Joe Golem And The Drowning City Deluxe Hardcover (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
Pretty decent book overall. I can't say that I *liked* it, but I definitely wasn't bored to tears or anything trying to get through it. It's a little slow to pick up and hook you, which is unfortunate if no one's told you--hang on until Chapter Six! It gets exciting.*****SPOILER!*****I don't think this is a book about the characters--at least, not in the living, breathing, talking entity sense. I think this is actually about the events of the city. Molly and Joe and Dr. Church and Felix aren't very developed in my opinion but I felt like I knew the Drowning City very well. Anyone who knows New York will find this fascinating and fun for that reason. This book was amazing, changed my writing, and inspired me to read all of Christopher Golden's works, but it was even more than that. It gripped my emotions and wouldn't let go, not until the last page was read. When I finished it, I immediately went out and grabbed another of Chris's works off the shelves.JOE GOLEM was deeply poetic while being so fast paced that I enjoyed every minute I was reading it. Definitely a must read for fans of Lovecraft, Hellboy, Guillermo Del Toro, Machen, Libba Bray's THE DIVINERS, or fans of occult detective stories in general. I think what I enjoyed most was that as I read Molly's story of losing her surrogate father Orlof and having to team up with a clockwork detective and his golem Joe, I never knew what was coming. Not as they look for an ancient relic in a graveyard and stumble on a "still living" dead man's tree, or as Molly gets kidnapped and Joe must find her, or as Molly finds out what her surrogate father actually is.A definite must-read for fans of thriller-horror detective stories that beautifully captures the fear of the Lovecraftian old gods that might be lurking just outside our reality.
What do You think about Joe Golem And The Drowning City Deluxe Hardcover (2012)?
nope. next time draw the damn book, mignola. this outsourcing thing just doesn't work.
—dkhoury
Very interesting concept about the futuristic drowned city of New York!!
—blossomkika
Imaginative and interesting, but the ending dragged on a bit.
—Yei
