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The Pagan Night Is Much Weirder Than It Looks, In A Very Good Way

I’m on a big book reviewing kick at Black Gate. In addition to reviewing the first volume of Tim Akers’s Hallowed War series, The Pagan Night, a few days ago, I volunteered to take a look at a trilogy being published all in one season, and another trilogy that’s winding up. So the publisher for the latter is sending me all three volumes, hoping I’ll review the whole series. It’s a bigger gamble than they think, sending me all these review copies. I don’t mince words when I’m sent a book I can’t honestly vouch for.

I can vouch for The Pagan Night, though. If Hayao Miyazake were writing Princess Mononoke as a sword and sorcery novel set in a Shinto version of Western Europe colonized by outsiders whose cosmology looks a lot like modern Wiccan duotheism, it might come out like this Tim Akers novel. Although the result doesn’t crack my personal top 3 books for the past 365 days, it’s hovering somewhere in my top 10, pending how its sequels follow through.

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