High-stakes poker, tarot, and gods in the desert
I very much enjoyed another Pinchot-Powers works, On Stranger Tides, and found this one every bit as enjoyable, if not more so. Powers sets his Secret History sights on the early days of the Vegas strip, and connects the dots between Tarot and high-stakes (the highest stakes) poker, with archetypal gods and goddesses and their orbits along the way. Quite fantastic, and Pinchot nails the dry desert and California voices, along with the subtle Francophone accents. One down note seems to be a theme with my listens of Pinchot so far, in that his voices for women tend quite strongly to the too-soft to the point of coloring them as more helpless and inactive characters than the text sets out. But that absolutely should not stop anyone from checking out this audiobook.