![]() ![]() And Shriek is something different again: it’s a biography of the fringe historian Duncan Shriek, who plays an important role in the city Ambergris’s history.īut here is the brilliant setup of this novel: Duncan Shriek had a habit of disappearing, and when everyone thought he was gone forever his sister Janice Shriek wrote Duncan’s biography. The third novel Finch is a noir thriller about a detective investigating a gray cap murder. His first book was a collection of vignettes, letters and so on that together created the world of Ambergris. Jeff Vandermeer uses his Ambergris series to play around with different styles of storytelling. Both of these books are set in the city Ambergris, which is shared between normal humans and the mysterious gray caps, which are mushroom people who live in caves under the city. But it’s not hard to follow what is going on. And I am reading this series totally backwards, because I started with the third and final entry, Finch, and now moved to Shriek. Shriek: An Afterthought sounds like the final novel in a series, but it is actually the second book in Jeff Vandermeer’s Ambergris series. Why did the mushroom join the party? Because he is a fungi. ![]()
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