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The Dirty Streets of Heaven
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Start date
November 1, 2012
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December 1, 2012

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Jenny (Reading Envy)
Oct 29, 2012 marked it as did-not-finish
Shelves: sword-and-laser
Just couldn't get into it, but still want to read Tad Williams, maybe I'll try his sci-fi. I blame my upbringing, but I just can't get excited about angels. ...more
Eric
Aug 13, 2012 rated it really liked it
Shelves: urban-fantasy
Despite growing up reading all the fantasy novels I could get my hands on, and Memory, Sorrow and Thorn being a very well respected and popular fantasy trilogy from that time, I had never read any Tad Williams before this book -- which I will have to remedy in the near future, at the expense of my ever lengthening to-read shelf.

This book, and the forthcoming series, is not the sword-and-sorcery type of novel that Williams cut his teeth writing, but a modern, urban fantasy. But where most urban f
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kvon
Dec 13, 2012 rated it it was ok
Shelves: librarybook, lemmed
Lost my interest in the mystery and had to return it to the library.
Joanna
Sep 21, 2012 rated it really liked it
It took me forever to finish this book, but it's not this book's fault. It's actually very good. A noir detective story with angels and demons. Really cool concept and very well executed. Very cool characters, even the minor characters were fun. It does start slow, which is why I'm detracting a star, but once it gets going it doesn't stop. ...more
Jennifer
Sep 10, 2012 marked it as to-read
Nikki
Sep 14, 2012 marked it as to-read
Amanda
Sep 14, 2012 marked it as to-read
Emily
Sep 16, 2012 rated it did not like it
Melissa
Sep 21, 2012 marked it as to-read
Tom Merritt
Oct 01, 2012 rated it it was amazing
Jeremy Kane
Oct 16, 2012 rated it really liked it
Andrei Rybin
Oct 24, 2012 rated it really liked it
Shelves: fatasy
Nick Hershberger
Oct 28, 2012 rated it liked it
William
Nov 08, 2012 rated it liked it
Shelves: fantasy, fiction
Tegan
Nov 09, 2012 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: urban-fantasy
Andres
Nov 17, 2012 rated it really liked it
Shelves: kindle
Jim
Jan 02, 2013 rated it really liked it
Shelves: modern-fantasy
Matt
Jan 05, 2013 rated it liked it
Anita
Jan 13, 2013 rated it liked it
Sarah
Mar 07, 2013 marked it as to-read
Tristan
Mar 14, 2013 rated it really liked it
Jennifer
Jun 10, 2013 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Christina
Aug 22, 2013 marked it as to-read
Melissa
Sep 11, 2013 marked it as to-read
Russ
Dec 15, 2013 rated it it was amazing
David Raynes
Dec 26, 2013 rated it really liked it
Peter
Jan 03, 2014 marked it as to-read
Christopher M.
Jan 20, 2014 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
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