2009 Reading #60: Necromancer Nine

Books 1-10.
Books 11-20.
Books 21-30.
Books 31-40.
Books 41-50.
51. Devil In a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley.
52. A Red Death by Walter Mosley.
53. White Butterfly by Walter Mosley.
54. Flora's Dare: How a Girl of Spirit Gambles All to Expand Her Vocabulary, Confront a Bouncing Boy Terror, and Try to Save Califa From a Shaky Doom by Ysabeau Wilce.
55. The Riddle-Master of Hed by Patricia McKillip.
56. James J. Hill and the Opening of the Northwest by Albro Martin.
57. King's Blood Four (Book One of The True Game) by Sheri S. Tepper.
58. Subterranean Twin Cities by Greg Brick.
59. Hey, Hmong Girl, Whassup? The Journal of Choua Vang by Leah Rempel.

60. Necromancer Nine (Book Two of The True Game) by Sheri S. Tepper. These books are so good, people. There are apparently nine of them (three related-but-separate trilogies), and I'm seriously considering picking up the rest of the books as soon as I finish this first trilogy. Tepper's prose is exquisite, and there is some crazy-ass shit in here: a valley of Shifters that reads like a Dali painting of the X-Men's encounters with Legion or Jamie Braddock, Gormenghast-in-a-spaceship, gibbering monsters with surprise feminism . . . I am kind of amazed that I had not heard of this stuff before Kelly Link pressed it upon me. SERIOUSLY IT'S REALLY GOOD READ IT.