The Ghost Train to New Orleans
2014 • 352 pages
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COULD YOU FIND A MUSEUM FOR A MONSTER? OR A JAZZ BAR FOR A JABBERWOCK? Zoe writes travel guides for the undead. And she's good at it too - her new-found ability to talk to cities seems to help. After the success of The Shambling Guide to New York City, Zoe and her team are sent to New Orleans to write the sequel. Her career isn't all that brings her to New Orleans. The only person who can save Zoe's boyfriend from zombism is rumoured to live in the city's swamps, but she's out of her element in the wilderness. With her supernatural colleagues waiting to see her fail, and rumours of a new threat hunting citytalkers, can Zoe stay alive long enough to finish her next book?
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2 primary booksThe Shambling Guides is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 2013 with contributions by Mur Lafferty.
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I've been eagerly awaiting for The Ghost Train to New Orleans as soon as I heard it was being worked on. Campbell Award winning author, Mur Lafferty is a great writer and has done an amazing job in blending a supernatural world (also known as coterie in her books) in with believable settings and characters. Editor, Zoe Norris, is on assignment in the Big Easy and once again she's being dragged into nefarious plans.Zoe is a great character who's quirky and geeky, and still trying to figure out how to deal with the supernatural while keeping to her travel book schedules. Part of the reason I love these books is due to the snippets of travel book writing that Mur adds in-between chapters. It really does show her RPG word building background and makes the world she created alive. Now I'm totally looking forward to the 3rd book in this series. Thanks for continuing to show us all why you're mighty, Mur and I hope you're hard at work on the next installment.
