Kevin's Watch

If Amelia Morgan’s life were a color it would be positively beige. Nothing of note has ever happened in the sleepy seaside town where she lives with her eccentric grandmother and she is a level-seven hypochondriac. Things pick up though, before her 18th birthday, when her boyfriend disappears, the rate of human combustion in the town goes stellar and a maniacal stranger purporting to be her long-lost father starts hanging around town melting people. It turns out Amelia Morgan is a witch, hidden in wild and windy Donegal by her mother’s people when she was just a baby. She is daughter to a mad man and granddaughter to the ancient Celtic Goddess of war, death and destruction ­­– the Morrigan. And now her deadbeat Dad requires her blood to raise his corpse mother from the grave so they can rule the worlds. On an epic journey she battles headless horsemen, dark angels, the undead and her crazed family members to save the worlds above and below from the black shadow of death the Morrigan casts across the land.

Stonemaybe wrote:Ordered Emerald Witch from Lulu this week. The action takes place where I grew up so should be fun.

If Amelia Morgan’s life were a color it would be positively beige. Nothing of note has ever happened in the sleepy seaside town where she lives with her eccentric grandmother and she is a level-seven hypochondriac. Things pick up though, before her 18th birthday, when her boyfriend disappears, the rate of human combustion in the town goes stellar and a maniacal stranger purporting to be her long-lost father starts hanging around town melting people. It turns out Amelia Morgan is a witch, hidden in wild and windy Donegal by her mother’s people when she was just a baby. She is daughter to a mad man and granddaughter to the ancient Celtic Goddess of war, death and destruction ­­– the Morrigan. And now her deadbeat Dad requires her blood to raise his corpse mother from the grave so they can rule the worlds. On an epic journey she battles headless horsemen, dark angels, the undead and her crazed family members to save the worlds above and below from the black shadow of death the Morrigan casts across the land.

“In a world without global terrorism Joe, a private detective, is hired by a mysterious woman to find a man: the obscure author of pulp fiction novels featuring one Osama Bin Laden: Vigilante...”

“Joe’s quest to find the man takes him across the world, from the backwaters of Asia to the European Capitals of Paris and London, and as the mystery deepens around him there is one question he is trying hard not to ask: who is he, really, and how much of the books is fiction? Chased by unknown assailants, Joe’s identity slowly fragments as he discovers the shadowy world of the refugees, ghostly entities haunting the world in which he lives. Where do they come from? And what do they want? Joe knows how the story should end, but even he is not ready for the truths he’ll find in New York and, finally, on top a quiet hill above Kabul—nor for the choice he will at last have to make...

“In Osama, Lavie Tidhar brilliantly delves into the post-9/11 global subconscious, mixing together elements of film noir, non-fiction, alternative history and international thriller to create an unsettling—yet utterly compelling—portrayal of our times.”

Murrin wrote:The man with more money than sense: I just ordered the entire set of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman. I've never read any of it before.

I'm Murrin wrote:I've read three of those six, and they are all excellent. True greats. (Riddle-Master, Amber, Perdido)

Fist and Faith wrote:I've read and very much enjoyed The Name of the Wind and The Chronicles of Amber.


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