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Two books you should keep an eye out for and review:
byNeil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE is a fable that reshapes modern fantasy: moving, terrifying and elegiac - as pure as a dream, as delicate as a butterfly's wing, as dangerous as a knife in the dark, from storytelling genius Neil Gaiman.
It began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed.
It began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed.
Dark creatures from beyond the world are on the loose, and it will take everything our narrator has just to stay alive:
there is primal horror here, and menace unleashed - within his family and from the forces that have gathered to destroy it.
His only defense is three women, on a farm at the end of the lane. The youngest of them claims that her duckpond is an ocean. The oldest can remember the Big Bang.
His only defense is three women, on a farm at the end of the lane. The youngest of them claims that her duckpond is an ocean. The oldest can remember the Big Bang.
THE THREE SPIRIT KNIGHT (The Legend of Victor Standish #4)
The past is never dead. It’s not even past.
For Victor Standish, the son of the Angel of Death,
past, present, and future exist in the eternal Now … if he is foolhardy enough to will it.
Yet, the rubble of fact and the tinsel of probability have been consumed by the End of Days, leaving only truth and nightmare:
All those Victor loves have died saving reality.
What began a...more
For Victor Standish, the son of the Angel of Death,
past, present, and future exist in the eternal Now … if he is foolhardy enough to will it.
Yet, the rubble of fact and the tinsel of probability have been consumed by the End of Days, leaving only truth and nightmare:
All those Victor loves have died saving reality.
What began a...more
Kindle Edition, 224 pages
Published November 24th 2012
What's more ... with a review for THE THREE SPIRIT KNIGHT on Goodreads or Amazon,
you get an entry to win
a Johnny Depp autographed photograph when 12 reviews appear on its Amazon page!
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I feel it is about time I made a statement on your blog. In the past I have commented occasionally but have never said much beyond the relevance of the comment to the post.
ReplyDeleteI find your blog quite compelling and enjoy the sometimes obscure analogies packed with good advice. For my shame I have never read any of your books but it is something I aim to put right.
I presume some are linked and ergo should be read in order. Are they all in a series or are some 'stand-alone' books? If they are a series what is the title of the first book, or if there are individual novels which is your personal favourite?
I commend you for your energy in posting so frequently and wish I had similar resolve. Thanks.
Thanks very much, JP:
ReplyDeleteYour comment a lot to me this morning. I've been on the go all through it, so this is the first that I've had a chance to reply:
I try to make my cyber-home a place that is entertaining, fun, and helpful.
You make me feel as if I've succeeded there a time or two. :-)
You're right:
My novels occur in the same universe, minor characters taking center-stage in their own books from time to time. In a sense, they are, indeed, linked.
Victor Standish is my Huckleberry Finn/Ulysses. And his adventures start in THE LEGEND OF VICTOR STANDISH:
http://www.amazon.com/THE-LEGEND-VICTOR-STANDISH-ebook/dp/B005NCUTAG/ref=pd_sim_kstore_1
Samuel McCord takes him into his haunted jazz club, Meilori's, when Victor first arrives in New Orleans.
Samuel is part Batman, part Paladin(of HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL fame - a gentleman gunfighter{played by Richard Boone} who preferred to settle problems without violence; yet, when forced to fight, he excelled. Paladin lived in the Hotel Carlton in San Francisco, where he dressed in formal attire and attended the opera.
McCord lives in the haunted jazz club he named for his mysterious, now missing, wife.
His modern adventures begin in FRENCH QUARTER NOCTURNE:
http://www.amazon.com/FRENCH-QUARTER-NOCTURNE-ebook/dp/B004YTMNRG/ref=pd_sim_kstore_22
His first Old West adventures begin in RITE OF PASSAGE (though the prelude & epilogue is narrated by William Faulkner in the New Orleans of the Roaring 20's):
http://www.amazon.com/RITES-OF-PASSAGE-ebook/dp/B004XQVPYM/ref=pd_sim_kstore_3
I have a sampler of my different characters for 99 cents, BRING ME THE HEAD OF McCORD!
http://www.amazon.com/BRING-THE-HEAD-McCORD-ebook/dp/B008ZM9B8M/ref=pd_sim_kstore_2
There is a stand-alone mystic fable, THE BEAR WITH TWO SHADOWS (Think THE LORD OF THE RINGS meets Native American myth):
http://www.amazon.com/THE-BEAR-WITH-SHADOWS-ebook/dp/B004MDLWD0/ref=pd_sim_kstore_2
I would have sent you THE LEGEND OF VICTOR STANDISH for free, but you do not have a published profile. Rats. :-)
I hope this helps.
Thank you for liking my blog and wanting to sample some of my novels. Roland