Patrick Wade
ASIN: B018OJZ9XQ
Publisher: Cold Blood Books
Pages: 531
Sex and giants! They must do it after all, or where else do they come from? A giant and his mate try to eke out a living in a beautiful but unforgiving landscape, while contending with the diabolical efforts a colony of humans unleash in their attempts to drive them from this virgin land. Religion, the environment and human sexuality are the grist for this metaphorical mill. If sometimes you're ashamed to be human, this book can sympathize! As with `In the Hall of the Mountain King' this book is a dark fable, a nasty story with many messages woven into the fabric of a good terrifying yarn. The mold for fantasy fiction is again broken as the story takes place in an indistinct alternative world that is purposefully left as undeveloped as possible, so that the focus is upon the characters, and the story can unfold at a hair-raising pace. I doubt if you've ever read anything like it. You ...