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Loading... Drinking Midnight Wine (2001)by Simon R. Green
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Ordinary Brit follows beautiful woman thru portal to "Mysterie" from "Realitie" and becomes "focus" to foil satan's plan to destroy the world. Picked this up in Kindle a while back as it was cheap enough to replace my print edition. Finally finished it - but I did finish it in the end unlike Clive Barker's Weaveworld. It has a similar premise to Weaveworld in that there is a 'otherworld' existing bedside ours, but is rather lighter in execution. Toby Dexter is a perfectly ordinary wage-slave in Bath commuting every day from Bradford-on-Avon, and falls in love with a woman he sees on his train but doesn't have the courage to talk to her. Leaving the station on the way home one day, they are caught out by unexpected rain and Toby follows her through a door that doesn't exist - into the realm of Mysterie (from Toby's realm of Verite). Things are happening in both worlds - and Toby turns out to be a focal point - his actions and decisions will decide the fate of both worlds. Yes, it's urban fantasy, but it's gritty not the usual sparkly girly fare. Well-written and enjoyable. no reviews | add a review
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HTML:There is a world beyond the world It figures. Just when Bradfordian bookshop clerk, Toby Dexter, finally works up the nerve to talk to his secret crush, she darts into an open door. Toby follows, and in that second, everything changes. Though it still looks like Bradford-on-Avon, the town's suddenly chatty ATM and river mermaids are the first clues that something is quite out of place—namely, Toby. The moment he stepped through that door, Toby entered the magical parallel world of Mysterie. Our ordinary dimension—the one Toby knew as Bradford-on-Avon—is actually Veritie, a mere shadow of its alter ego, Mysterie, where magic and myth, gods and monsters, living legends and walking nightmares reign. And Toby isn't the only recent arrival. A cunning and vicious demon—The Serpent's Son—has returned to Mysterie, accompanied by a malevolent new ally, intent on bringing down both dimensions. Toby can remain mortal, return to Veritie, and try to convince himself that he had a bad pint of bitter that night. Or he can stay in Mysterie, join forces with his new friends Leo Morn and his Brother Under The Hill, and try to stop The Serpent's Son. The choices Toby makes will have dramatic consequences for both worlds. It may not be the first time Mysterie's wars have spilled over into our reality, but if Toby fails, it could be the last. Simon R. Green, New York Times bestselling author of the Deathstalker series and the Nightside series, brings his trademark wit and inventiveness to his beloved hometown of Bradford-on-Avon, in this charming standalone urban fantasy novel. No library descriptions found. |
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