At the ripe old age of forty, all the citizens of the Safe Lands are “liberated”, sent by their government into Bliss. No one is certain what, exactly, that means, but Omar and Mason are about to find out. “Find pleasure in Bliss,” the liberator says, but it won’t be easy. Meanwhile, in the Safe…
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CSFF Blog Tour: Captives, Outcasts, Rebels
Today we begin the CSFF blog tour of … wait a minute, it’s in my notes … Rebels. Yes, that’s it: Rebels, by Jill Williamson. Rebels is the third and final book of the Safe Lands Trilogy. All the books have titles that consist entirely of a single noun, and there’s a common theme –…
CSFF Blog Tour: Merlin’s Nightmare
The whole of Britain is blighted with a drought. In the south, there is war against the Saxenow. In the north, there is war against the Picts. From within, the men of Kernow turn and attack the king’s city. Morgana, a woman with evil powers, drives them on, and has other plots in store. It…
CSFF Blog Tour: Two Distinguishing Characteristics
Last year CSFF toured Merlin’s Blade and Merlin’s Shadow, the first and second books of Robert Treskillard’s Merlin Spiral; now we finish the trilogy with Merlin’s Nightmare. But not the story. That will continue with the Pendragon Spiral. I’ll be reviewing Merlin’s Nightmare tomorrow. Actually, I was going to review it today, but that was…
CSFF Blog Tour: A Superstition Transformed
Outstanding among those beliefs that are universally characteristic of the religion of superstition is the conviction that “a man’s name is the essence of his being” (one Hebrew text says “a man’s name is his person” and another, “his name is his soul”). Joshua Trachtenberg, Jewish Magic and Superstition There’s an old superstition that names…
CSFF Blog Tour: The Warden and the Wolf King
The Jewels of Anniera are preparing for war. All the long winter they have been rallying the people of the Green Hollows to go up against Gnag the Nameless, to end his destruction by destroying him. The Skreeans are preparing for war. All winter Gammon has been leading them in the work, making ready to…
CSFF Blog Tour: Randomness
This summer Rabbit Room Press released The Warden and the Wolf King, book four of the Wingfeather Saga, written by Andrew Peterson. Book three, Monster in the Hollows, was published three years ago. Three. Many authors would be in breach of contract well before they took so long to produce their next book. But writing…
CSFF Blog Tour: Dreamtreaders
Archer Keaton’s life, when he’s awake, is fairly ordinary: a brother, a sister, a dad, school days, chores. Friends, including that one he would like to have as more than a friend. But when Archer Keaton is asleep, his life is extraordinary. He is a Dreamtreader – roving the Dreamscape, meeting its many and often…
CSFF Blog Tour: Like a Crusader
“Crusader perched like a gargoyle on a second floor ledge …” So begins Numb – with Crusaders and gargoyles, icons of the Middle Ages and the Catholic Church. Although there are obvious and significant differences between the True Church of Numb and the medieval Catholic Church, there are also definite similarities. The power exercised in…
CSFF Blog Tour: Numb
Crusader is the best assassin the Church has, carrying out all his missions with heartless thoroughness. He is intelligent and methodical in his work, his skills well-honed. And he’s numb. No pain can stop him, no emotions can get in his way. Until he is assigned a new victim and, for reasons he doesn’t understand,…