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Down the Darkening Road: An Epic Fantasy

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This is the kind of book where you wake up at three in the morning because you can't sleep because you're still so wrapped up in the storyline that you end up reading the darn thing through heavily lidded eyes, rubbing sleep boogers from your tear ducts, as you laugh your way into the early dawn, until it's suddenly time to get ready to go to work and you're counting the hours 'till you can get home again to finish this thing already so you can finally get some sleep.
How's that for a compound sentence?
Now you probably want to know what this book is about, so I'll summarize.
We, the audience, are hanging out or whatever, listening to our main character, who narrates his adventures over the course of a few nights.
He, and a select group of wildly different individuals with unique skills were handpicked for a journey to resurrect this dead god, basically.
What's cool is that we only know as much as our main character knows, and he seems to catch on slower than everybody else that he hangs out with so its usually pretty amusing.
Now, don't get all hung up on this dead god thing, because there are still dragons and elves and magic dudes running around, wreaking havoc and making things interesting, but fortunately nothing feels recycled about this book. The theme of this book raises questions like, "should i support this dictator who promises me security even though he's killing truckloads of innocents to further his cause?" Which, i know, is not at all relevant in today's troubled times or anything, but it's still a good question to ask oneself.
Pretty much, down the darkening road is a hilarious, ironic, and engrossing book to read.

So read it already. Sheesh.

I bought this book for my son who enjoys fantasy type books. Since his birthday was in a few weeks, I thumbed through and began reading bits and pieces and finally decided I need to read the whole thing from start to finish. I am certainly glad I did. Since I haven't read anything like this since the Hobbit decadess ago, I wasn't sure what to expect. The author certainly got my attention. He writes very well and keeps you right in the plot. I would recommend this for anyone who wants to read an exciting fantasy story.

George Linsteadt