Thraxas

Martin Scott is a pseudonym for Martin Millar, the author of the only book I ever gave zero stars, "The Good Fairies of New York". It was before I wrote reviews, but on the WWEnd site I gave it ½ a star because there was no way to enter zero. It was an atrociously written story of Irish fairies that make it to New York get into mischief and throw up a lot from drinking too much. So I was very hesitant reading this book which won the 2000 World Fantasy Award. Fortunately, there was only a few hangover and vomit scenes and the elves had an herbal cure for it. This book wasn't too bad, a noir PI tale with a fair amount of tongue in cheek humor set in a fantasy world somewhere between ancient Rome and Middle Earth. But it didn't grab me the way I expect an award winner to.

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