Urban fantasy and legend meet the post apocalyptic in BLACK
FEATHERS created from the wickedly dark imagination of author Joseph D’Lacey.
This new world takes all that it’s been given; decimating the populace and
crumbling the society that has so scarred its land for as long as time can
remember. Now, rivers overflow, volcanoes spill hot lava, the very crust of
Earth splits and soil is borne anew. BLACK FEATHERS leads to a cleansing of the
planet where savours are few and survivalists are the government made of single
mindedness determination with a ‘control at all cost’ mantra.
For Gordon Black, a young boy blessed and cursed to follow
the path of the Crowman, this new world takes everything from him while
subjecting him to daily torment at the hands of the Ward and the ills of
mankind in general. Gordon knows he’s special, his parents told him so all his
life until the moment they were taken away for hoarding food and supplies
during a time when rationing and natural disasters ran rife. Now on the path
alone he looks deep within to discover what the Crowman is, and how he can influence
the second coming of man.
The other side of the equation is Megan – a young woman set
to become a Keeper; the person responsible for documenting and remembering the
Crowman’s path and plight. Throughout BLACK FEATHERS she endures other worldly experiences
and follows a distinctly similar path to that of Gordon, only, in Megan’s eye,
past, future, and present blend into one. It’s a disturbing and slightly disorienting
side to BLACK FEATHERS but makes the book that much more enjoyable.
The thing that impressed me the most about this book is the
non conformity with the post apocalyptic genre in general – D’Lacey blends
elements of the fantastical with almost spiritualistic remedies to provide a
sense of hope to his characters that otherwise wouldn’t have had such a
purpose.
Needless to say, book #2, THE BOOK OF THE CROWMAN has jumped
near the top of my TBR.
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