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pbanditp's review
4.0
Welcome to the complex world of Amden Bog. A land of magic, monsters, potions, shape shifters, cultists, and resurrection, all with a southern flare. It is kind of the Middle Ages in the swamps.
I picture falling down huts with dirt floors and thatched roofs, candles and lanterns burning to push away the dark, herbs and spider webs hanging from support beams, and rivers for roads.
This is a collection of short tales that weave together to tell the whole story. With reoccurring characters but with no real main character or overall subject except the bog and those living around it. There were lots of characters and I wish I had made some more notes. Sometimes it took me awhile to remember who someone was.
David Rose does a great job with these separated stories and getting into the character. The first story is told in first person from an uneducated young woman without a lot of description because that is how Matina is. Where the second story is the opposite and there are paragraphs dedicated to small things.
Overall this was a story I had to work at to keep track of what was going on. The end result was a good story but was more of a fantasy than the horror that I was looking for. Perhaps I should have read the authors other book, Mulgara, first. 3.5 stars
I picture falling down huts with dirt floors and thatched roofs, candles and lanterns burning to push away the dark, herbs and spider webs hanging from support beams, and rivers for roads.
This is a collection of short tales that weave together to tell the whole story. With reoccurring characters but with no real main character or overall subject except the bog and those living around it. There were lots of characters and I wish I had made some more notes. Sometimes it took me awhile to remember who someone was.
David Rose does a great job with these separated stories and getting into the character. The first story is told in first person from an uneducated young woman without a lot of description because that is how Matina is. Where the second story is the opposite and there are paragraphs dedicated to small things.
Overall this was a story I had to work at to keep track of what was going on. The end result was a good story but was more of a fantasy than the horror that I was looking for. Perhaps I should have read the authors other book, Mulgara, first. 3.5 stars
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