Creatures of Want and Ruin is set in the 20s in Long Island, in the town of Amityville.
What's truly spectacular, though, is that Tanzer has delivered an extremely topical political novel couched in diabolism, occultism, fantasy, and a head-spinning adventure. Tanzer gives us the bored society wife and the tomboyish bootlegger with a great deal of insight into both psyches, playing with tropes in a way that makes both incredibly human to the reader. But Ellie and Fin, and the cast and crew around them (Gabriel, Lester, SJ, Aaron, Jones (oh, Jones)) are wonderful, in their own ways.
I found I liked Ellie and Fin just a bit less than Will and Temper's sisters, and main characters can make or break a novel. I was worried picking this one up - would it live up to my expectations? Would it live up to its predecessor? In some ways, it doesn't. Molly Tanzer's Creatures of Want and Ruin is a loose follow-up to Creatures of Will and Temper, which I read at the beginning of the year and then browbeat every single person I know into reading, or close to.
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