"On the Banks of Lethe"

[theweaselking]

Lethe is the story of a man who receives a series of desperate messages from a childhood friend, who used to spend all her time with him, she's coming to meet him. She says she still loves him.

He has no idea who she is.

And she knows way too much to be lying about all this.

Things go downhill from there.

demiurgent, being far more eloquent than myself, says

If I were to describe the book, I'd be somewhat at a loss. It's got a little Noir to it -- a little sense of the One Good Man fighting a battle. But at the same time, it's Noir as written by Sean Stewart and soundtracked by the Sisters of Mercy. The One Good Man is always a flawed figure, but this time his flaws are held together with barbed wire and set on fire. It's Portrait of the Artist as Cursed By Non-Euclidean Monstrosities.

I'm having the same problem Eric did in describing the book, for much the same reason, but what I can tell you is that I sat down to read the first chapter or two and found myself nearly a hundred pages in and wanting more, stopping only because it was two in the morning. This book draws me in and makes me want to keep reading in a way that only a few other authors have - Stephen King, Terry Pratchett, Lois Bujold, and George RR Martin, for example.

This is a damn good book. Read this review. Click on the WebSnark link and read that review. Hit the Amazon page and read THAT review. Then, buy the damn book already. It's worth the price and if you buy it, he'll write more.

And J Grant writing more is goood.

EDIT: but don't take my word for it. Read the preview, here.

Full disclosure: flemco sent me a free copy of the book. He's way awesome that way. The review is based on the strength of the book, though, not because it was free. John Ringo gave me free books, too, and you don't see me saying nice things about him.