Storm Wars!: An Adventure

by Jon DeCles

Riding the Eye of the Hurricane, Piswyck, Lifesaver, and Miranda return to Carsonne, only to find the country torn by civil war. The roads across the mountains remain closed, food is growing short, and the Countess has put an exorbitant price on Piswyck's head. Can the young Marquis unify his people,fight his way past abberant mythozooic monstrosities, and win against the dual armies of the corrupt tax collector Lomfroth and Kracmalnic the Mad? Read on, in this highly-humorous, action-packed and long-awaited sequel to The Particolored Unicorn.


Storm Wars' thunders along in grand, exotic, picaresque style. The reader is swept up in the wake of the ludicrously entertaining adventures of the sexy young Marquis Piswick and his sardonic particolored unicorn, Lifesaver.

'Like most classical heroes Piswick has great flair, ingenuity and level-headedness, all of which he needs in a chaotic world fraught with deadly whimsicality. It's all about fighting, morality, mad invention, satire, blue wine and silliness. And monsters of course human and otherwise.

'I've waited years for this book to come out. With a lot of modern fantasy being so drably serious, it's bliss to have a cocktail like piquant with magic, frothing with romance, spiked with a salty wit.


Paul Magrs, author of 'Never the Bride' and 'Doctor Who Sick Building'

296 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

Reviews

[Duncan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very odd book, as might be expected for a sequel 15 years in the making. The original "The Particolored Unicorn" is a wild genius ride, and this carries on some of the same spirit, but being less about a quest and more about war. Ends on even more of a cliffhanger than the first book, which is saying something. Probably only understandable and enjoyable to those who've read the first book in the series, but if you liked that, you'll probably like this.