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Sama's father is hospitalized after a heart attack, and given only a month to live. A stranger at the hospital tells Sama that he can find a cure for his father, the Sugar Stone, a magical healing item, but it is located in the mysterious realm of Undertown. All Sama needs to do is crawl under his bed, close his eyes, and countdown from ten to one.
Popular Urban Fantasy Books, Goodreads; Amazon.com, Best Urban Fantasy Series, by Jace King (Seattle, WA USA) BestFantasyBooks.com, Best Urban Fantasy Books; All Things Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Picks: The 10 Best Urban Fantasy Series, Posted: November 19, 2012
Retrospective reviews of King's work note that he "brought reality to genre novels", [43] and have remarked that "Jerusalem's Lot is the main character here, a warm-up for what King would later do with his beloved fictional towns of Derry and Castle Rock. We're given a vivid description, details and foibles, before the town is populated with a ...
Urban fiction, also known as street lit or street fiction, is a literary genre set in a city landscape; however, the genre is as much defined by the socio-economic realities and culture of its characters as the urban setting. The tone for urban fiction is usually dark, focusing on the underside of city living.
In the book Neuwirth draws on his experiences to argue that much can be learnt from the self-organization and adaptability of squatters worldwide. [2] He also gives a partial history of slums in such places as London, New York and Paris, suggesting that informal settlements are an integral part of urbanization and concluding on an optimistic ...
The book describes her extensive garden in Ghost Town, a run-down neighborhood about a mile from downtown Oakland, California. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Farm City was listed by some reviewers as one of the top books of 2009, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and it was the 2014 selection of the Marin County Free Library , City Public Libraries of Marin County and Dominican ...
The book is written in first-person POV. Dye's narrative is clipped, matter-of-fact, and unembellished, though wickedly incisive on personal and social matters. While he is capable of acting decisively and forcefully, Dye's overall manner is apathetic and unmotivated, except (slightly) by money.
It was positively received and later re-issued by Argo in 2005 under Urban's real name. [3] Later the same year, Urban released his best-known work, The Seven Churches, [4] (Czech: Sedmikostelí), a Gothic historical thriller set in New Town, Prague, about a man named Kvetoslav Svach, and how he is linked to murders in seven cathedrals of the city.