The Other City of Angels by S.P Somtow is a modern retelling of the Gothic tale of Bluebeard’s wife and her fatal discovery of her husband’s dark secret. Filled in equal measures with romance, terror, and laughter, the novel portrays Bangkok as a Gothic metropolis: a city stuck between illusion and reality, where dreams and nightmares come to life, simultaneously backwards and modern, spiritual and material, and full of peculiarities that make one doubt whether such a place exists at all. (KA)