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Embertide (Book 3 of The Fallow Sisters) by Liz Williams

By John Folk-Williams

Embertide

Liz Williams’ Embertide is the third outing with the Fallow Sisters (following on from Comet Weather and Blackthorn Winter), and it’s another time-slipping and spirit-battling adventure with Bee, Serena, Stella, Luna, and their reality jumping Mom, Alys. Spirits, both good and evil, frequently interrupt their lives in present-day England. Assisting them are a troupe of […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Fiction, Great Series Read Project Tagged With: England, freedom, gods, Liz Williams, myth, primal Britain, shape-shifting, spirits, star beings, time travel

Spear by Nicola Griffith – A Review

By John Folk-Williams

Nicola Griffith Spear

Nicola Griffith’s short novel Spear takes us on a luminous journey deep in Welsh roots of Arthurian legend to record the exploits of Peretur as she seeks to understand her nature and the fate that awaits her at Caer Leon, the stronghold of Arturus and his Companions. As Griffith explains in her afterward, she has […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Fiction Tagged With: Arthurian fantasy, gods, magic, nature, Nicola Griffith, primal Britain, sapphic love

By Force Alone by Lavie Tidhar #WyrdandWonder

By John Folk-Williams

By Force Alone by Lavie Tidhar

I hope no one is so jaded on Arthurian fantasy that they can’t enjoy this glorious retelling and meticulous tear-down of every facet of the over-familiar stories. Every character comes to scurrilous life in By Force Alone, as that title phrase echoes over and over throughout this dynamic, hilarious and strangely moving book. I say […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Fiction, Wyrd and Wonder Tagged With: Arthurian fantasy, fairyland, Lavie Tidhar, magic, myth, primal Britain, violence

The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again by M. John Harrison #WyrdAndWonder

By John Folk-Williams

The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again

The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again by M. John Harrison is a brilliant but perplexing book, straddling the line between fantasy and literary fiction. It’s sort of proto-fantasy in which two principal characters, Shaw and Victoria, play out their lives, as if stuck to a purpose that no longer fits them, hardly able to […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Fiction, Wyrd and Wonder Tagged With: alternate earth, climate change, fantasy, genetic change, M. John Harrison, primal Britain, water

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