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Title	:	Thicker Than Water (Felix Castor #4)
Author	:	Mike Carey
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 480 pages
Published	:	March 1st 2009 by Orbit
Categories	:	Fantasy. Urban Fantasy. Horror. Fiction. Mystery. Paranormal

Thicker Than Water (Felix Castor #4) Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 480 pages

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Felix Castor is a freelance exorcist, so dealing with the dead is his stock in trade. Between his private clients and some consulting for the Met, he thinks he's seen it all. But a late-night call out to a South London housing estate proves that he still has a few surprises left. After all, it's not every day you see your own name painted in blood at a a crime scene.

But that's only the beginning. The estate is in the grip of an epidemic of violence, and it doesn't take Castor's sixth sense to realise that something very wrong is happening. The Anathemata, excommunicated militant arm of the Catholic Church, is on the case, too, but it's brutal solution may only make things worse. And Castor's brother, Matthew, is pursuing a secret agenda of his own.

Blood may be thicker than water, but Castor suspects he's dealing with something thicker than blood. And he needs to find it before the Anathemata. Or there'll be hell to pay...




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Original Title:	Thicker Than Water (Felix Castor, #4)
ISBN:	1841496561 (ISBN13: 9781841496566)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Felix Castor #4
Characters:	Felix Castor

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This was my favourite of the Felix Castor novels so far. The focus was on a council estate in South London, so you knew that it would be bad. What made this story so good was how very personal it was. This wasn't just some random demon troubling London but tied into Castor's past in Liverpool and managed to capture a lot of the fear of growing up poor, bad relationship choices, broken families, that made the story that much more real and frightening. Of all the books so far this one seemed the

Felix Castor is back and yet again he's in trouble with the law. This time they suspect him of the murder of a former boyhood acquaintance. As is usually the case with Carey's novels, you don't want to put this down and anything else goes out the window as you accompany Felix Castor on his adventure to root out the truth. Ghosts, demons and exorcisms. What more could you want.

***WARNING: a main theme of this book is self-harm (specifically cutting) It isn't fetishised or romanticised, but Carey's writing is quite visceral and my review has quotes, so beware of triggers...***It all starts with a jailbreak.Felix "Fix" Castor, aided by the succubus Juliet, daringly swipe Fix's demon-possessed friend out from under the noses of the sadistic doctor who wants to take him apart to study him. Fix is just beginning to catch his breath when the police arrive on his doorstep.

Wow did this series just hit a high point, and I didnt guess for a second the outcome of this story which really hits you like a punch in the ribs. Again Felix castor is on the case, as usual on the wrong side of the law, and just about everyone else he knows for that matter, we get a much deeper insight into Fix's past and upbringing, and some development on his brother too, all in all a very welcome book for the series and definately the high point of it.

I have really mixed feelings about this one. On the one hand it really expands the world and has some of creepiest and most effective moments of horror that the franchise has had. At its heart this is a haunted house story and those moments work well. It's also a story about going home again which is also effective, but I'm not sure the two hung together as well as they could have. I don't want to fall into the trap of saying what the book should have been, but I wish Felix had been trapped in



Excellent continuation to the series. What an ending! I picked up the next book as soon as I finished this one. I wish there were more than five books. I'll have to read the next one very slowly.