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Rated Velvet Was the Night 10/10

This was really good with the minor caveat that having read a couple of the author's other books, I assumed this one would have some SF or supernatural component, but it does not. It's a fairly straight up noir from two viewpoints that have brief crossovers (the set-up is pretty cool actually) and one of them a secretary who loves romance comics, the other mostly a thug working for ... someone. The characters are super well developed and the history (Mexico City in 1970s) and obviously well researched and displayed (although it feels like one of those books where the author only put a small fraction of the research actually on the page), I learned things (but not from infodumps). I guess it's not *that* straight up a noir.

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Published 2026-08-18 17:57 UTC · bridged from Atmosphere