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Luda
Luda: A Novel | Grant Morrison
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A drag queen initiates her protge into the magical arts in this phantasmagoric epic, the first novel from the legendary comics writer and New York Times bestselling author. Grant Morrison is a modern mythmaker.Alex Segura, bestselling author of Secret Identity Luci LaBang is a star: For decades this flamboyant drag artist has cast a spell over screen and stage. Now shes the leading lady in a smash hit musical. But as time takes its toll, Luci fears her star is beginning to dim. When Lucis co-star meets with a mysterious accident, a new ingenue shimmers onto the scene: Luda, whose fantastical beauty and sinister charm infatuate Luci immediately . . . and who bears a striking resemblance to Luci herself at a much younger age. Luda begs Luci to share the secrets of her stardom and to reveal the hidden tricks of her trade. For Luci LaBang is a mistress of the Glamour, a mysterious discipline that draws on sex, drugs, and the occult for its trancelike, transformative effects. But as Luci tutors her young protge, their fellow actors and crew members begin meeting with untimely ends. Now Luci wonders if Luda has mastered the Glamour all too well . . . and exploited it to achieve her dark ambitions. What follows is an intoxicating descent into the demimonde of Gasglow, a fantastical city of dreams, and into the nightmarish heart of Luda herself: a femme fatale, a phenomenon, a monster, and, perhaps, the brightest star of them all.
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Yuki_Onna
Luda: A Novel | Grant Morrison
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BookwormAHN Nice 🐈‍⬛ 12mo
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ReadingOver50
Luda: A Novel | Grant Morrison
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Bailedbailed

I got about half way through. Then I bailed. I wanted to love this. Drag queens and a murder mystery sounds great. But the writing style was not for me. It is written in the first person and is very disjointed, jumping from one idea to the next. I was very disappointed.

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Coueriamb
Luda: A Novel | Grant Morrison
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Mehso-so

Another 2023 holdover! And just as… disappointing.

I wanted to like this book so much more than I did. I DID like this book. The plot is fun! The story is trippy! All the characters are great! It… just needs to be like 150 pages shorter. If I didn‘t have it on Libby I‘d have never gotten through it.

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GerardtheBookworm
Luda: A Novel | Grant Morrison
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Bailedbailed

One hot mess of a novel. Comic book writer Grant Morrison tries to blend horror and fantasy in a story of a drag queen named Luci Labang and her protégé Luda who are working together in a pantomime stage show. With people dying and magic happening, Morrison's attempts to be literary and metaphorical are left in an overwritten, confusing hard to read piece of fiction. Skip this.