Book: 'Bloodring', Faith Hunter

[hawkwing_lb]

Book 166, Fiction 156:

156. Bloodring, Faith Hunter.

The cover copy lies. Despite the red herring lust interest and the cover quote by Kim Harrison, this? Is a very good book. With juicy post-apocalyptic worldbuilding, angels, demons, mages, and battles.

I appear to have something of a weakness for merciless angels in fiction. This book takes a little while to get rolling. But about page fifty, things start cracking along. Nicely. And after that it really doesn't disappoint.

I really quite like a book that uses Revelations in its world-building while remaining neutral on the question of whether God exists. That? Is just plain cool.

Good book.

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It turns out I have appropriate music for this post, too. Well perhaps not entirely appropriate, but the title sounds close.

Comments

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

Dang, need to read that.

One of these years I will finish the 500kwordish Christian mythos end of the world novel; it's not a priority ATM because nobody's going to buy it unless I've sold other fiction first, and I'm not sure it's sellable at all because of being so very pre-9/11 in many ways, but I want to finish it anyway.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

I have ordered the sequels. I haven't been doing much reading lately, relatively speaking (mostly because there are books I have Expectations for, and want to be able to actually sit down and enjoy them), but starting flicking through the first few pages of this one and ended up not stopping. *g*

500kwordish Christian mythos end of the world novel

...You don't think small, do you? *g*

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

If it were straightforward and simple, someone would already have done it.

[ It's kind of half coming from "why does no young reasonably culturally literate Western adult who falls into a secondary world fantasy ever think 'Oh, it's like Narnia or Oz' {I don't think it's stretching it to assume those referents even for a non-fannish young adult} and make the appropriate assumptions, right or wrong", and half "what kind of havoc can you cause when a skilled systems programmer meets a wold where magic follows a system", in collision with the end of the world happening in 1998 in a cosmology where the received Christian mythos is very much history as written by the winners. ]

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Cool.