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3/14/2015

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I received a free download of Dark Tidings on Amazon. I thank the author.  This is my fair and honest review.

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If you like your fantasy to come with a healthy dose of humor, look no further than Ken Magee’s Dark Tidings.  Honestly, he has a ready wit, a biting sarcastic voice that will leave you laughing out loud.  In some cases it comes out in a quick description, such as by way of example: “. . . the young Tung who desperately lacked someone respectable and ethical to set his moral compass, his father being the only man in his life and he wasn’t even a good example for the devil to follow. Actually, maybe the devil could have learned a bit from him.” Other times it is displayed in the odd and catchy word pictures, such as in “an eternal split second,” or “his dreamlike memory panicked and fled into the ether.” The dialogue is intriguing:  “Life’s a beach and the tide’s coming in fast.”  And finally, Magee offers some humorous, yet good, advice:  “When you hear hooves coming up behind you, you should think horse, not zebra.” I especially enjoyed Magee’s creative and unique spell forms—the Spell Spell, the Spell of Trouble, the I See No Spell, and so forth.  Very clever indeed!

I find I am always ready to overlook the unlikely in a fantasy, as the whole idea of such a tale is to pose the impossible, and so I did from time to time with Dark Tidings, but that only added to my enjoyment of this read.  Each time I picked it up again, I did so eagerly, waiting for the next bit of engaging banter and to hear more about Magee’s quirky characters. I very much look forward to the next one!



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