Book Review: The Midnight Land Part 1

Book 1 of theZemnian Trilogy By E.P. Clark

This is a very original and refreshing piece of work. If pushed, I would declare it as somewhere between Tolstoy, Tolkien and CS Lewis. Make of that what you will! I don’t think this is something I would naturally gravitate towards, but I’m glad I have read it. It’s good.

To set the scene, what we have is a fantasy world which very closely resembles Russia. I’m going to say it is medieval Russia from the environment, but that’s really rather irreleva...