"The hip, knowing and sometimes hysterically funny narrative, interspersed with excerpts from the guide of the title, lurches along in splendid fashion. She brings a warm, humourous and startling fresh voice to the genre in The Shambling Guide to New York City." "Mur Lafferty is a bright, shining light in speculative fiction. "The Shambling Guide to New York City is a monstrously fun romp by one of our most engaging new authors."- Tim Pratt
A total delight from cover to cover."- Adam Christopher "A wild ride through the secret side of New York City, Mur Lafferty's mighty debut is urban fantasy the way it should be: fast, funny, with bags of action and characters you'll love. Mur is constantly inventive, always great fun and deserves every success."- Paul Cornell "Without Mur Lafferty, the SF genre would be a much duller place. I want to live in Mur's New York."- Cory Doctorow "Shows exactly why so many writers have been buzzing about Mur Lafferty for so many years: an unbeatable mixture of humor, heart, imagination, and characterization. to bits."- New York Times bestselling Tobias S. Zo 's romance with a Public Works agent lacks credibility, but excerpts from the guide and adventures at coterie hangouts make the novel an enjoyable tour of the city's supernatural side."An engagingly funny, and fun, romp through NYC. She becomes fast friends with a water sprite and a death goddess, has to fend off the attentions of an incubus, and starts self-defense training with Granny Good Mae, a homeless assassin with connections to the government anticoterie department called Public Works. Undeterred, she quickly takes to her job as managing editor for a coterie guidebook to New York. Desperate for work after a disastrous affair sends her back from Raleigh, N.C., to New York, guidebook expert Zo Norris applies for a gig with Underground Publishing and lands an interview with a company rep who turns out to be a vampire.
Surviving in New York City is tricky even if one doesn't encounter paranormal entities, but Lafferty's charming debut offers a helping hand for coterie ("monster is pejorative") and humans alike.
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