Review: Brutally Hopeless World With Danger Lurking Everywhere
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 10, 2013
Author Luke Walker has created a brutally hopeless world set in a Lovecraft inspired landscape.  Three massive Gods named Segoth, Naz Yaah, and Gatur are sacrificing humans by the thousands while our desperate protagonist tries to locate his daughter, who may or may not hold a key to mankind's salvation.There is more action and suspense in this novella than in most novels.  Walker does a superb job of describing the action and feeding the reader with enough morsels of information to hook us into one chapter after the next.  Just when you thought the characters could not possibly be in any more danger, it gets even worse for them.I really enjoyed reading this and hope Luke Walker tries his hand with this type of material again, only in novel form.  It is clear he has a very fertile imagination and a lot more to tell.  My only gripe is near the end, with a questionable decision by a peripheral character whose motivation bugged me.  That aside, fans of dark horror, Lovecraft, and games such as Arkham Horror and Mansions of Madness will be in for a huge treat.