Jenny (Reading Envy)'s Reviews > The Book of Lamps and Banners

This is the fourth Cass Neary novel by Liz Hand, and it pulls in some of the characters and situations from the first three, answering some questions left open from before. It also circles a priceless book possibly made for Alexander the Great by Aristotle, and rescued from the Library of Alexandria. Somehow the author squeezed in our pandemic situation and white supremacists too.

Cass, as always, is exhibiting self-destructive behavior. And she's left her camera behind.... That's one thing I love about the Cass Neary novels is the details about photography, art, both in the daily routine of Cass's life but as a metaphor.

This came out September 29 and I had a copy from the publisher through Edelweiss. I had read the previous three, so this didn't come out of nowhere for me.