One would like to say: What the? Four stars for the sheer audacity. - This book has been marketed as a sequel to Silverlock; it is nothing of the sort. It is shorter, the protagonist is flatter, there is no development. We don't get to meet any characters from fiction (Sumerian and later mythology always excepted) - but we meet authors, in an anachronistically. The second half is better than the first, and I had trouble parsing the literary debates in convoluted faux noir jargon. But then again, I enjoyed that trouble. In many ways, a curious throwback to 1930s to 1950s mythology comedy films and novels like My Friend Harvey, Topper, Night Life of the Gods, but with epic poetry.