Exhilarated by Pope reputation of fantasy literature Tim Powers above, I made myself a joy to return to one of the most famous novels. Besides this Poker souls, we owe him among other routes of Anubis or the weight of his gaze. Poker of Souls is a cavalcade under the Western blazing sun US against an implacable machination themed cards, and in particular tarot deck. Scott Crane, the main character, is a victim of a plot created by his real father to make him immortality through body changes regularly (I know, it's complicated). The novel is a chase in Las Vegas against the fulfillment of a destiny funeral and logic maps. Unbridled and mystical Poker Souls had it all. So why? Why boredom is it mingled with the game? Poorly written, badly perhaps translated. Still, writing is extremely rough and confused, and makes the whole quite indigestible, there are around lumps. The scenario would also have been better led. By-cons descriptions of a decadent Las Vegas, with its burgers dripping, his sweaty rednecks, her scalded beer and poker games completed at dawn is brought. The layer of mysticism provided by the power of maps it very well mix. If only reading had not ripped off as many yawns ...
