War For The Oaks
Back in 2008 when the tor.com website first started up they gave away a load of ebooks from the Tor catalogue to people who signed up to be members. This is one of those books.
I read it when I first got my hands on it, on a Palm pilot. Not the greatest reading experience but I did enjoy the book.
Earlier this year I had a sudden craving to re-read War For The Oaks and went scouring through the hard disks of various old PCs and I just couldn’t find it anywhere. A few days ago I was idly tidying up files on my iMac and lo and behold there was the ebook file.
Reading the book on the new ‘retina’ iPad is a world away from the Palm – it’s amazing the speed at which technology has improved.
Anyway back to the book. This is an excellent early example of urban fantasy. It’s particular strength is in the author’s understanding of music and the music industry, which I can tell is pretty much spot on.
It’s hard to get hold of in the UK, but I’d recommend it wholeheartedly to anyone looking for a good fantasy read – especially fans of urban fantasy.