June Books 1) Palimpsest, by Catherynne M. Valente

[nwhyte]

Palimpsest probably gets my vote for the Hugo this year. Like The City & The City, its central device is a parallel place visible just out of the corner of one's eye; but where Miéville takes this concept as background, hangs a murder mystery over it, and then disappoints with the big reveal at the end, in Valente's book the parallel city

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[rosefox]

Your Blackberry seems to have cut off the end of this review. Tease!

[nwhyte]

I was completely seduced!