Fiefdom
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Fiefdom
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Narrated by:
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Charlie Sanderson
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"Gene the Hackman, top dog, him done the great Walk Around. Not for him the darkness, not for him the Time of Ice that we know today."
Evelyn War is a Believer. She knows that in the Old Time, long before the Time of Ice, the Masters fought a war with Them, great chitinous beasts that stalked the world and rended and killed. She knows the Masters sent fierce, doglike Aux like her to watch over their great sleep and to keep Them off their lawn. She knows the stories are not just lessons in the ways of war. Them were real.
But in the frozen ruins of Berlin, Them have not been seen for many years. Now the Aux fight among themselves and say all that was just stories. They scorn Evelyn and mock her warnings. But the ice is melting, and the whistling calls of Them can be heard in the tunnels of the U-Bahn once more....
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Charlie Sanderson gets the tone just right in her narration as the book sweeps you along in an underworld adventure set in a time far beyond the world of the 'Kingdom' comics that it draws upon. The dog-soldiers' choppy dialogue works brilliantly. The only downside is the jokey names ('Gene the Hackman' etc). It become too much, particularly when other packs are encountered and the tally of daft names shoots up. It's a silly affectation that's fine in a comic, but doesn't work in a novel.
A truly great and unusual novel. Read perfectly.
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