REVIEW: Cry Murder! in a Small Voice, Greer Gilman

[angevin2]

Greer Gilman's Cry Murder! in a Small Voice (Small Beer Press, 2013) doesn't obey the unities.

This would have vexed its protagonist, poet-playwright-cum-private investigator Ben Jonson, whose narrative voice (like that of the real thing) is frequently driven by irritation with the world around him and especially with people who just don't

Comments

[nineweaving]

Thank you. That is the story that I hoped I'd written. I wanted to do justice to Ben and his world of poets and players.

The sequel is a thriller, involving Inigo Jones, Queen Mab, Kit Marlowe's ghost, and the succession.

Nine

[angevin2]

Thank you for writing it! It was splendid. And the sequel sounds SO MUCH FUN.

[nineweaving]

I hope so!

Nine

[angevin2]

It is out! It was just released recently -- they just haven't updated the website properly, so it's still listed as forthcoming. Anyway, it's well worth the ten bucks. :)

[tempestsarekind]

Greer Gilman's Cry Murder! in aSmall Voice (Small Beer Press, 2013) doesn't obey the unities.

*giggle*

Thanks for this review; you've definitely sold the book to me (especially as someone who always *wants* to like books set in this period, but then gives up on them thirty pages in because the language or the characters' mindsets start to grate).

[angevin2]

Oh, you should definitely read it! I think it's the sort of thing that's right up your alley (you're interested in boy players, right?)

[tempestsarekind]

Ha ha ha, am I interested in boy players, she says. :) How very *much* am I interested in boy players, that's the real question!

[angevin2]

Yay, my memory is correct! Because when I read it one of my initial reactions was "OMG tempestsarekind would LOVE THIS."