Shane is just reaching for his nightstick when Surma, the one-armed fur-coated twin, bolts across the room and slams him into the door with a resounding BANG!īob yelps and topples over backward in his chair. ” His lips curl menacingly and he emits a shrill, clicking squeak. “And we certainly won’t be filling out any fucking forms. “But we won’t be needing any identification.” He leans close to the window, his breath forming crystalline frost on the glass. Stan.” Kleron’s smile is suddenly gone and his eyes become deathly cold. “Your dedication to the safety of the patients here is admirable–” he peers at the name on Stan’s security badge, “ Mr. Kleron inspects the security booth through the glass, drumming his fingers again, then looks at Shane, who now has his hands on his hips near his mace and nightstick, before turning back to Stan. New Adult Fiction – as opposed to Teen or YA, though savvy 16 or 17 year olds might survive without permanent damage. Paternus has been called “American Gods meets The Lord of the Rings,” and claimed to be reminiscent of Roger Zelazny’s Lord of Light as well as Clive Barker’s Weaveworld.Ĭontemporary Fantasy / Mythic-Fiction. Then a group of very strange and frightening men show up for a “visit”…įi and Zeke’s worlds are shattered as their typical everyday concerns are suddenly replaced by the immediate need to stay alive - and they try to come to grips with the unimaginable reality of the Firstborn.
And there’s her conflicted attraction to Zeke - awkward, brilliant, talented - who plays guitar for the old folks. One bright spot is caring for Peter, a dementia-ridden old man whose faraway smile can make her whole day. She doesn’t know what she wants to do with her life, misses her dead mother, wonders about the father she never knew. And the war isn’t over.ġ7 year old Fi Patterson lives with her stuffy English uncle and has an internship at a local hospital for the aged.
The epic battles between titans, giants, and gods, heaven and hell, the forces of light and darkness. In a breathtaking story that takes place in a single day, two ordinary humans are caught up in the final battle of a war that’s been waged since the dawn of time. The gods and monsters of myth have returned. Today on The Tattooed Book Geek I am pleased to be bringing to you all an extract from Paternus by Dyrk Ashton.
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