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The Shambling Guide to New York City
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A travel writer takes a job with a shady publishing company in New York, only to find that she must write a guide to the city — for the undead!
Because of the disaster that was her last job, Zoe is searching for a fresh start as a travel book editor in the tourist-centric New York City. After stumbling across a seemingly perfect position though, Zoe is blocked at every turn because of the one thing she can't take off her resume — human.
Not to be put off by anything — especially not her blood drinking boss or death goddess coworker — Zoe delves deep into the monster world. But her job turns deadly when the careful balance between human and monsters starts to crumble — with Zoe right in the middle.
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Because of the disaster that was her last job, Zoe is searching for a fresh start as a travel book editor in the tourist-centric New York City. After stumbling across a seemingly perfect position though, Zoe is blocked at every turn because of the one thing she can't take off her resume — human.
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      • source: Scott Sigler
      • content: If Buffy grew up, got therapy and found a real job, it would look like this.
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      • source: Kat Richardson
      • content: Mur Lafferty's debut novel is a must-read book for those who like their urban fantasy fast, furious, and funny. Terrific stuff!
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      • source: New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire
      • content: This is a great start to what promises to be one of the gems of the comic urban fantasy crown. The Shambling Guide sets the wonderful world of the supernatural—and the slightly more esoteric world of travel guide publishing—on its ear, and the result is nothing short of delightful.
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      • source: New York Times bestselling Tobias S. Buckell
      • content: An engagingly funny, and fun, romp through NYC. You'll love Zoe... to bits.
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      • source: Cory Doctorow
      • content: 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. I want to live in Mur's New York.
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      • source: Paul Cornell
      • content: Without Mur Lafferty, the SF genre would be a much duller place. Mur is constantly inventive, always great fun and deserves every success.
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      • source: Adam Christopher
      • content: 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. A total delight from cover to cover.
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      • source: James Patrick Kelly, Hugo and Nebula Award Winner
      • content: Zombies and vampires and golems, oh my! The Shambling Guide to New York City rounds up the biggest cast of the undead and never-quite-alive ever to appear in a single novel, along with a wisecracking heroine whose picture belongs over the dictionary entry for spunky. This is a comic tour-de-force by a writer who lives and breathes popular culture. Mur Lafferty is throwing a monster party and you're invited.
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      • source: Kaaron Warren
      • content: Mur Lafferty is a bright, shining light in speculative fiction. She brings a warm, humourous and startling fresh voice to the genre in The Shambling Guide to New York City.
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      • source: Connie Willis
      • content: Looking for a very different kind of travel guide? One that shows you the real Manhattan? The one the tourists haven't discovered yet, but the vampires and the watersprites have? Then The Shambling Guide to New York City is just what you need!With really interesting restaurant recs and sightseeing suggestions, and unusual (to say the least) takes on the Statue of Liberty and Grant's Tomb, it's got everything you need to know for the trip of a lifetime—or longer! And with the smart and intrepid Zoe to show you around, how could you possibly get in trouble? I give it 5 Michelin stars and 8 Zombie Planet Thumbs Up (with real thumbs)!
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      • source: New York Times bestseller Scott Sigler
      • content: What, you thought only humans wanted to travel? Monsters are tourists, too.
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      • source: Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)
      • content: The hip, knowing and sometimes hysterically funny narrative, interspersed with excerpts from the guide of the title, lurches along in splendid fashion. Combine wit, style and acute observation: the result is irresistible.
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      • source: Publishers Weekly
      • content: Charming debut... an enjoyable tour of the city's supernatural side.
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      • source: Gavin Pugh, tor.com
      • content: The Shambling Guide to New York City shows that Mur Lafferty has something different to bring to the urban fantasy genre. She's created a character that can experience the human/non-human dynamic via researching a travel guide, which we'd never see through the usual detectives and ass-kicking central characters, and with snappy dialogue, a creative cast and can-do central characters, we have fun tagging along.
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        April 1, 2013
        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. Desperate for work after a disastrous affair sends her back from Raleigh, N.C., to New York, guidebook expert Zoë Norris applies for a gig with Underground Publishing and lands an interview with a company rep who turns out to be a vampire. Undeterred, she quickly takes to her job as managing editor for a coterie guidebook to New York. 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. Zoë’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.

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        Starred review from March 15, 2013
        From the author of Playing for Keeps (2008), a comedic fantasy about monsters and New Yorkers--and, as residents will be unsurprised to learn, monsters who are New Yorkers. Fresh from the North Carolina train wreck that was her previous job--she was seduced by her boss, and his wife, a cop, found out--Zoe Norris hopes for a gig as a travel book editor in New York. She finds what seems to be the ideal job, but business owner Phillip Rand proves extremely reluctant to hire her despite her excellent credentials. Why? Well--she's human. Phil, it turns out, is a vampire, and among the other employees are an incubus, a water sprite, a death goddess and several zombies who keep a supply of brains in the office refrigerator--they're a little slow but OK unless they get hungry. Zoe can't help but wonder what other "coterie" are out there. Werewolves? Ghosts? "Banshees? Now everything about Britney Spears made sense." Not to mention Granny Good Mae, a homeless bag lady who for some reason terrifies the coterie. Then Phil hires a construct (a Frankenstein's monster) as head of CR (that's Coterie Resources, Zoe being the sole human). What Zoe finds horrible and suspicious is that the new guy wears the head of an old college boyfriend. As things rapidly get out of hand, Zoe will learn just how hard it is to resist a hungry incubus and the pivotal role played by the employees of the city's Public Works department--you will never look at those figures in reflective vests and hard hats emerging from mysterious dark apertures in the same way again. The hip, knowing and sometimes hysterically funny narrative, interspersed with excerpts from the guide of the title, lurches along in splendid fashion. Combine wit, style and acute observation: The result is irresistible.

        COPYRIGHT(2013) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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      • source: Library Journal
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        Starred review from April 15, 2013

        This entertaining urban fantasy is populated with fantastical beings who narrow the gap between the human and supernatural worlds. It seems that what supernatural creatures really want is a tourists' guide to the Big Apple--one written for the out-of-town monster, or coterie, as they prefer to be called. And that's what Underworld Publishing has hired Zoe Norris, a native (and human) New Yorker, to do. Zoe has returned to the city after a nasty experience with her former publisher/boyfriend and is desperate for a job, even if it means her new boss and coworkers are vampires, zombies, and an irresistible incubus. Morgen, a charming and cheerful water sprite, leads Zoe on a boisterous tour of coterie hot spots. VERDICT Lafferty, a 2012 nominee for the John W. Campbell Award for best new writer, introduces a spirited, indomitable heroine who is bound to be a favorite of urban fantasy devotees.--Deb West, Gannon Univ. Lib., Erie, PA

        Copyright 2013 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

      • premium: True
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        Starred review from May 15, 2013
        Most new hires try to negotiate a higher salary. When Zoe takes a job editing a new travel-book series for Underground Publications, she needs to decide whether to get paid in hell notes, blood tokens, occult favors, or regular dollars. In Lafferty's entirely believable world, New York City is secretly inhabited by vampires, zombies, fay folk, and assorted monsters. Public Works not only takes care of streets and sanitation, they are also responsible for keeping the balance between humans and coterie the preferred term for nonhumans. Zoe's pretty tough, and she thinks she can handle her assignment of creating a coterie guidebook to the city. But she's ill-prepared for what awaits her in the underworld and soon finds herself succumbing to the erotic advances of an incubus coworker, tracking down raging zombies, and ultimately getting involved in an epic battle for the (literal) soul of the city. This is a funny, thoughtfully conceived, and thoroughly entertaining romp that will be a sure bet for urban-fantasy readersand might even surprise people who don't think they'd enjoy a paranormal novel.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2013, American Library Association.)

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Because of the disaster that was her last job, Zoe is searching for a fresh start as a travel book editor in the tourist-centric New York City. After stumbling across a seemingly perfect position though, Zoe is blocked at every turn because of the one thing she can't take off her resume — human.
Not to be put off by anything — especially not her blood drinking boss or death goddess coworker — Zoe delves deep into the monster world. But her job turns deadly when the careful balance between human and monsters starts to crumble — with Zoe right in the middle.
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