I think I know by now what evil really is

[sovay]

I am evidently not the target audience for Tim Powers' Hide Me Among the Graves (2012), which rushthatspeaks has been reading and describing to me; I think that if one of your central characters is vampire John Polidori, people should always be asking him if he got it from Lord Byron and he should be so tired of having to tell them ("Byron wasn't even a vampire, damn it!") no.

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Powers' books are always curate's eggs for me. Parts of The Stress of Her Regard are outstandingly good, a lot of it isn't. I still love The Anubis Gates though, with the circular, literary plot.

[sovay]

Powers' books are always curate's eggs for me.

I loved The Drawing of the Dark (1979) and seem to have bounced off everything else of his I've ever tried, although I feel that I should check out On Stranger Tides (1987) for all the obvious reasons.