Review: The Humming Blade by Christopher Clark
★★★★ 
Fantasy readers love the promise of epic battles, inexplicable power, walking corpses, ancient cats, magic swords, and heroes with impossible destinies to discover. All of that and more is on display within the first 15 pages of The Humming Blade, the stunning new novel by Christopher Clark. The author wastes no time sucking readers into his fantastical world, and while the use of a dream sequence to kick off a novel isn’t unique, it certainly works for this book.
Wyatt Arden is an unremarkable kid living in the tiny town of Ven with his mother, working the farm […]
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