My mum recommended it to me and I tried my best but I have just dropped it to read the Hunger Games instead. Maybe I feel this way as I have not read the book that came before, but I really just couldn't get hooked to this. Itinerant biker chick Tesla Bombeck leads the way to Everville, a sleepy small town in Oregon about to be savaged by the passage of the Iad Uroboros-a mindless, evil juggernaut bent to Kissoon's will-through a rip in the veil between Cosm and Metacosm.ĭetermined to thwart Kissoon, Bombeck enlists the aid of several cronies, among them Catholic gumshoe Harry D'Amour, a tattooed student of necromancy computer archivist Nathan Grillo, guardian of the novel's paranormal Internet and Phoebe Cobb, an Everville resident whose lover, Joe Flicker, has fled to Quiddity Read more
It's back to the shores of Quiddity, the undulant dream sea that separates worldly Cosm from the trippy Metacosm, for a restaging of the epic struggle for the Art, major magic that was last coveted by the infinitely wicked Kissoon, who sponsored the previous battle to control this transcendental force.
Opening the door between worlds, Clive Barker delivers his characters into the heart of the human mystery into a place of revelation, where the forces which have shaped our past-and are ready to destroy our future-are at work. For years it has lived in ignorance of the gleaming shore on which it lies. On the borderland between this world and the world of Quiddity, the sea of our dreams, sits Everville.
From New York Times bestselling author Clive Barker comes the spectacular sequel to his masterpiece of dark fantasy The Great and Secret Show that reveals once again the age-old battle between good and evil.
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