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Faerie Apocalypse Kindle Edition

by Jason Franks (Author)

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Over the centuries the Faerie Realms have drifted away from the mortal world. But for some, the Doors will open. For some, there is a Way to travel there, if they want it badly enough.

If they dream it hard enough.

In this era, only lovers, poets, and madmen can access the Realms of the Land—and for good reason.

A succession of mortals travel to Faerie: a veteran seeking beauty; a magus seeking power; an urchin seeking his wayward father; an engineer seeking meaning. These mortals bring the horrors of our age to the Land, and the Folk who live there respond in kind.

Length: 248 pages	Word Wise: Enabled	Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
Page Flip: Enabled	Language: English

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"In this beautifully imagined novel, Franks tells a story viscerally graphic, emotionally moving and very, very sharp."
— Kaaron Warren

"Franks has delivered a dark fantastical history of staggering imagination, written like a fable, delivered like a punch. Powerful and engrossing stuff."
— Alan Baxter

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Format: Kindle Edition
File Size: 1723 KB
Print Length: 248 pages
Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
Publisher: IFWG Publishing Australia (18 August 2018)
Sold by: Amazon Australia Services, Inc.
Language: English
ASIN: B07GMST85F
Text-to-Speech: Enabled

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Screen Reader: Supported

Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled

Average Customer Review: 1 customer review
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #381,766 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
- #3060 in Dark Fantasy Horror (Kindle Store)
- #3934 in Dark Fantasy

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Devin Madson

There is NOTHING else quite like this out there...

24 March 2018

Format: Print on Demand (Paperback)

It's taken me more than a month to get over reading this enough to actually write a review of it and still I find myself lost for words. Never have I read anything even remotely like this book. It is lush and evocative, both in its beauty and its brutality, and somehow managed to be both a quick, entertaining read and something so deep it deconstructed not only my childhood fairy tales but the human psyche.

I wish I could pen an essay on why it is an amazing read and why everyone needs to experience this book, but all I am really left with the ability to say is: Jason Franks, you had me at "The magus racked the Uzi."

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John dEFROG

Are you ready to rip it up? Are you ready to tear it down?

4 May 2018 - Published on Amazon.com

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I’ll be honest – I’ve never been a fan of the faerie genre as a whole, although there are a few exceptions (Neil Gaiman and Charles de Lint come to mind). And I might not have tried this, except that (1) Franks’ first novel Bloody Waters was so good, and (2) this ain’t yr average fairy story. In fact, as the title implies, the whole point of the book is to set up the usual tropes of faerie fiction – the quests, the royalty, the magi, the tricksters, the endless walking, and mortal humans finding themselves in this magical alt-reality – and take an Uzi to them. Literally, in at least one case. It’s not a parody so much as an excuse to break every genre rule there is just to see what happens.

The story follows four different mortals (most of them unnamed) who enter the Lands Of The Realm for various reasons, and wreak havoc upon it, intentionally or otherwise. I won’t say any more because part of the appeal here is seeing where Franks goes with this – and it’s not where you might think. The chief criticism I have is the lack of a sympathetic main character – not a hero, which would defeat the purpose of the story, but someone who could at least offset the senselessly destructive nature of everyone else. The faerie playwright Nentril Revallo is the most likeable character here for my money, and while he plays a key role in the story, he’s still a minor character. Overall it’s rather bleak and nihilistic for my taste … and yet it has to be for the story to work, and I do appreciate what Franks is ultimately shooting for here. So if yr interested in seeing someone take a chainsaw to the whole faerie-fiction paradigm, this may be just the thing.

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Pete Aldin

Clever, witty, brutal.

2 July 2018 - Published on Amazon.com

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Mr Franks’s genius shines strong here in three ways: genuinely funny narrative and dialogue; polished prose; inventive plotting. He has laboured hard to create a non-Hollywood plot that still enthralls and pays off. In fact, the story is self-aware enough that a character remarks, “Sometimes I just get sick of hearing the same damn stories, over and over again.” Well, this isn’t the same damn story by any means.

Five stars.

Scamp

A dark and fantastic read.

11 March 2018 - Published on Amazon.com

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A book so dark and troubling (and I absolutely mean that as a compliment) it’s taken me a fortnight to get around to this review.

A superb critique of the madness of desire, the impacts of personal quests and the nature of faerie. A strong thread of black humour and strong action throughout also helps propel this finely written story forward.

Franks also does a great job of twisting and subverting troupes, while simultaneously showing that he also has his own story to tell.

I wouldn’t say I “enjoyed” this sharp and black book – but it will stay with me for a very long time and I highly recommend it.

You should read it.

George Wilson III

A great dark faerie tale

25 February 2018 - Published on Amazon.com

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A story with several great tales that build on each other. Dark twists and turns keep you turning the page.

Narrelle

A gruesome apocalypse with a purpose.

22 January 2018 - Published on Amazon.com

Have you ever wondered what's going on in the mind of people who set about pursuing quests in the worlds of magic? Potential lovers seeking the fairest of them all; mages seeking further power; sons seeking fathers; daughters seeking vengeance; those seeking simple distraction and escape from their everyday lives.

Jason Franks has. And he doesn't think very highly of them.

Faerie Apocalypse plays with the tropes of quests and fantasy violence. He twists the old storytelling standards of cycles-of-three, cunning humans outwitting faerie malevolance, all the same-old-same olds.

Franks isn't afraid of being pretty damned gruesome with it, either. Many encounters end not merely with violence but with gore so extreme it's less horrific and more a form of nihilism. If Shakespeare wrote Titus Andronicus in a spirit of 'I'll show YOU a revenge tragedy!', Franks has said, 'I'll show YOU a tide of pointless butchery!'.

Except that it's not pointless. The purpose, mostly hinted at throughout the brutal excapades of the mortals, the mage, the daughter of the warrior queen and the Bad Little Dog is very pointed, but it's a spoiler to say what it is.

I loved how the inklings that supposed mortal questers aren't as noble or heroic as they're cracked up to be turn into certainties that they're all pretty awful people with little regard for the consequences of their actions. Where they go, death follows, on a scale that humans in the mortal world have wrought with such horrific abandon.

The level of butchery is a bit much at times, but it's a deliberate choice that is less gratuitous than it seems, by the time you reach the end and learn why. Though the hint is in the title. It is a faerie apocalypse, after all.

I'll admit that I have a fonder spot in my heart for the wild and wickedly funny Bloody Waters , but it's good to be reading Franks again and I'm looking forward to whatever comes next.

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