Just popping in quickly to tell you this ebook is on sale today (Friday) only. I read this several years ago (thanks, Ed!) and it sticks with me. It’s a wild ride, that’s for sure, I loved it. And yes, there’s a squid, oh, and not just any squid. And a talking tattoo!
Kraken by China Miéville ($3.99)
“One of the strangest, funniest, and flat-out scariest books you will read this—or any other—year. The London that comes to life in Kraken is a weird metropolis awash in secret currents of myth and magic, where criminals, police, cultists, and wizards are locked in a war to bring about—or prevent—the End of All Things.
In the Darwin Centre at London’s Natural History Museum, Billy Harrow, a cephalopod specialist, is conducting a tour whose climax is meant to be the Centre’s prize specimen of a rare Architeuthis dux—better known as the Giant Squid. But Billy’s tour takes an unexpected turn when the squid suddenly and impossibly vanishes into thin air.
As Billy soon discovers, this is the precipitating act in a struggle to the death between mysterious but powerful forces in a London whose existence he has been blissfully ignorant of until now, a city whose denizens—human and otherwise—are adept in magic and murder.”
Get it here: ebook ($3.99) and paperback ($14.40)
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