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Ron Glick. CreateSpace, $14.99 trade paper (412p) ISBN 978-1-4961-0025-2
With all the subtlety and grace of a raging bull in a china shop, the first installment of the Godslayer Cycle harkens back to long nights spent with fantasy role-playing games in a friend’s basement. Nathaniel Goodsmith’s fate is to be an instrument of the Pantheon of old gods—long thought dead by the people of the realm—in the coming war with the unimaginatively named New Order of younger gods. Tasked with this mystical imperative, he must go forth to find the first of the nine swords forged by the old gods before agents of the New Order can thwart him. Nuggets of creativity, like the old gods’ intriguing approach to gender, are briefly explored but overshadowed by the crowd of characters and their clumsy, overly verbose dialog (“We would infect this New Order and cripple it afore it can deliver unto us a death blow”). Details are lovingly expounded, ad nauseam, grinding the narrative to a screeching halt. (BookLife)

Reviewed by Publishers Weekly on 08/29/2014

Release date 03/01/2014

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