Declare

Another book by Tim Powers under my belt and I have to say I'm not a fan. I thought this book was overblown. At nearly 600 pages, I found myself mentally editing out bloated character backgrounds and repetition. Although, some of the repetition was useful when my mind wandered and needed to refresh what exactly was going on. This book is a combination spy and fantasy novel, but you don't get an inkling of the fantasy until about halfway through, especially with double agents. My forte is not remembering who is spying for which country at what point in time, and keeping all the spies straight in my head. The fantasy part was about the djinn, which normally would have kept me going, but I even had trouble with that. This book won the 2001 World Fantasy Award and was nominated for a slew of others.

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