The Curse of Four

Just finished reading Caitlin Kitteridge's Curse of four and dear God!  It was soooooo good.  I love this series!  It's The Black London series.  It's black, it's gritty and it has ghost, fae and the supernatural.  I LOVE IT!  I only wish I had this author's talent.   I would love my writing to be just as black and gritty as hers.  She's so f-ing awesome!
Maybe one day, when I figure out how to write a proper novel I'll write something like it.  I doubt it though, since, unfortunatly, my romantic nature and ridiculous idealism gets the better of me.  I just don't think I could think of some one as twisted as Jack Winter.   I idealized the shit out of my male characters so they end up being these nice shiny people. 
Of course, that might not be true of Percy.  I want to make him a bit more realistic.  A little darker.  Though in the original he's kind of dark already.  He has a double personality.  *Sigh*. 
It would be fun to write a book with proper demons and ghosties.  I could write something about John Dee.  He was Elizabeth I's oracle.  He apparently was into angel magic (where you communicate with angels).  His partner in this fucked up little venture Edward Kelly was into black magic and according to Dee the angels would speak through Kelly, particularly one called Madini.  I've never heard of angel magic, but apparently it's not cool.  It's akin to black magic I think.
Anyway, it blew up in his face, and like most conjurers, like Alister Crowely, who thirsted for knowledge (Dee was in it for acadamian knowledge, Alister was in it for the power.  Who knows maybe Dee was in it for the power too).  Anyway, they both ended up in poverty and alone at the end.  But ya know what?  I might save that story for another day :)

Cheers