readers - and might even surprise people who don't think they'd enjoy a paranormal novel."
―Booklist (Starred Review)
"Well-written and immersive...a travel series you'll definitely want to stick with."―SFX
"An extremely exciting and incredibly amusing read."―SciFiNow.co.uk (5 stars)
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.
Most helpful customer reviews
19 of 20 people found the following review helpful.
Ludicrously fun and clever
By Tim Crist
I've been a fan of Mur Lafferty's work for years, most notably the Afterlife series and the criminally-underappreciated "Marco and the Red Granny" as well as many of her short stories, and I was very excited to be able to check out her first officially-published book. I was definitely not disappointed - this is a wonderfully fun story with a very clever take on a world where vampires, sprites, goddesses, golems, and zombies live among us, their secrecy maintained through the vigilant ignorance of human society.
The biggest difference between this and Ms. Lafferty's earlier work is that the narration seems more conversational and witty throughout. I often found myself laughing at the way situations were presented as much as I did the situations themselves. The protagonist is believable and very easy to root for as she faces down both supernatural and human challenges in various combinations, the supporting cast is a fantastically unique array of monsters (sorry, coterie) that have in most cases managed to find a way to pull together despite their oft-conflicting and occasionally-horrific needs, and the mix of humor, tension, horror, character-building, and epic spectacle is dead on.
I'm definitely in for the rest of the series.
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
Strong intro that lost me in the end.
By Tim Ward
REVIEW SUMMARY: A fun story of New York City's monsters trying to destroy a likable writer who just wants to get over her past, meet a good guy, and finish her tour guide of the city's secret culture.
MY RATING: 3 Stars
BRIEF SYNOPSIS: A down-and-out writer is hired by a monster-run publishing company to write a tour guide to the monster underbelly of New York City. Her research leads to attacks by incubuses, zombies, golems and a secret villain who wants to turn the city on its head and unleash the brewing war between human and monster.
MY REVIEW
PROS: Likable heroine; fun supporting cast; creative world building that almost makes you want this kind of New York City to exist; establishes setting for many exciting stories.
CONS: The safeguards that allowed the heroine to intermingle with the monster culture also guarded the reader from feeling truly afraid for her life; humor fell flat too often; the ending jeopardizes future interest in this series.
BOTTOM LINE: The Shambling Guide to New York City starts out well enough to keep you reading, gets even better in the middle, and may or may not satisfy in the end. Unfortunately, for this reader the ending watered down the experience.
In The Shambling Guide to New York City, the main character, Zoe, is immediately likable. She acknowledges a somewhat innocent mistake that has caused her to start fresh where she grew up, New York City. The book makes a profound statement about how a city can feel alive, which created a strong connection to the heroine's perspective and a desire to live this story through her. She is not only perceptive to the surreal, but she's also desperate to survive and succeed. The job she finds introduces her to a secret culture of monsters operating in NYC under the moderation of the Public Works Department -- talk about a surrealist's dreamworld. You keep reading because you want this quirky writer and her stubbornness to succeed and survive in a job working with monsters that want to eat her, have incubus sex with her, kill her, or just plain make her quit.
In spite of these threats, there was barely ever a fear that she was really going to suffer. The tone was more like a trip to an amusement park or zoo than as if she were meeting these monsters in their natural habitat. The heroine's humor is hit-or-miss on making you laugh out loud, and is helped out by a few secondary characters making jokes. The light-hearted tone had a place in adding interest in the story, but a better balance between humor and believable danger would have been welcome. There are hints where the narrative reminds the reader of real danger, but the heroine is almost always rescued. The stakes rose in the middle -- including an excellent fight scene with a giant snake -- but as soon as the golems appeared at the airport, the story read more like a cartoon.
This sense of watching a cartoon increased with an airplane golem tearing a hole in the ceiling, and a golem that formed out of flying buildings. This may have been too far-fetched, or maybe just lacked more touch on description, but the result was this reader emotionally detached from the story. The irony there is that the author explains how society does not know about monsters because their existence is too hard to accept, and then the same thing that happened to this reader. The issue with the unrealistic tone of the novel could just be a matter of preference. Your mileage may vary.
Without keeping count, it also seems like the heroine was bailed out of her problems a lot more than she actively resolved them, especially at the end. The supporting cast is a very interesting set of characters, but they may have been too active, and the result was watching the ending happen instead of being the force that caused the story to end.
There are more reasons to like The Shambling Guide to New York City than to dismiss it. It's an addicting read that I don't regret picking up, and my disappointment in the ending is partly enhanced by how much I liked the first two-thirds.
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
All over the place in terms of what it wanted to be
By Amazon Customer
On the one hand I'm not sure how to review this book. I expected something along the lines of tongue-in-cheek humor and writing (kind of like The Princess Bride) in which Lafferty subverts the supernatural genre while still somehow adhering to it.
We have Zoe, who made some really bad decisions as part of her last job in publishing and is now desperate to put it all behind her. So desperate that she ignores the iota of self-preservation she seems to have, follows a shady, kind of flirty man into a condemned looking building on the off chance he may actually work with the OTHER shady guy she had met earlier at an even SHADIER bookstore who was posting up a job notice. Both of whom told her to run away, several times, because she wasn't suited for the job.
But Zoe prides herself on fitting in! She's a little shaky on if they turn out to be skinheads or a cult, but any other type of people she can totally fit right into and she is OUTRAGED that these people are telling her otherwise. Who are they to know if she's able to fit in? She's adaptable! She's qualified! Affirmative Action!
And so begins her adventures in the Coterie (read: MONSTER, Boogedy-Boogedys, Supernatural, Paranormal, Freaky) World.
Here's the thing, the book goes on at length to explain that Zoe is very qualified (from a publishing perspective) for the job of Managing Editor, but how is that exactly? She's literally learning from a point of no knowledge about the Coterie World at all. Call me odd, but wouldn't it make more sense to have someone supervising (and writing! She was writing part of the books!) who understood that you shouldn't look this type of Coterie in the eye and you shouldn't allow this type to touch you?
In the span of the book I'm fairly sure she breaks every rule the others tell her about. It was kind of like telling a three year old. "Now Zoe, don't touch the incubus!" Let me just go ahead and MAKE OUT with the Incubus because that can't POSSIBLY go badly right?
This is her logic.
To be fair while I was reading the book I did find myself interested in the world of the Coterie and how they've managed to live side by side with humans. There's also some interesting creepy-crawlies that pop around that you don't find in most paranormal/supernatural books. And I probably would have been more interested in what makes Zoe so unique if by the time its revealed I wasn't ripping my hair out trying to figure out how she hasn't died twenty times.
And how she got a job in publishing to begin with since every time she's busy doing her editor's job it fades to black, gets interrupted or we see the final product (in between the chapters there are excerpts from the actual "book" she's editing), but we never see her doing any of her job. Brief bit about interviewing, even briefer bit about handing out assignments and...that's all.
In the end I was disappointed by the book. The few moments of honest humor didn't make up for the fact the book was all over the place in terms of what it wanted to be.
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