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Despite this mysterious event, the wedding proceeds. Julia's disturbed twin sister
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wrote while Powers "never fails to titillate and elucidate with the dark and the bizarre, and all with such original, eccentric color and style", towards the end of the novel, his "richness becomes a little too heavy and it seems to take far too long to get to the conclusion."
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Alexander Dumas-type adventure novel for a more mature, more complex kind of work" and that he "has lost nothing of his imagination and storytelling abilities", considering this to be Powers's best. Howard Mittelmark of
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London and passes himself off as a medical student. He meets John Keats, who is also studying medicine. One day while visiting the wards they encounter the grief-stricken
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blessing and a curse. The nephilim can prolong the lives of humans and serve as muses who help to inspire great works of creativity, but they are extremely jealous and will destroy anyone they see as a rival. Crawford and the two poets make their way up the
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wrote that while Powers's writing is "often vivid and arresting", it "ultimately it is all too much", and that he "throws out great twisting coils of ideas, layer upon layer, until his tale buckles beneath the weight of his invention." Sue Martin of the
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