Book Review: S.M. Stirling’s Shadows of Falling Night
The fate of all humanity hangs in the balance… She’s back…leading a blood-drinking breed who secretly control the world and intend to reduce humanity to a herd.
The fate of all humanity hangs in the balance… She’s back…leading a blood-drinking breed who secretly control the world and intend to reduce humanity to a herd.
Time is running out for Chandler, the elite assassin whose mission to rescue her sister from a notorious black ops prison landed her at the top of the nation’s Most Wanted list. Burned by her handlers and forced to work with her mortal enemy in a race to preserve the very government that wants her dead, the living weapon has become a ticking time bomb.
It’s a battle against the Shadowspawn, and Adrian and Ellen ally with the Brotherhood to break the Council’s hold on humanity. A move that is against his own.
Homo Lupens, Shadowspawn. They ruled the earth eons ago and still exist. Adrian Brézé is one, but he rebelled against his own. Chose to live as an ordinary man and now must battle his own.
Haunted by his dreams of a red tide, Odd is pulled to a coastal town where the forces against him have official sanction and a more sinister authority
Odd hopes to start over in St. Bartholomew’s Abbey, but trouble has a way of finding him, and it slinks back onto his path in the form of the sinister bodachs he has met previously.
A friend of Odd’s has disappeared. The worst is feared, and Odd discovers something worse than a dead body, encounters an enemy of exceptional cunning, and spirals into a vortex of terror.
A gift? Maybe a curse. Odd has never been sure, but he tries to do his best by the souls who seek him out. Sometimes they want justice, and sometimes Odd’s tips to the police chief solve a crime.
Thirty short stories that put the fun back into dark fiction, featuring a wide range of humorous and highly entertaining horror-filled tales.
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