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    Midnight Taxi Tango

    By Daniel José Older

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    The New York Times bestselling author of Half-Resurrection Blues returns in a new Bone Street Rumba Novel—a knife-edge, noir-shaded urban fantasy of crime after death.

    The streets of New York are hungry tonight...
     
    Carlos Delacruz straddles the line between the living and the not-so alive. As an
    agent for the Council of the Dead, he eliminates New York’s ghostlier problems. This time it’s a string of gruesome paranormal accidents in Brooklyn’s Von King Park that has already taken the lives of several locals—and is bound to take more.
     
    The incidents in the park have put Kia on edge. When she first met Carlos, he was the weird guy who came to Baba Eddie's botánica, where she worked. But the closer they’ve gotten, the more she’s seeing the world from Carlos’s point of view. In fact, she’s starting to see ghosts. And the situation is far more sinister than that—because whatever is bringing out the dead, it’s only just getting started.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Group
    Release dateJan 5, 2016
    ISBN9780698166813
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    Daniel José Older

    Daniel José Older is a New York Times bestselling author, editor, and composer. Shadowshaper, his first published young adult novel, received the International Latino Book Award and was also recognized as a New York Times Notable Book and NPR's Best Book of the Year. A bass player for the soul-jazz band Ghost Star, he also chronicles his thoughts on writing and his decade-long career as a New York City paramedic at ghoststar.net. He currently resides in Brooklyn.

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    • 5/5
      Midnight Taxi TangoAuthor: Daniel Jose OlderPublisher: New American Library via Penguin Random House LLCDate: 2016Pgs: 322Dewey: PBK - F OLDDisposition: Irving Public Library, South Campus, Irving, TX_________________________________________________REVIEW MAY CONTAIN SPOILERSSummary:The streets of New York are hungry tonight...Carlos Delacruz straddles the line between the living and the not-so alive. As an agent for the Council of the Dead, he eliminates New York’s ghostlier problems. This time it’s a string of gruesome paranormal accidents in Brooklyn’s Von King Park that has already taken the lives of several locals—and is bound to take more. The incidents in the park have put Kia on edge. When she first met Carlos, he was the weird guy who came to Baba Eddie's botánica, where she worked. But the closer they’ve gotten, the more she’s seeing the world from Carlos’s point of view. In fact, she’s starting to see ghosts. And the situation is far more sinister than that—because whatever is bringing out the dead, it’s only just getting started._________________________________________________Genre:Amazon genre listWhy this book:The ghosts are rising. Who you gonna call?_________________________________________________Favorite Character:Delacruz, Riley, Bell, Kia, Reza, and Charo...good characters.Reza, Charo, and the Medianoche Car Service are great heavies, bad guys who do good by their own code. Great anti-heroes. Though in a world where dead guys come back to life as roach zombies, they’re just good guys.Character I Most Identified With:You feel these characters.The Feel:There is a great feel in this novel.Favorite Scene / Quote:The pink roach covered zombie drones being drawn in by Jeremy with Giovanni going all karate and judo on them in the garden. With poor Kia haunted by Giovanni after his disappearance a few weeks later. Though neither boy’s body is ever found.Well done scenes every time the roach guys show up. Are they crawling on me? I think something is crawling on me. Yuck.“Oh, this muthafucka.” ...that’s a whole chapter. And it is awesome. It’s perfect.Pacing:Love the way that the character focus narrative shifts perspective chapter to chapter.Very well paced.Plot Holes/Out of Character:If Rigo turns out to be a lesser bad, it is being telegraphed way too hard.Hmm Moments:When I first read the summary, I thought Ghostbusters. And then, in the opening, Carlos is sitting in an ambulance with his EMT friends who called him in on a park where the violent death rate is off the charts. Not sure if the ambulance is an intentional Gb touchstone or incidental, I like to think it’s intentional.WTF Moments:The roach man zombie swarm in the basement...damn, I need to brush my arms off and go stare in the mirror and make sure none are crawling on me. Bvfvfvfaaahhhh! That is a creepy feeling.Meh / PFFT Moments:All Kia’s scenes starting with her cussing at whoever is in the scene or on her mind, especially Carlos.Wisdom:I didn’t appreciate Carlos disintegrating on the emotion tsunami rollercoaster about mid book. But, Kia and Reza hit him with the wisdom of the why. And it made sense. Very well done._________________________________________________Last Page Sound:That. That right there is how you end a book that is part of a series. Well done.Author Assessment:I will read more stuff by Daniel Jose Older.Editorial Assessment:Overused phrase in this review, but well done.Knee Jerk Reaction:instant classic_________________________________________________
    • 4/5
      Right now you need to imagine me writing Kia's name over and over in sparkly glitter pen because she is just that wonderful.

      While I didn't enjoy this book quite as much as I did the first in this series--but, hey, this is a 4 star book so I obviously enjoyed it very much--I really love the path it put Carlos and his friends on.

      As always, Older is a poet. I could devour his words all day long. When he's writing Carlos, his words make my heart ache and soar simultaneously. Just beautiful.