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The Neon Court
by kate Griffin

Release Date TBC

Publisher: Little Brown
ISBN: 978 1 8414 9901 7
RRP: £7.99

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Griffin's 21st century take on magic is a fantasist's euphoria...

Matthew Swift, aka The Midnight Mayor, aka the Electric Blue Angels is back for another run in with darkness, all things evil and a blast from the past. Summarily deposited into a burning building by a magical summoning, Swift comes face to face with a very much altered Oda (aka the psychotic-b**ch), but is too preoccupied with not burning to death to concern himself with the hows, whys and wherefores. Unfortunately, his lack of foresight comes back to bite him as it turns out that Oda is the reason for the sun not rising. That, and the re-emergence of the creature known as ‘Blackout’. Fighting darkness isn’t ever enough though; there is also an impending inter-magical species war , a lost ‘chosen one’ and the longer the sun doesn’t rise the more of London is disappearing into a black void. Swift is not having a good day and it’s starting to show.

Griffin really gets stuck in with The Neon Court. Along with the usual eclectic magical methodology, we are introduced to such highly creative concepts as the questionable reality of the world lost between the cracks, the evolution of the original Faerie court, the existence of the reclusive Tribe in all their mutilated glory and the rather matter of fact statement that you can capture a person’s last breath and inhaling it has some interesting effects… Suffice it to say that with an imagination like Griffin’s our world must seem rather dull and bland.

The Neon Court also sees Griffin focus on the relationship between master and apprentice. Swift’s new apprentice, Penny (the one who accidently summoned the ‘death of cities’ last time we met her), remains a bit of an enigma despite her ruinous temper and foul language peppering the pages and curiously, Griffin appears to have no interest is making her more likeable. Even Swift aka the Electric Blue Angels are more approachable and more human-like. Unlike its predecessor, The Midnight Mayor, there is more political intrigue and conspiracy within the plot. In fact, the plot itself is a reality-bending confluence of abstracts, half-formed thoughts and repressed emotions. Griffin creates an astonishingly frenetic narrative that toes the line between genius and madness – and for that, we love her. Her version of magic, London and the convoluted nature of the eternal battle between light and darkness is an adrenaline fuelled nightmare that you just don’t want to wake up from.

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