Hidden Treasures: Los Nefilim by T. Frohock
A.F.E. Smith
Part of a series that reviews small press and digital first fantasy works. “Time stood still and soft, like the moments embedded in midnight’s silence.” Frohock’s trilogy of Los Nefilim…
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