So much is quotable here, so much extreme deliciousness. Give this series a shot-you won’t regret it (just be aware that the first book is not, as a whole, quite as delightful as subsequent volumes.the series goes from good to great). Howard’s effervescent wit may be doing society, or at least the good folks who stand next to me while I read on the metro, a disservice). Admittedly, there are a few long stretches here where not much happens (which has happened from time to time in the other Cabal books as well), but the parched-throat-dry humor and crackling dialogue make even those scenes a giggle-a-minute read (I’ll note that when I giggle, I sound something like an asthmatic kitten playing a kazoo, so Mr. If this book didn’t quite reach the magical highs of The Brothers Cabal (which I previously waxed eloquent about), that’s more a reflection of the prior book’s chocolate-covered grasshoppery goodness than any particular deficiency in this book. That said, I can’t think of a series that has made me laugh out loud more over the course of the past few years than this one, and I’m sorry to see it come to a close (if, indeed, it has come to a close). Have I gotten 14 hours of sleep in the past 4 days? Zucchini. If Jonathan Howard’s wit were a grasshopper, it would be delicious and covered with chocolate, but also capable of leaping about hither, thither, and yon in patterns undiscernible to the human brain.ĭoes that make any sense? No. Howard's acclaimed Johannes Cabal series.
The Fall of the House of Cabal is the fifth book in Jonathan L. As the snare closes slowly and subtly around them, it may be that there will be no survivors at all. He is walking into a trap of such arcane complexity that even the one who drew him there has no idea of its true terrors. Yet even though Cabal has risked such peril believing he understands the dangers he faces, he is still underestimating them. So assisted-ably and otherwise-by his vampiric brother, Horst, and by the kindly accompaniment of a criminologist and a devil, he will encounter ruins and diableries, mystery and murder, the depths of the lowest pit and a city of horrors. The task is too dangerous to venture upon alone, so he must seek assistance, comrades for the coming travails. The path is vague, however, and certainly treacherous as it takes him into strange territories that, quite literally, no one has ever seen before. Johannes Cabal, a necromancer of some little infamy, has come into possession of a vital clue that may lead him to his ultimate goal: a cure for death.
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