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Originally posted by Sever:
I'm seeking a change of pace from the usual, standard issue fantasy novels. I want somehing that doesn't have a 'chosen one' or a 'dark lord' or a 2D paper cut-out 'wizard'. Heck. I want something with a plot that doesn't even involve some farm kid/urchin/prince or [shudder] hobbit saving the world from a great evil.
It just seems that modern fantasy has grown stale and unoriginal. Am i searching in vain?
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Read the book Ashes and Angel Wings, written by Greg Stolze. it is a VERY witty noval. it talks abt demons returning on earth, a topic easily directing into overpowering villians/heros slaughtering their oppositte side/s. but no, this is not what this noval is about, no open blood sheding slaughtering on the thousands.
to summerize on the plot (without spoiling the content), and this is what the book's back cover was about anyways, the demon Hasmed was forced to return to earth to do his master's bidding (summon him to the world of men). Wicked and confident, Hasmed set his mind on becoming the insider of a local mafia and making it his own, while secretly collecting worshipers to enhance his power. However fate had it that he possessed the form of a three time loser Harvey Ciullo, all the while this hardened child of pit cannot shake off his affections for Harvey's daughter. An instinct could either redeem his soul or destroy him forever.
the author's intelligence and wisdom reflected through his writting.
[ 04-15-2003, 05:15 PM: Message edited by: Ken Rauhl ]