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The Music of Razors by Cameron Rogers
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The Music of Razors (edition 2007)

by Cameron Rogers

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"Dark, disturbing, and filled with moments of real charm and magic, The Music of Razors is the best first novel I've seen this year."--Locus In nineteenth-century Boston, a young doctor on the run from the law falls in with a British confidence artist. Together--and with dire consequences--they bring back to the light something meant to be forgotten. A world away in London, an absent father, haunted by the voice of a banished angel, presents his daughter with an impossible friend--a clockwork ballerina. For two centuries, a bullet-removal specialist has wielded instruments of angel bone in service to a forgotten power . . . and now he vows to find someone else to shoulder the burden, someone with a conscience of their own, a strong mind, and a broken will. For a hundred years he has searched for the perfect contender, and now he has found two: a brother and a sister. Walter and Hope. Either will do. Last night something stepped from little Walter's closet and he never woke up. Now he travels the dark road between worlds, no longer entirely boy nor wholly beast, but with one goal in mind: to prevent his sister from suffering the same fate as he. Only the creature he has become can save Hope. But is it too late to save himself? Praise for The Music of Razors "A nightmarishly imaginative debut from a writer of real assurance and vision . . . Cameron Rogers is going to go places."--Neil Gaiman "An exceedingly fine novel . . . You feel this book is true and the characters are real. The Music of Razors tells a beautiful and deeply affecting story, full of wonder, strangeness, pain, and love."--K. J. Bishop, author of The Etched City "This was an impressive first novel. In The Music of Razors, Cameron Rogers weaves a thought-provoking and compelling dark fantasy from the mythology of religion."--Jeff Ford, author of The Girl in the Glass "Slippery and quick with a bite that won't let go long after you turn the final page."--Sean Williams, author of The Crooked Letter "Jam-packed with enough extraordinary ideas to fill a dozen novels. Never was fantasy darker or more disturbing. The novelistic equivalent of Twin Peaks."--Richard Harland, author of Ferren and the Angel "This is a great book. Alice meets Freddy Krueger in Wonderland!"--Paul Collins, author of Cyberskin… (more)
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Title:The Music of Razors
Authors:Cameron Rogers
Info:Del Rey (2007), Edition: Advance Uncorrected Proofs, Paperback, 336 pages
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I read the Australian edition and freaking loved it. The characters are well-drawn, the story is engrossing, sometimes frightening, sometimes heartbreaking. Just a wonderful read. The American edition has some more background, and I'm looking forward to finding out what was added. ( )
  kalinichta | Jun 30, 2017 |
Been reading this with Kelmy (my 13-year-old). It's pretty dark so far and so he loves it. About halfway in I could take it or leave it.

Well those are hours of my life I'll never get back. A little too surreal for me. I thought it might end up being something like Vellum: The Book of All Hours but in the end it just really didn't go anywhere. It seemed to be about a very big struggle between angels and god and humans, but then it focused on a really small scale where nothing was resolved at the end. As we got about 30 pages from the end I expected some really "big" events to happen and they did but they happened to really "small" people (even though they were the main characters) so it really didn't seem finished. ( )
  ragwaine | Jun 1, 2012 |
Meh. ( )
  phoebesmum | Aug 7, 2011 |
I really enjoyed this book. It was such a refreshing read after some books that left me wanting more. This is definitely a book that has left me thinking of it even after I was finished. My only complaint with it is that the ending is left open and a bit all over the place as one reviewer already noted. ( )
  Cecilia_Hardy | Dec 23, 2010 |
Quite entertaining overall, although I thought the ending was a bit scattered. It certainly filled up a several hour airplane ride. ( )
  drneutron | Jun 18, 2007 |
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"Dark, disturbing, and filled with moments of real charm and magic, The Music of Razors is the best first novel I've seen this year."--Locus In nineteenth-century Boston, a young doctor on the run from the law falls in with a British confidence artist. Together--and with dire consequences--they bring back to the light something meant to be forgotten. A world away in London, an absent father, haunted by the voice of a banished angel, presents his daughter with an impossible friend--a clockwork ballerina. For two centuries, a bullet-removal specialist has wielded instruments of angel bone in service to a forgotten power . . . and now he vows to find someone else to shoulder the burden, someone with a conscience of their own, a strong mind, and a broken will. For a hundred years he has searched for the perfect contender, and now he has found two: a brother and a sister. Walter and Hope. Either will do. Last night something stepped from little Walter's closet and he never woke up. Now he travels the dark road between worlds, no longer entirely boy nor wholly beast, but with one goal in mind: to prevent his sister from suffering the same fate as he. Only the creature he has become can save Hope. But is it too late to save himself? Praise for The Music of Razors "A nightmarishly imaginative debut from a writer of real assurance and vision . . . Cameron Rogers is going to go places."--Neil Gaiman "An exceedingly fine novel . . . You feel this book is true and the characters are real. The Music of Razors tells a beautiful and deeply affecting story, full of wonder, strangeness, pain, and love."--K. J. Bishop, author of The Etched City "This was an impressive first novel. In The Music of Razors, Cameron Rogers weaves a thought-provoking and compelling dark fantasy from the mythology of religion."--Jeff Ford, author of The Girl in the Glass "Slippery and quick with a bite that won't let go long after you turn the final page."--Sean Williams, author of The Crooked Letter "Jam-packed with enough extraordinary ideas to fill a dozen novels. Never was fantasy darker or more disturbing. The novelistic equivalent of Twin Peaks."--Richard Harland, author of Ferren and the Angel "This is a great book. Alice meets Freddy Krueger in Wonderland!"--Paul Collins, author of Cyberskin

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