From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. In Freer's superior heroic fantasy novel, set in 16th-century Scandinavia, allies of a demon try to thwart Christian missionary-magicians from the Holy Roman Empire. Freer (_The Forlorn_) wisely concentrates on individual participants within this big strug...
Burning buildings, and a mob chasing her . . . It would seem that his Scrap was doing her usual best to raise chaos! And trust the dvergar to make his life complicated. He carefully scratched a set of symbols on the edge of the ridge. It would take a while for the spell to work, but such forces w...
So is the road to hell, the steps are just shallower, wider and go the other way. So, when the walking’s easy, don’t believe the road signs. From the parable of the highland pot-mender, The Gospel according to St. Gopal. The radio-unit had survived. It had been in one of the packs that had been s...
Fenn was better with cold iron than he was. He’d ridden the great hound like a horse, clinging to the wild, rough fur, as it bounded through the tussocks. The beast was a better defender than a horse. But he’d felt the need in the land for these things. The old ones understood the hunter…the feno...
He was exhausted and hungry and he was in a better state than his horse. He knew he should be grateful for the horse. Grateful for the magical intervention that had plucked him from the cell, while waiting for the torture chamber, and dropped him next to the horse in a half-ruined stable, a good ...
“You don't understand, Malcolm. You can't send our fleet into their waters. They're sitting on nearly a quarter of the world's coal. Their consumption is nothing like ours. Yes, I know it's been picking up, they're using more, but we really need access to their stocks. We need to stay on trading ...
said that bastard Rainy, who’d nicked his bread. Still, Lampy had to admit that the thief knew how to break chains. He probably knew about anything that you needed to know, when it came to breaking into locked property, Lampy thought. Soon they were all merely wearing meta...