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My Brother's Keeper Hardcover – September 5, 2023

by Tim Powers (Author)
4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 208 ratings
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THE TRUE STORY OF THE BRONTË SISTERS AS ONLY TIM POWERS COULD WRITE IT.

This is a ghost story. It is a story about werewolves, and things that go bump in the night. It is a story of an ill-fated land, the pathless moors of Northern England so well chronicled in Wuthering Heights. And it is the story of a real family whose destiny it is to deal with this darkly glamorous and dangerous world.

When young Emily Brontë helps a wounded man she finds at the foot of an ancient pagan shrine in the remote Yorkshire moors, her life becomes contentiously entwined with his. He is Alcuin Curzon, embittered member of a sect working to eradicate the resurgent plague of lycanthropy in Europe and northern England.

But Emily’s father, curate of the Haworth village church, is responsible for having unwittingly brought a demonic werewolf god to Yorkshire forty years ago—and it is taking possession of Emily’s beloved but foolish and dissolute brother. Curzon must regard Emily’s family as a dire threat.

In spite of being at deadly odds, Emily and Curzon find themselves thrown together in fighting werewolves, confronting pagan gods, even saving each other from the lures of moorland demons. And in a final battle that sweeps from the haunted village of Haworth to a monstrous shrine far out on the moors, the two of them must be reluctant allies against an ancient power that seems likely to take their souls as well as their lives.
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    1982192860
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Tim Powers won the World Fantasy Award twice for his critically acclaimed novels Last Call and Declare. Declare also received the International Horror Guild Award. His novel On Stranger Tides inspired the Monkey Island video game series and was sold to Disney for the movie franchise installment Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. His book The Anubis Gates won the Philip K. Dick Award and is considered a modern science fiction classic and a progenitor of the steampunk genre. Powers won the Dick Award again for straight science fiction post-apocalypse novel Dinner at Deviant’s Palace. Many of his novels, such as Last Call and Alternate Routes, are so-called “secret histories,” which use real historical events in which supernatural and metaphysical elements influence the the story in weird and compelling manners. Powers grew up in Southern California and studied English at Cal State Fullerton, where he met frequent collaborators James Blaylock and K.W. Jeter, as well as renowned science fiction author Philip K. Dick, who became a close friend and mentor. Powers is a practicing Catholic who claims “Stories are more effective, and more truly represent the writer’s actual convictions, when they manifest themselves without the writer's conscious assistance. I concern myself with my plots, but I let my subconscious worry about my themes.” Powers still resides in Southern California with his wife, Serena.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Baen (September 5, 2023)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1982192860
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1982192860
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.47 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.13 x 1.3 x 9.25 inches
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Tim Powers is the author of numerous novels including Hide Me Among the Graves, Three Days to Never, Declare, Last Call, and On Stranger Tides, which inspired the feature film Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. He has won the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award twice, and the World Fantasy Award three times. He lives in San Bernardino, California.

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Stan Barr
5.0 out of 5 stars My Brother's Keeper
Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2024
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Tim Powers has the chutspah to write a supernatural thriller about Emily Bronte - and pulls it off. I couldn't put it down. The ending touched me. Fantasy of a high order.
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Berni
4.0 out of 5 stars Like Stress of Her Regard but with less maiming of the characters
Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2023
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This is a return to the Tim Powers of The Stress of Her Regard: a supernatural take on historical figures. Whereas the earlier book covered Mary Shelley and her crowd with vampires, this one features the Bronte family and werewolves.

I don't know a lot about the Brontes - I read Jayne Eyre and Wuthering Heights decades ago - but I know that Powers is a writer who does his research and seamlessly integrates the historical with the imagination. In this, we first meet the Bronte siblings as pre-adolescents, making a small blood sacrifice at a pagan shrine in the hopes of seeing their dead sister, Maria.

Years later, this comes back to bite them as they find they had been misled by their brother and that this fact entangled them in a an age-old encounter with demonic entities, one of which had tangled with their family before.

I have been unimpressed with Powers' output of the last 20 years. This one stands with the best of his works.
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Fozzetti
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent as always
Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2023
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At first I did think "Aw, gee- not werewolves & the Brontës!" Why not Jane Austin and zombies (ick)?

But bought it anyway, and I'm very glad I did. Mr Power's writing transports me to another, wonderful, world. I love all his books. I hope he lives to a very old age and writes a dozen more, at least books. Whatever the subject, it'll be excellent.
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Patricia Bascomb
5.0 out of 5 stars Great novel
Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2023
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One of his better books, easier to follow than The Stress of her Regard. A touching look at Emily Bronte. A good werewolf story.
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K. Bird Lincoln
3.0 out of 5 stars rich historical bronte sister details with werewolves-- not enough character development
Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2024
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3.5 stars actually.

Bronte Sisters history with added dash of werewolves on the moors? I was excited to read this. I really enjoyed all the Pride & Prejudice Zombie stuff etc. However….this was not to my taste. More and more I am finding that when (sorry!) male authors try their hand at Austen or Bronte– the juicy, nuanced emotional relationships that I enjoy so very much get lost in plot.

That’s what happens here. Oh don’t get me wrong, this book is full of historical Bronte references that are fun to come across (Keeper the dog, Branwell’s London stuff, etc.) and the writing is fine, but the focus on actions to the detriment of the emotional inner being just isn’t my personal taste. We get whole passages of historical interest on making tea, but how Emily evolved into a rather young mannish character (and actually that was part of my problem, I suspect, her quite mannish behavior never evoked any consequences for her female state she had to deal with) as well as why/how she kept going back to Branwell (who was super annoying) just didn’t ring true for me.

The werewolf element was gothic horror fun, though, especially the ultimate goal of the werewolf society at the Haworth church at the end was great. Just….I got bored reading about endless tromps through the moors without the emotional tromps as well.
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J. McFadden
5.0 out of 5 stars Quite a departure, but pleasantly so!
Reviewed in the United States on September 20, 2023
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I don’t have the best of memories for specifics, but the story structure and writing seem different from Powers’ usual.

Such a wonderful idea for a story, and told expertly. My only knowledge of the Brontes was from a Monty Python gag about the semaphore version of Wuthering Heights, but now I’m interested in reading their works.
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Christopher O'Neil
4.0 out of 5 stars OTOH, is this the last novel actually to be written by Powers himself?
Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2023
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Yeah, The Stress of Her Regard turned out to be WAYYYY less of a beach read than anticipated and all the subsequent books were thus greeted with a degree of apprehension. Still, if Disney paid him at all for On Stranger Tides, he prolly ain't living above the ol' laundromat anymore.

Rock on dude.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Spectacularly spooky
Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2023
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This is a weirdly wonderful tale of the Bronte family, no doubt exhaustively researched, but intertwining the ancient beliefs of Picts, Romans, and more modern religions.
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Francois Cherpion
5.0 out of 5 stars The Brontë as you never knew them
Reviewed in France on November 2, 2023
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Tim Powers takes us again in a world of magic where old powers can't stay dead and where talent comes partly from unwritten contracts. The Brontë family is trying to get rid of an old family curse with the help of a redeemed werewolf and a Roman goddess. Beautiful and moving
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Yorkie
2.0 out of 5 stars A disappointing follow-up to the author's previous literature-themed novels
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 25, 2023
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I had such high hopes for this book, but there were times when I felt like throwing it against the wall. The unintended comedy is bad enough - I was often reminded of "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" - but the author's shoddy research is inexcusable. The Black Bull isn't built of brick! There were no trees in the Haworth graveyard when the Brontes lived at the parsonage! Worst of all, I can't understand why the story revolves around werewolves when Britain has absolutely no native werewolf legends.
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