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Faerie Apocalypse Kindle Edition

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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.

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18 August 2018
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Jason Franks writes comics, prose and source code. His first novel, BLOODYWATERS, was short-listed for the 2012 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Novel. He is the writer of the THE SIXSMITHS graphic novels (a Ledger Awards finalist) and the comic series LEFT HAND PATH (also short-listed for an Aurealis Award), as well as numerous short stories in prose and comics. A collection of his mainstream short stories was collected in UNGENRED by Black House Comics. Franks has published work in most genres, but he is most comfortable in the darker reaches of speculative fiction, although his writing is often humorous. His protagonists are likely to be villains or anti-heroes and the Devil is a recurring figure in his work. Franks has lived in South Africa, the USA and Japan. He currently resides in Melbourne, Australia. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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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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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07GMST85F
Publisher ‏ : ‎ IFWG Publishing Australia (18 August 2018)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1723 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 248 pages

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Jason Franks writes comics, prose and source code. His first novel, Bloody Waters, was short-listed for the 2012 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Novel, and his Sixsmiths graphic novel series was a Ledger Award finalist.

Franks' second novel, Faerie Apocalypse, is out in 2018 from IFWG Publishing.

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Kate Hore

Clever and haunting

Reviewed in Australia on 2 July 2019

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This was a beautifully written, haunting book that stayed with me long after I'd finished reading. Loved it.

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‘This was the place he had sought and he felt lucky, if not blessed, to have found it.’

Reviewed in Australia on 8 June 2019

Magic may hold some answers, for those seeking something different, an escape from every day mortal existence. Magic may also help you find a lover, a family member, power or vengeance. But it is more difficult, these days, to find a way from the mortal world into the Faerie Realms. Don’t abandon hope: the Doors will open for some, if they want it badly enough.

‘Only three kinds of mortal were permitted entry into the Realms of the Faerie – lovers, poets and madmen – and he was most certainly to be counted amongst their number.’

But what will happen to the mortals who do enter the Realms of the Faerie? Will they find what they are looking for? Will they escape unscathed? Do they deserve success?

‘You can’t go home until you’ve completed your quest.’

It seems that mortals can destroy most things, but they don’t get everything their own way in the Realms of the Faerie. Humans may be cunning, but the Faerie can be malevolent. There’s plenty of violence as the two worlds clash. But there’s a point to this violence: it reinforces that mortals are neither heroic nor noble and that they do not think (nor seem to care) about the consequences of their actions.

I kept reading, wondering how it might end. I kept reading, hoping that the mortals would become self-aware. I kept reading. And by the end, the faerie apocalypse made sense.

‘We do not imagine; we are the imagined. The truth of my telling is entirely dependent upon the mortal to whom I speak it.’

I don’t read as much fantasy as I used to. When I read novels like this one, I resolve to read more. If you enjoy dark fantasy, you may also enjoy this.

Jennifer Cameron-Smith

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Devin Madson

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

Reviewed in Australia on 24 March 2018

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?

Reviewed in the United States on 4 May 2018

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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.

Reviewed in the United States on 2 July 2018

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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.

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Imaginative story-telling at its finest

Reviewed in the United States on 14 July 2019

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The seeming initial lack of a coherent plot nearly made me give up early on. I'm glad I placed faith in the writer as, though very dark in tone, this was an insanely original take on Fairyland. There was no guessing where it would go. Well worth the read.

Scamp

A dark and fantastic read.

Reviewed in the United States on 11 March 2018

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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

Reviewed in the United States on 25 February 2018

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