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    Mulengro: A Romany Tale
    Mulengro: A Romany Tale
    Mulengro: A Romany Tale
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    Mulengro: A Romany Tale

    By Charles de Lint

    3.5/5

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    A tale of magic and murder

    The increasingly bizarre murders have baffled the police—but each death is somehow connected with the city's elusive Gypsy community. The police are searching for a human killer, but the Romany know better. They know the name of the darkness that hunts them down, one by one: Mulengro.



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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateApr 1, 2007
    ISBN9781429911290
    Mulengro: A Romany Tale
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    Charles de Lint

    Charles de Lint and his wife, the artist MaryAnn Harris, live in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. His evocative novels, including Moonheart, Forests of the Heart, and The Onion Girl, have earned him a devoted following and critical acclaim as a master of contemporary magical fiction in the manner of storytellers like John Crowley, Jonathan Carroll, Alice Hoffman, Ray Bradbury, and Isabel Allende.

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    • 4/5
      3.5 stars. Gypsies are being murdered in Ottawa and both the police and the gypsy community are working separately to stop the murders from continuing.

      de Lint originally published this book under a pseudonym, Samuel M. Key, so readers would know that it's a darker tale than most of his fantasy works. I quite liked it, and would enjoy reading more of "Key's" books. de Lint did a lot of research on the modern day (well, it was written in the 80s) gypsy culture for the book as well, so there's some extra information there. I certainly didn't know anything about them, but I'd be interested in reading more of that, too.

      The book follows many different characters throughout the book, but it was never difficult, nor did it take long to figure out, which character he switched to. I kind of liked that you got to see perspectives of things that were happening at the same time from different characters. For some of the characters, it does take a bit of time to see how they are connected, though. Not a bad thing, I just wanted to point that out.
    • 5/5
      This man writes the best fantasy books ever!!
    • 5/5
      Decided to reread this yesterday and yeah it is still as good as it was when I first read it back in the 80s. Okay some things are a little dated but then that is to be expected. This book was first published back in 1985 making it almost 30 years old. The characters are still strong and intriguing and it is interesting to look back at this and see where Charles de Lint went with his tales. He has always had a touch of the otherworldly. Sometimes it is dark like in this tale. Of all the characters in the book I think I like Boboko and Dr Rainbow best. While secondary characters they stayed true to themselves and both had important parts to play. Simple truths told out of extraordinary characters. It really isn't a wonder why I want to write as well as this author.
    • 3/5

      Mulengro is seeking vengeance and purification of the Gypsies (Romany) who have gone astray in modern culture; will the Gypsies be able to stand up to this dark force.


      I enjoyed the thought that everything is possible, and our eyes can't perceive everything mentality. The book's flow is one that is not easily put down. This book is a good examination of what is real and what is more real... Jeff can't believe his eyes. Modern science excuses this as him having a concussion. But the gypsies see another world... and their eyes have not been so conditioned as the non gypsies.


      De Lint’s master stroke in Mulengro is, 360 degree POV, and shifting perspectives. He shows character motivation for all of his characters, none of the characters are flat-cut out props.


      One even knows the motivation of Mulengro the evil one, and can't but help thinking, “hmmm maybe he is right to do what he is doing. Haven’t the gypsies gone astray in modern life, shouldn’t he want to purify the gypsies from gypsies who have gone astray." What does it mean to purify a race to make a stronger group?


      Mulengro is addictive fiction, exploring the interplay between the life of the gypsy and the life of the modern man.

    • 4/5
      According to his forward, this is one of his "darker" (meaning more graphically violent and bloody) stories, originally published under the pseudonym Samuel M. Key to distinguish it from his "ordinary" work. Now, I can understand wanting to use a pseudonym if you were, say, a children's book writer wanting to publish your erotic spanking stories, but DeLint's regular work doesn't flinch from the dark side of the human (or inhuman) nature. So maybe this was a little more graphic; was it necessary to separate it by another name, even if you acknowledged it as yours? (He claims he used the psudonym to alert readers that it would be a darker story) What do my writer friends think--would you claim all work as your own? What if you were established in a certain genre, and then wrote something different?
    • 4/5
      My first book about the Rom (their own name for what people call gypsies). There are a lot of mystical aspects to this novel and frankly one very stupid thing as well. A talking cat. Okay...I know it's part of the story & that with any horror story the reader is supposed to suspend belief. But a talking cat? I was reminded of that cat Salem on the show Sabrina that my daughter watched when she was much younger. I guess I'm just not a talking cat person. If you overlook the talking cat then what you have here is a mix of two genres: police procedural and horror. Synopsis:The story takes place near Ottawa, in the modern day. As the story opens, Janfri (one of the main characters in the novel), who is Rom by birth, has lost his house due to arson. As he stands and watches it burn, he notices a little sign cut into the wood which declares him to be unclean...meaning that he does not live as a pure Rom and thus should be shunned by the others. He searches his soul and cannot find any reason to believe that someone (another Rom, obviously) should mark him so. He does engage in music for a living, but has never played up his gypsy roots to make the music sell; he leaves him open to other Rom visitors & was married into another Rom family before his wife died. But this is not the worst: a member of his kumpania -- tribe-- has been violently murdered. The police want to find the murderer and the Rom sign gives them a clue that they are looking for Rom in their search for the killer. Janfri wants to find out who finds him unclean -- and going to the headman discovers that the one who finds him such is no mere mortal, but one who obviously believes that Janfri must be purged. As the bodies begin to stack up and witnesses begin to be killed, Janfri has to turn to more mystical means to find the killer. The killer is Mulengro...the controller of ghosts or "mule," who uses these spirits to kill the others. Two police inspectors become suspicious of Janfri, because he never did anything about the burning of his house, and stay on his trail as he is trying to find and destroy Mulengro.I read a review that called this book "edge-of-your seat suspense" but I don't think that really fits. It's more like a good ghost story that would be fun to read on a stormy night with a fire burning in your fireplace. I recommend it to horror readers, for sure ... but watch out for the talking cat.
    • 5/5
      Mulengro is unusual for an urban fantasy book because Romany people (aka gypsies) are at the center of the story. De Lint, as usual, does a masterful job of making Romany magic work in a modern world and in the context of a city setting. One gets a sense of the gritty and some what grim life of modern Rom, and why they continue to be resistant to a "proper" modern settled life. Mulengro can be dark but is ultimately hopeful.
    • 3/5
      This isn't my favorite of Charles de Lint's novels, but it's an exciting thriller and the elements of Romany culture and folklore keep it from being just a run-of-the-mill dark fantasy.

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