Review: Of all that is unholy, you have met your match
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 16, 2014
For his sixth outing in the Lost Civilization series, author Vaughn Heppner delves deeper into the history of Lod, who leads the battle against evil of the world. "Lod the Warrior" tells several tales of the semi madman who gets into one scrape after another because he just can't stand injustice. He hates evil and takes it on no matter what the personal cost. Each story is a great standalone and really reminds me of the shorter pulp era sword and sorcery stories I read as a kid from Robert E. Howard and Gardener F. Fox. It also brings up fond memories of Elric of Melnibone, a very trippy series by Michael Moorcock. Heppner is that good. He sure can crank out the tales though. I've become a little obsessed with his work of late. This is the third or fourth series of his in which I've lost myself. People in the newspaper business used to ask which book by whatever investigative journalist I had read. I picked up one occasionally but not at the rate I was supposed to, apparently. I read this genre. It's way better. Although Matt Taibbi's "The Divide" is pretty close to this. Same kind of villain.