Emma Bull, Bone Dance

In a post-apocalyptic city, Sparrow scrapes a living fixing the surviving electronics and collecting and selling old media, but is plagued by mysterious blackouts. A visit to a card-reader provides more questions than answers, but soon life is spiralling out of control and there are important lessons to be learned as well as villains to defeat. (I think that's about as long as I can keep that up!) The book is described as/subtitled "A fantasy for technophiles," which seems a reasonable way to describe a story with a science-fiction-flavored setting and voodoo gods. The setting and atmosphere are very well done, the characters quirky and distinct; the plot seems to sag a bit in the middle after a brisk start, but picks up again at the end.

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