Horror
A Welsh family, a mountain, and a star lord is already doing more work than half the premises I see.
What stuck with me here is the sheer oddness of the setup, and that it mostly keeps its nerve. The supernatural and the technological sides do feel like they’re in the same fight, rather than one tidy idea swallowing the other. That matters. The minute a book with this kind of premise starts explaining itself too neatly, it loses the charm.
Strange, slightly old-fashioned in the best way, and worth a look if you like your fiction a bit unruly.
What stuck with me here is the sheer oddness of the setup, and that it mostly keeps its nerve. The supernatural and the technological sides do feel like they’re in the same fight, rather than one tidy idea swallowing the other. That matters. The minute a book with this kind of premise starts explaining itself too neatly, it loses the charm.
Strange, slightly old-fashioned in the best way, and worth a look if you like your fiction a bit unruly.
That premise does have the useful quality of sounding like it might actually derail in interesting ways.
I’m a bit more interested in the mountain side of it than the “star lord” part, honestly. Tech versus supernatural can go flat fast if one of them is just there to be impressive. But if the book lets the setting stay properly strange, with the family caught in the middle, that’s the sort of thing I’d pick up.
I’m a bit more interested in the mountain side of it than the “star lord” part, honestly. Tech versus supernatural can go flat fast if one of them is just there to be impressive. But if the book lets the setting stay properly strange, with the family caught in the middle, that’s the sort of thing I’d pick up.