It delivers Adam and Vic to a new beginning, not because it was preordained but because they went through hell and back to get there. Deadbeat Druid navigates life and death, and because this is Adam’s world, Life and Death. Slayton also developed a cast of characters who more than undertook the responsibility of this journey they carried it admirably.
Slayton: While indulging my every love of lush, evocative storytelling, David R. and yet, in the end, there is still a glimmer of hope for young Mungo.ĭeadbeat Druid by David R.
It is a brutal story-both physically and sexually violent. It is a full-circle novel that deliberately places Mungo in harm’s way and then shows us how and why he got there, and how he survived. Young Mungo by Douglas Stewart: Douglas Stuart’s Young Mungo is a book that contains multitudes. That doesn’t mean I can’t love him, though, and I did. I will never know firsthand what it means, or feels like, to walk in Benji’s shoes. Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White: In the Acknowledgments of Hell Followed with Us, Andrew Joseph White confesses that his debut novel “began life as a fit of rage.” This is noteworthy because that rage bleeds from every drop of e-ink and every word he accumulated that coalesced into this staggering, powerful, and beautiful story. The Tarot Sequence series is, beyond measure, my love of exceptional storytelling exemplified. Edwards’ conception of this world and my enduring investment in the lives of his characters not only remains unchanged but strengthens with each book, with each challenge, and with each hardship heaped upon them. Edwards: I have fallen madly, deeply, and irrevocably in love with this series and its characters, and I can’t recommend it strongly enough.
I hope we can share our love for them with each other :)Ī Warm, Joyous, and Happy New Year to you all! Sometimes I feel as though I’ve exhausted all my words and have nothing of value left to say (a couple thousand reviews written over the course of 12 years will do that!), but I am looking forward to quite a few books in 2023 with tons of anticipation. I can’t begin to predict what The Novel Approach will look like in the coming year. While this blog has morphed quite a bit over the years, my love for the community and my respect for the authors who feed my insatiable appetite for reading has not wavered. Though that wasn’t the first review I’d ever written-I’d got my start a couple of years before that at two other (now long-gone) sites-it was the beginning of something I could never have imagined. Eleven years ago, on December 7, 2011, I claimed the domain The Novel Approach and posted my first review on the site for Hayden Thorne’s evocative and gorgeous YA Fantasy Renfred’s Masquerade.
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