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The Violent Century by Lavie Tidhar

Superheroes Need Grammar and Punctuation, Too (A Robert CBR6 Review)

February 2, 2014 by Robert 3 Comments

What happens when an amazing story is torn apart by the author in the name of style over substance? Lavie Tidhar self-sabotages his latest novel, The Violent Century, just like that. Essentially, Tidhar is exploring an alternate reality where an unnamed catastrophic event caused hundreds of people around the world to transform into superhumans. Fogg and Oblivion, two British agents mostly used for information gathering rather than combat, control fog and dissipate matter, respectively. They are reporting their exploits in every major interntational war from […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: fantasy, historical fiction, lavie tidhar, science fantasy, superhero, the violent century

Robert's CBR6 Review No:3 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: fantasy, historical fiction, lavie tidhar, science fantasy, superhero, the violent century ·
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