I can't decide whether I like Lisa Goldstein's Strange Devices of the Sun and Moon. I certainly don't dislike it, but it hasn't really grabbed me the way that some others have. Still, I can't stop thinking about it, turning it over in my mind.
Goldstein's urban fantasy novel is set in Elizabethan England, with historical characters like Queen Elizabeth and Christopher Marlowe juxtaposed against fantastical or anachronistic elements: fairies, dragons, and shotguns. The odd thing is that the magic doesn't drive the plot. It's there, of course, but the book isn't about magic. It's about the characters who, in their own ways, are all trying to make sense of their crazy world.
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