The wickedest man in Africa has problems, and they can't all be solved by magic.
Occult bookshop owner and black arts magician James Edward Guil...
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Oct 10, 2011
Tony-Paul
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This is a great book! Forget my prejudice this time. It’s almost stream-of-consciousness presentation is probably the only proper way to view the world Jamie sees. As for Jamie himself…in spite of the title tacked on him by the DPSO, which appears undeserved, he’s a likable chap. He tried to warn his friends of danger; he’s up-front about his beliefs and doesn’t try to hide how he feels. When a henchman is captured, he does everything he can to prevent the man’s death, only to lose him to a
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Jan 18, 2010
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Khepera Rising is the debut novel of South African travel writer, Nerine Dorman. When she’s not fighting off baboons with a mop, or working to tight deadlines at her day job, Nerine moonlights as an author of dark and gothic fantasy.
Khepera Rising plunders the black heart of the gothic underground movement in Cape Town, illustrating deep research and knowledge of the dark path with scary detail. Her descriptions of Cape Town are both lucid and meticulous and would fit well in an alternati More...
Khepera Rising plunders the black heart of the gothic underground movement in Cape Town, illustrating deep research and knowledge of the dark path with scary detail. Her descriptions of Cape Town are both lucid and meticulous and would fit well in an alternati More...
Dec 23, 2009
Greg
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An incendiary work of black magic that will leave kindergoths wide-eyed.
Occultist James Edward Guillaume enjoys living up to his reputation as South Africa's wickedest man, but in so doing, he becomes a target for those who believe his esoteric arts and alternative lifestyle are the work of the devil and should be punished.
The author displays an accomplished style that gives me confidence to follow her into the dark. The protagonist, Jamie, offers a distinctive shock-rock More...
Occultist James Edward Guillaume enjoys living up to his reputation as South Africa's wickedest man, but in so doing, he becomes a target for those who believe his esoteric arts and alternative lifestyle are the work of the devil and should be punished.
The author displays an accomplished style that gives me confidence to follow her into the dark. The protagonist, Jamie, offers a distinctive shock-rock More...
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Apr 20, 2011
Carrie
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James “Jamie” Guillaume starts out as a thirty-something man who runs an occult shop, has a proud reputation as South Africa’s “Wickedest Man”, has his pick of all the kindergoths in town at his disposal, and wears carefully applied make-up, completing his immersion in his self-constructed fantasy world. Piece-by-piece, this meticulously-maintained environment is slowly reduced, laying bare the true man beneath the veneer and positioning him against larger-than-life adversaries.
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Nov 16, 2010
Carol
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This is a somewhat gruesome novel full of black magic and exquisite descriptions of South Africa – so real I felt the sand under my feet and watched with delight as the fishing boats danced on the tide. An orgasm of description – both beautiful and macabre. Nerine Dorman sure knows how to use her words. Jamie is – and I can’t resist Nerine’s one-liner here – “the wickedest man in South Africa”. Yet underneath the satanic surface, this self-proclaimed black magician seems to be a man who doesn’t
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May 11, 2011
Aj
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For a black magician, Goth, womanizer, drug addict, bi-sexual, marginally criminal, extremely self-satisfied punk, Jamie Guillaume is a pretty good guy. You will come to care for him very quickly because under all of that gobbelty-gook he is a person worth caring about. And one tough mother. Things that happen to this kid would kill you or me. Hell a tenth of the things that happen to him in this dark and horrifying mystery would send me running into the night, screaming at the top of my lungs.
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Oct 22, 2011
Wookiesgirl
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This book is outside of my normal genre. It's one of those reads that I can't race through, not because its not interesting, but because it's a complex world and cannot be rushed through. I have a few other authors that, when I read them, it's the same.
This is an amazingly complex story. Jamie is such an interesting character. His journey is part self destruction, part salvation. I watched with wide eyes when he began, and each domino fell systematically into the other, carrying him f More...
This is an amazingly complex story. Jamie is such an interesting character. His journey is part self destruction, part salvation. I watched with wide eyes when he began, and each domino fell systematically into the other, carrying him f More...
Jul 16, 2011
Nerine Dorman has the ability to make you smell, taste, and see the world in which her book is set. She takes a brave approach with her debut novel where the protagonist is a thoroughly unlikable character. However, unlikable he is, he's incredibly *real*. You've probably met someone like him, and if you haven't, then give it a couple of years.
The story gets off to a slow start, but after that you find yourself invested, and can't but help to turn the page (or in my case click the forw More...
The story gets off to a slow start, but after that you find yourself invested, and can't but help to turn the page (or in my case click the forw More...
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Jun 10, 2010
Sonya
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The further I got in this one the more I liked it. Set in South Africa, the main character is black arts magician James Guillaume. James starts out as a thoroughly unlikable prat but as he gets more than his fair share of bad luck and trouble thrown at him - deaths, beatings, being targeted by religious fundamentalists - despite his best efforts I found myself liking him. I enjoyed the South African setting, the hypnotic scenes of magical ritual and dream sequences, and most of all getting to kn
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