Demon in the Mirror in Sword & Sorcery: "An earthier sort of fantasy"

Apr 27, 2020 Clint rated it it was ok

Shelves: 2020, fantasy, sword-sorcery, dead-trees

Oh dear God, I just realized there are two more books in this series?! Nope.

+ 1 Star for having a cover with a chick wearing a brass bikini, but damn, talk about saddle soar, ouch!

+1 Star for vampiric nuns that worship a giant flesh eating bat.

0 stars for a plot that really defies description: so, she decides to join in on this super-obvious bad idea of a plan to maybe save her long-lost brother (whose name is Bealost—I’m not making that up); a brother she maybe saw once as a very young child, ...more

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Jun 02, 2013 Derek rated it liked it

Shelves: sword-and-sorcery, talk-backwards-cause-its-archaic

A cover that raises the question: "Horseriding in a brass bikini? Doesn't that pinch?"

Overall, it's an entertaining story, consisting of a series of episodic adventures as Tiana obtains the necessary mummified wizardly body parts for this-doesn't-sound-like-a-good-idea reasons.

But never mind logic or motivation! Or the writing that occasionally tries too hard and winds up using the words like "nigh" and "ere" in narration, or reverses the word order for...I don't know, dramatic effect or somethi ...more

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Feb 16, 2025 Riju Ganguly rated it liked it

This was a pulpy adventure. It had all sorts of sword & sorcery action, horror (vampire nuns!), shock & awe (locks changing into snakes!) crammed into close to two-hundred pages full of text printed in font size 6. Above all, it had a Red Sonja-esque character in chainmail bikini atop a horse in the cover.
Good stuff, except the tiny dense text that gave me a headache. Man, when your women are all bosomy and buxom, why be so miserly in font-size?

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