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Not Flesh Nor Feathers

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Cherie Priest has hit this one solidly over the fence. The pacing is impeccable and intense, keeping you sucked solidly into Eden Moore's world. While it isn't absolutely necessary to have read Four and Twenty Blackbirds and Wings to the Kingdom to get into Not Flesh Nor Feathers, it will certainly make some passing references easier to understand.

As with the other two Eden Moore books, NFNF opens with a ghost. Lest readers of the other two books think they know where things are going, however, the story rapidly builds and takes a hard left turn into rising waters and the problems (not all of them mundane) that come with the river's encroachment into town. The novel is so realistically done that the supernatural elements slot naturally and easily into place, making suspension of disbelief and complete immersion in the story easy.

Definitely Priest's best book yet, and I'm looking forward to future books as I suspect she's going nowhere but up from here.

I was so sad to see the Eden Moore trilogy come to a close, but Not Flesh Nor Feathers was a wonderful way to end. The book had just the right amount of creepy and just the right amount of adventure. It was a delight to get lost in the pages and follow Eden on her adventure. I have thrust this series on all of my book loving friends. If you like tales of things that go bump in the night, pick up a Cherie Priest book. You will not be disappointed.

The other reviewers tell the basic outline of the book. I love Cherie Priest's Eden Moore novels, each one gets better and better. Personally, I find them fascinating, and not at all creepy: Stephen King is the master at that.

Prepare to be up all night! Three times in a row, Priest has written a book I couldn't put down. Once again she has woven a fantastic storyline for our heroine. The story flows beautifully, is easy to read but not 'dumbed down', is realistic(as realistic as river zombies can be, at least!), and keeps you guessing from page to page.

I highly recommend this, as well as her other 4 novels!

Cherie Priest delivers another solid story in this latest outing of her character Eden Moore. This time, it's zombies that she battles during a flood of historic proportions. There's an uncommunicative ghost, a flirty newsman, a half-brother who's on the lam but wants to meet her family, and rising waters that bring shambling death to Chattanooga to deal with, and Eden does it with style. If you enjoyed her first two outings, you'll definitely want to read this one.

Easily my favorite of the Eden Moore trilogy, I found this one to be the scariest of the three, but also much more "fun" and all-around entertaining.

I picked this up in the library, because it looked captivating. And it was! But... I had to go grab the first two books and read them before this made ANY sense. You cannot read this alone. As others have gone into the plot, I will do more of a description of the series, from a newcomer's perspective.

I did go back and grab the first two. Finding Eden's past and all about her Ghost Whisperer abilities was, in a way, more captivating than this third book. This book had more of a sense of physical danger than the other two, but the other two were spookier. Especially the second.

The ambiance created by the author is lush and vivid. I have never been to Tennesee, and will probably never go. But I feel the life of the city from the author's eyes - and the bittersweet taste of a disappointed 20-something is reminiscent of my own days in my own city at that age. Her love affair with Greyfriars, an independent coffee house, and her friendship with sk8ter boyz who won't grow up are examples of this mindset. The entire series does skew young, but we oldsters can read it.

The author is very verbose, and in a different hand, these books would be much shorter. For the amount of wordage, there is actually surprisingly little covered. But the atmosphere is worth it.

I do like the way this book closes out - we are no longer in the same rut that we have been in the first 3 books. There are changes in the characters which have been building but have now exploded. I cannot tell anymore without giving away key pieces of the plot.

I would recommend the first in this series first, and if you like it, continue on, for they are all of the same flavor.

The above title line is a reference to the central event and chief threats in this well-spun tale of terror, horror and historical drama. Like other river towns, from Johnstown, PA to New Orleans, Chattanooga, TN at the beginning of Cherie Priest's Nor Flesh Nor Feathers is threatened by rising water...and other, more viscerally terrifying things.

The resourceful, articulate and courageous heroine of the previous two volumes in this trilogy, Eden Moore, faces questions and crises she needs all of her powers to face, and answer. The transient and marginal characters who lend Chattanooga a funky underclass are disappearing. Drawn into searching for causes, Eden over about three days goes through events that stretch her to the utmost of her physical and psychic limits.

There are a few references to the devastation of New Orleans following Katrina, but Chattanooga has its own history of floods, including one in the 1800s which allowed a small steamboat to use a major street as an impromptu canal. What happens in Priest's book is not far-fetched, at least as pertains to flooding, and the events are convincingly described.

The supernatural element, of course, is another thing, and is done quite well, as in the earlier two books in the Eden Moore saga. "Genre fiction," in which category this novel is included, like all other types of fiction must first be a good story, well-told and written. As with the previous two books, Four and Twenty Blackbirds, and Wings to the Kingdom, Cherie Priest has filled that requirement. A very rewarding read.

(Bk 3/Eden Moore series) Modern southern gothic. Set in Chattanooga, we meet up with Eden Moore again. She still sees & hears ghosts, which is a good thing because there are things in the river, things that are killing people and as it rains endlessly, the river starts to flood and Eden finds out the zombies in the water are empty - except for the angriest little girl (cue creepy music). So Eden has to turn to a ghost to find out why the things are coming and what they want...Or try to. Interesting B characters or sub-A, if you will, help lend the story depth and once again, Priest's atmopshere building talents are great.

Anyway, I find it hard to think this will be the last Eden Moore, as there are new story possibilites and open ties everywhere - which I don't want to list as it will be a spoiler for this story but I really hope there are more to come someday.

Eden Moore can see and speak with the dead, which is a good thing, because Chattanooga is not only being flooded, but is also under attack by zombies. But the zombies have nothing to tell her, so she must seek information from ghosts, both a well known, fancy-historic-hotel residing ghost and the new ghosts of skater kids and homeless people who the zombies have killed. At the same time, Eden is seeking information about the curse her many greats-grandfather put on her and is about to have a visit by the half-brother who tried to kill her not long ago. Confused yet? Don't be- it actually all makes perfect sense.

I didn't discover until I finished this book that it's the third in a trilogy, but not only does it stand alone nicely, it doesn't have any of those long "and this is what happened before" passages that can slow down other series books. I'm happy that there are two other books with this character I can look for; I'm unhappy that it's a trilogy and not an open ended series. Cherie Priest has given Southern gothic a modern twist, putting it in a big city and giving it a heroine who is anything but languid.

Tightly plotted with pretty much non-stop action, I stayed up until the wee hours to finish this book. I was actually grateful to be ill, so that I could read the book without interruption! One of the best horror novels I've read in quite some time.