Lyndsay Faye
Hardcover | Pages: 408 pages Rating: 3.88 | 12885 Users | 1956 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Gods of Gotham |
| ISBN: | 0399158375 (ISBN13: 9780399158377) |
| Edition Language: | English URL https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/310329/the-gods-of-gotham-by-lyndsay-faye/9780425261255/ |
| Series: | Timothy Wilde #1 |
| Characters: | Timothy Wilde, Valentine Wilde, Mercy Underhill, Bird Daly, Silkie Marsh, Dr Peter Palsgrave, Mrs Boehm, Reverend Underhill |
| Setting: | New York City, New York,1845(United States) Manhattan, New York City, New York,1845(United States) Five Points, New York City, New York(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Edgar Award Nominee for Best Novel (2013), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction (2012) |
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1845. New York City forms its first police force. The great potato famine hits Ireland. These two seemingly disparate events will change New York City. Forever.Timothy Wilde tends bar near the Exchange, fantasizing about the day he has enough money to win the girl of his dreams. But when his dreams literally incinerate in a fire devastating downtown Manhattan, he finds himself disfigured, unemployed, and homeless. His older brother obtains Timothy a job in the newly minted NYPD, but he is highly skeptical of this new "police force." And he is less than thrilled that his new beat is the notoriously down-and-out Sixth Ward - at the border of Five Points, the world's most notorious slum.
One night while making his rounds, Wilde literally runs into a little slip of a girl - a girl not more than ten years old - dashing through the dark in her nightshirt... covered head to toe in blood.
Timothy knows he should take the girl to the House of Refuge, yet he can't bring himself to abandon her. Instead, he takes her home, where she spins wild stories, claiming that dozens of bodies are buried in the forest north of 23rd Street. Timothy isn't sure whether to believe her or not, but, as the truth unfolds, the reluctant copper star finds himself engaged in a battle for justice that nearly costs him his brother, his romantic obsession, and his own life.
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| Title | : | The Gods of Gotham (Timothy Wilde #1) |
| Author | : | Lyndsay Faye |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 408 pages |
| Published | : | March 15th 2012 by Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Mystery. Fiction. Crime. Historical Mystery |
Rating Appertaining To Books The Gods of Gotham (Timothy Wilde #1)
Ratings: 3.88 From 12885 Users | 1956 ReviewsNotice Appertaining To Books The Gods of Gotham (Timothy Wilde #1)
A vortex of a book! The twists and turns and reveals and dark secrets - I'm spinning! Without reservation, I recommend this book as the best mystery I've read this year! Terrific, well-done, exciting read, despite the horror, death and destruction without a lot of resolution...because it's, you know, New York.Timothy Wilde, I love you. I want to be your woman. Poor man. I'm a sucker for a guy who is so tough, he's willing to fight 50 men by himself, even though he knows he's going to die, inI both read and listened to the audio book. I enjoyed this book a lot. It kept me. Once I got into the storey, I could not put it down. I am looking forward to reading Lindsay Faye's next book. I already have it from the library. I loved the way she brought the old New York back to life. She really brought home the way the Irish were treated during the potato famine. The Irish part of my family came to New York State during that period. I don't know if they ever lived in New York City. They did
He wasn't in front of me any longer. He was a thousand and a thousand and a thousand miles away. It was a ransomed look. One he'd never before showed me. And since he'd never shown me, I'd never known it was there. Rep: mc with burn scars, bi side characterI read this book first a year ago, on someone's recommendation, and the Wilde brothers killed me then. Rereading it now, it's even worse. Because you know everything that's going to happen to them, in this book and in later books, and they're
This one was...rough. Like, AMAZING. But also rough. This one deals with a LOT of difficult topics. There's a hell of a lot of anti-Irish sentiment, because it's set in New York in the 1840s, right at the time when there was a huge influx of Irish immigrants due to the Famine. (ETA: Reading it this week with the Cheeto-in-Chief's bullshit Muslim ban was actually kind of a horrifying reminder that there's ALWAYS been an immigrant population that's discriminated against and that the existing
Unfortunately, things haven't changed much since 1845 except maybe back then it was easier to get drugs like Morphine, hookers were cheap, Catholics disliked Irish and other protestants perhaps a little more than these days. It was also more normal to drink a lot during the day, the political leaders got away with all kinds of bad dealings and politics (wait, maybe that one hasn't changed) and little orphan kids were treated like slaves sometimes in the sex industry...I think I just heard the
The Gods of Gotham could hardly have opened in a more impressive way. Starting off at breakneck speed, the reader is shot back in time to New York, 1845, as a raging fire destroys a large portion of the city. Debris flies through the air, the stench of burning skin lingers in the air and thousands of people are left homeless by the destruction. Amongst those whose life is destroyed in Timothy Wilde. Formerly a barkeeper at a local oyster bar, he discovers his workplace is eaten by the flames, as
4 stars!This book has been lying on my TBR for quite a while; I don't know why it took me such a long time to finally pick it book, as the blurb has been very appealing. I'm a huge fan of historical crime and thriller stories and I was thus very excited about this book. When I finally managed to pick it up, I wasn't decieved. Lyndsay Faye is a great writer. With the perfect use of an old language and an amazing historical knowledge, she managed to suck me right into the city of New York in 1845.
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