This final book in the trilogy was rather special, as long as you love grit, grime, and the final act in a revenge fifteen years in the building. Join my 3-emails-a-year newsletter #prizes The 1st book has an average rating of 3.76, but the 53 of my readers/goodreads friends who've read it give it an average 4.11.Ĭertainly if you liked book 1 you will LOVE book 3. The range of reviews tell me that (as with any book) not everyone likes them, but if you liked my work, you may well love these. His greatest strength perhaps is in slick, witty, bitter, revealing dialogue. He wields the first person point of view masterfully, fully exposing the man at the pivot point of the tale without exposition or breaking character. Polansky writes great noir crime fiction, his plots are complex and draw you in, his characters are colorful and well drawn. Where the first two fascinated and entertained, this one will also make you care. There's a level of emotion in this book that was perhaps absent in the first two. This is the main course - this is where the payoffs you hadn't noticed building up are delivered. The first two books in this series (trilogy?) are excellent but when you get to She Who Waits you understand they were entrees. I'd call Polansky a writers' writer but that might imply he's not a readers' writer, and he's certainly that. I'm not alone in this, other authors I know have said it too. There's something about Polansky's writing that floats my boat. The one person who left him, broken and bitter, to become the man he is today. And behind them all waits the one person whose betrayal Warden never expected.
A hospital full of lunatics, a conspiracy against the corrupt new king, and a ghetto full of thieves and murderers stand between him and his slim hope for the future. But Warden must finally reckon with his terrible past if he can ever hope to escape it. Low Town is changing, faster than even he can control, and Warden knows that if he doesn't get out soon, he may never get out at all. But Warden's growing older, and the vultures are circling. As a younger man, Warden carried out more than his fair share of terrible deeds, and never as many as when he worked for the Black House. And Warden, long ago a respected agent in the formidable Black House, is now the most depraved Low Town denizen of them all. Low Town: the worst ghetto in the worst city in the Thirteen Lands. The third novel in the brilliant dark fantasy Low Town series
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