If you’re a fantasy fan and user of social media you’ve no doubt stumbled across one of Twitter’s loudest, most outspoken and damned right funny SFF personalities, Sam Sykes.
Well, following Sam is free, so I’m sure you’re doing that already, but… if you’re not do it… and thank me later (unless you’re easy offended in which case, probably don’t do it…); however, the reason for this blog post is that if you’ve not yet read anything by Sam, now is the perfect time.
Fantasy-Faction has just spotted on Amazon that Sam’s first book, Tome of the Undergates has dropped right down to £1.49.
Lenk can barely keep control of his mismatched adventurer band at the best of times (Gariath the dragon man sees humans as little more than prey, Kataria the Shict despises most humans, and the humans in the band are little better). When they’re not insulting each other’s religions they’re arguing about pay and conditions.
So when the ship they are travelling on is attacked by pirates things don’t go very well. They go a whole lot worse when an invincible demon joins the fray. The demon steals the Tome of the Undergates – a manuscript that contains all you need to open the undergates. And whichever god you believe in you don’t want the undergates open. On the other side are countless more invincible demons, the manifestation of all the evil of the gods, and they want out.
Full of razor-sharp wit, characters who leap off the page (and into trouble) and plunging the reader into a vivid world of adventure this is a fantasy that kicks off a series that could dominate the second decade of the century.
Sam is just about to release a new series and, having read the first book from it, I have to say that his writing is continuing to improve in just about every aspect. As much as you will enjoy Tomes, you will find that you will be greatly rewarded if you stick with the series – as each book gets better and better.
You can find more about Sam and his writing habits in this interview with him.
Jennie Ivins