5 stars The Festival of Hungry Ghosts is such a fun and imaginative romp with an intense pacing that almost feels too much at times I had a blast reading it In this novel set in LA in the 1930s Stephen Frame blends Western and Eastern mythology with an engaging old school detective story in a very creative way and fills it to the brim with weird and interesting characters The action scenes ain t half bad either I can t wait to see what happens next D And maybe learn about what really happened in Fairyland So if you had a thing for Wolf played by Scott Cohen in The 10th Kingdom are a fan of Fables by Bill Willingham and the video game The Wolf Among Us this book is for you Stephen Frame The Festival of Hungry Ghosts is a mix of mystery and fantasy The story is set in Los Angeles during the 1930s. The Festival of Hungry Ghosts kindle app Private Investigator BB Wolf escaped from Fairyland and the evil ruling elves in the past he d captured other escapees and returned them to Fairyland but lately he s just a regular humanoid wolf and a poor investigator Without regular contact with the elven magic his enhanced senses have dulled. The Festival of Hungry ghostsjoy The neighbourhood where BB works and lives is a mix of racial communities with darker threats of gangsters who fight over protection fees drugs gambling and booze Almost penniless and desperate for work BB is drawn into the gangster life when he tries to protect a Chinese family. Book The Festival of Hungry ghostscript Reflecting the author s love of noir mystery and fantasy worlds this story laces Chinese myth with Western fairy tales Keeping a good pace the story follows BB as he tries to solve a kidnapping and protect his friends while tolerating a new slippery foxy partner I enjoyed the era of the story particularly the Chinese themes and events The references to fairy tales held their own in a no nonsense way and had me cheering on BB until the very end Stephen Frame I was pleasantly surprised with this book Don t be thrown off or misled by the cover if you like a twist on classic fairy tales action adventure and or cop dramas or in this case private detective dramas then this book could be for you Find my full review here Stephen Frame

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He was a big bad wolf and he left Fairyland in 1929 to go work as a private detective in Los Angeles He s got a new case he doesn t want finding the kidnapped son of a local crime lord He s got a new partner he doesn t trust a chaotic female gangster who likes dames booze and bullets Those are just the start of his problems There are monsters in his way And not all of them are human The Festival of Hungry Ghosts Once upon a time there was a wolf.

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