I’d expected to get a bit of reviewing done yesterday, but then someone informed me that it was in fact St. Patrick’s Day, and, rather than celebrating (as everyone, Irish and non-Irish does) with copious amounts of alcohol, I was expected to celebrate my father’s birthday instead. Slightly taken aback at this ridiculous tradition, I needed a gritty, dark, urban fantasy to set me back on the straight and narrow…
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Some people leave home and go off to college, others exit the nest to pursue a new career. In Capac Raimi’s case, it’s a bit of both, as he steps off a train in a large, unnamed city to be schooled in his chosen line of work as a gangster.
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Procession of the Dead is the latest novel from Darren O’Shaughnessy, writing under the pen name D B Shan. O’Shaughnessy is one of Ireland’s most successful genre authors - his children’s fantasy and horror series The Saga Of Darren Shan and The Demonata are on sale in 35 countries and in 28 languages.
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This is Darren Shan’s first foray into adult fiction, and to be honest, I’m not as comfortable with it as I am with his young adult stuff. Procession of the Dead is a manuscript he wrote long before his current run of outstanding success, and I don’t think it’s as good, frankly. Readable, but it doesn’t grip you in the same way.
Reviewed by Paul Edmund Norman
This is D B Shan’s first book. Well, actually it’s not, because D B Shan is actually the amazing children’s author Darren Shan, but this is his first book exclusively for adults and the first in a new trilogy. Originally written in 1999 under the title Ayuamarca and the pseudonym Darren O’Shaughnessy, it has been given a complete overhaul and this is what Shan is calling the Director’s Cut.
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Capac Raimi arrives in the city to join his uncle’s business, that of small time gangster. He quickly learns the ropes but soon finds himself brought to the attention of The Cardinal. The Cardinal is the gangster who runs the entire city and nothing happens in this city without the the knowledge or approval of The Cardinal.
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