Nights of Villjamur
Author – Mark Charan Newton
Hardcover
Pages: 400
Publisher: Tor (UK)
Release Date: June 5, 2009
ISBN-10: 0230712584
ISBN-13: 978-0230712584
Mark Charan Newton wears his influences on his sleeve, boldly name-dropping the likes of M. John Harrison, China Miéville and Gene Wolfe as driving forces behind his first novel, Nights of Villjamur. But where does that leave me, a self-professed anti-snob – a fan of Terry Brooks and John Scalzi, shy of those more literary works of fantasy, even downright terrified (if forced to be honest)? This was a question I asked myself as I cracked open Newton’s first novel, and I’ll admit I was afraid of the answer.
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