Feast of
Chaos (Four
Feasts till Darkness #3)
By: Christian
A. Brown
Genre: Dark Fantasy/ Literary/ Romance
Publisher: Forsythia Press
Date of Publication: September 23rd, 2016
ISBN: 978-0994014429
ASIN: B01M1ESQ3Y
Number of pages: 698
Word Count: 250K
Cover Artist: Dane at Ebookcoverlaunch
Book Description:
Menos has been destroyed. No corner of
the realm of Geadhain is safe from the Black Queen’s hunger. Zionae—or the
Great Dreamer, as she has been called in ancient tongues—has a thirst that
cannot be quenched until all of Geadhain burns and bleeds. She preys on the
minds of weak men and exploits human folly for an unhuman end. She cannot be
defeated in her current state, but the answer to her downfall may lie in the
land of her past.
It is with this aim that a Daughter of
Fate, Morigan, and her brave and true companions venture to the mysterious
Pandemonia, the land of chaos itself. Ancient secrets and even older power lurk
in its swamps and deserts. Life itself becomes uncertain, but the Hunters of
Fate have no choice: Pandemonia must give up its secrets if they want to find
the Black Queen’s weakness.
Elsewhere in the realm, alliances form
and break. Dead men rise and heroes fall. Eod prepares for war. In hiding,
Lila, the bearer of its destruction, will be given a chance to atone and answer
for her sins. Will her actions save Eod, or has she damned it with her crimes?
Heathsholme was
quaint—Central Geadhain’s darling, as the locals proclaimed. Looking down upon
it, passengers on skycarriages were often struck by the fact that the realm
possessed the look of a joyfully made quilt. Red-leafed orchards, yellow fields
of flax and corn, patches of blue brocade that were swimming pools and watering
holes…all threaded with brown branching roads. Sweet winds blew down from the
North year-round, bearing only cool and refreshing properties until winter rose
to claim the throne of seasons. When the North wind came, it froze
Heathsholme’s pools into skating circles and decorated the large trees with
grand chandeliers of ice. In the depths of that season, the staunch apple trees
finally died. Their fruits fell to the ground and were collected. Their
blossoms broke from their branches and filled the air like flocks of migrating
winter birds. During this season, families came from the West, South, and East
to visit Heathsholme and enjoy great outdoor festivals of food, music, mulled
cider, and wine—for which the region was also famed.
Partly on account of the
season’s coolness, these celebrations happened around great bonfires. At night,
when the happily drunk howled at the moon, a primal spirit took hold, and
effigies of nameless spirits were burned in the pyres. No one could remember
why or how the Vallistheim tradition had been born, only that it was a remnant
of the customs once imposed by Taroch. The ancient warlord had been fascinated
by the Northmen’s rites, and had introduced many of them to Central Geadhain.
Vallistheim—the winter festival—was believed to bring bounty and luck in the
New Year. Over time, polite society had done away with many of the less
pleasant sacrificial details to make the ritual friendlier to outsiders. Now
only one cow from each of the barns and byres that rose on rings in the hilled
highlands around the heart of the township was cooked in a great feast, without
having been ritually slaughtered first.
In the uncultivated
grasses past the city proper and its farmlands, a dedicated explorer could find
the remains of crumbled churches that had been built to honor the now vanished
religion of Taroch’s fancies. Runes that the sages had translated into such
names as Freyallah, Odric, and Helhayr were found chiseled in the mossy arches
of these grounds. These sites of an ancient religion were thought by modern
minds to be haunted or perhaps protected by the ancient spirits or warriors
mentioned in the stones. It was the sort of refuge where a monster, fearful of
being seen, could find sanctuary.
Bestselling author of the critically
acclaimed Feast of Fates, Christian A. Brown received a Kirkus star in 2014 for
the first novel in his genre-changing Four Feasts Till Darkness series. He has
appeared on Newstalk 1010, AM640, Daytime Rogers, and Get Bold Today with
LeGrande Green. He actively writes a blog about his mother’s journey with
cancer and on gender issues in the media. A lover of the weird and wonderful,
Brown considers himself an eccentric with a talent for cat-whispering.
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