Sort of screwball fun, in a 'jam all possible kinds of magic into one world, and then make them all public knowledge' way, but it palled for me because a lot of his research, especially into mystical Judaism (which his protagonist practices -- and he IS Jewish, himself, the author) are ridiculously wrong. Wrong in an 'even looking at Wikipedia once would have solved the problem' way.
If you don't know details of how a lot of this stuff works, or is said to work, in our world, you may well enjoy the book more than I did. :->
If you don't know details of how a lot of this stuff works, or is said to work, in our world, you may well enjoy the book more than I did. :->
Harry Turtledove is a well-known name in F/SF and his style comes through in this imaginative book. If you like PIs and the tough, hard-boiled kind of main hero, you'll love the protaganist, a government employee. And things only get better from there in the complicated, magic drenched world that was created.
