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Dark Fate
I’m sure we can all relate to
those nights of revelry lost to drink, where the carousing continued into the
wee hours and you wake up the next day, remembering hardly any of it. But what
happens when you discover huge chunks of your memory have been taken by a
stunning dark elf, apparently, with your consent in order to . . . what? Your
guess is as good as mine. Why? Because you can’t remember and no one will tell
you, THAT’s why!
Ah, such things are just another
day to Jakobus Shaw, as he highlights:
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I’ve been
through a lot in the last few years.
I escaped from the Deep, a prison
of eternal torment, fought living nightmares, stopped wars, and banished an
immortal dark phoenix in the eternal abyss of an Old One’s fathomless mind. All
while making some damn good friends and allies along the way.
I’ve done all this and yet, when
Shareal, a dark elf, a creature of beauty and danger, returns from the past I
didn’t even know I had, I can’t help but be afraid.
Shareal needs the safety of my bar
to house a meeting of the world’s most powerful and treacherous dark elves. I
don’t want to do it, but the elf drives a hard bargain, so…I better put out the
good silver.
Dealing with dark elves is never
a wise thing to do, but I’ve never been renowned for my intelligence. They say
blood is thicker than water, but for the dark elves, power is the only true
family they have ever known.
I tried to run from my past,
tried to bury it and hope it stayed dead, but the seeds I planted long ago are
growing fruit and it’s time I started reaping what I sowed.
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Yes, Marcus Abshire presents
us with a corker of an adventure in Dark
Fate, as the past begins to catch up with Jakobus in ways he can’t begin to
comprehend. And that’s the thing when you’ve been involved with the deepest,
darkest magic. It never goes away, and the consequence of wielding it can turn
up out of the blue when you least expect it.
The thing is – and without
giving anything of the plot away – why now? What has Jakobus been involved with
in the past that now obligates him to a certain course of action that may not
only result in his own death, but the end of everything he holds dear? And why
are the dark elves so certain in his compliance?
Yes, not everything is as
first appears, and as Jakobus begins to navigate this latest path of magical
eggshells, he must try and unravel what it is about his abilities that everyone
seems to want a piece of.
As always, we have a
roister-doister, action-packed, mayhem filled adventure, where our protagonist’s
penchant for getting down and dirty often gets in the way of making swift
progress. But THAT’s where the fun lies. Because when the fate of the world
lies in your hands, who wants boring and easy? Blunt humor; great dialogue;
superb interaction between characters; thrills & spills galore. It’s all
there, waiting for you to turn the next page.
