Book Review: Ten Thousand Devils, by S.A. Hunt

TL;DR: DAMN THIS BOOK IS GOOD. I’ve blogged about S.A. Hunt’s exceptional Outlaw King series before, so I’ll do my best not to waffle. In short, I was recommended aaaaages ago by a friend to read his debut novel The Whirlwind in the Thorn Tree, but put it off for over a year. By the time I got around to it, book 2 in the series was already out and book 3 was on the way, which meant I was perfectly primed to dive into what I soon discovered was one of the deepest, darkest, most delicious not-quite-fantasy series on the market. It started as a Dark Tower inspired epic, but has already developed into so much more. A trio of regular folk – Ross Brigham, a veteran just returned from deployment, and two fans of Ross’s father’s epic fantasy series The Fiddler and the Fire, are thrown into the world of Destin, the same world that Ross’s deceased father used as the inspiration for Fiddler. Destin is a bit of a weird-west sort of place. There are gunslingers roaming the desert and locomotives whizzing over the plains, but there are also colossal sea serpents and maybe-monsters wearing robotic animal masks and LSD trips and demon dimensions accessible only through the subconscious and a looming evil and sweet shootouts and mecha-punchups and DAMN, this series goes some crazy places. By halfway through the second novel – and increasingly throughout the third – Hunt expands his world, his characters and his […]