Between Two Fires

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Deadpan Snarker: Thomas copes with his dark past and the sheer hopelessness of everything around him with a dry and bitter sense of gallows humor. Brooks places the epicenter of the Bigfoot war in a high-tech hideaway populated by the kind of people you might find in a Jurassic Park franchise: the schmo who doesn’t know how to do much of anything but tries anyway, the well-intentioned bleeding heart, the know-it-all intellectual who turns out to know the wrong things, the immigrant with a tough backstory and an instinct for survival.

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Fearing that her very presence puts everyone she cares about in danger, she splits off from Thomas and attempts to go to Avignon by herself. When the Host banishes them from Avignon, they respond by damning all the souls they can grab, guilty or innocent, which includes Thomas. Brooks is a pro at building suspense even if it plays out in some rather spectacularly yucky episodes, one involving a short spear that takes its name from “the sucking sound of pulling it out of the dead man’s heart and lungs.

The women are actually undead, with many measures taken to hide the coldness and decay in their bodies.

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By combining modern horror dynamics with a convincing medieval setting, Christopher Buehlman secures his status among today’s leading dark fantasy authors. Delphine's mortal aspect, meanwhile, wakes up in her dead parents' farm exactly a year after she first met Thomas with no memory of prior events. Rugged Scar: Thomas has a very noticeable one on his cheek where he took an arrow to the face at Crécy.Berserk Button: Making light of the Battle of Crécy and insulting the men who fought and died in it is a good way to earn the ire of Thomas. In Between Two Fires, his prose has become just a bit better: more supple, more evocative, and packed with dialogue so hilarious, in points, that laughing out loud has a deliciously naughty thrill to it – the story in this novel is so grim that having fun reading it feels sacrilegious. Earn Your Happy Ending: Thomas and Delphine are both brutally slain by the Princes of Hell during the climax, and Thomas actually goes to Hell where his soul is tormented for what seems like years. The novel tells an epic story in its page count, with this truly being the story of Thomas, the girl, and Matthieu the priest. Unlike most of Buehlman’s fans, I found out about his work through reading his recently published book, The Blacktongue Thief, six months ago.

Book Review: Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman

He never even bothered to ask former what her name actually was and it's never revealed to the reader until about a hundred pages in. Dellamonica also praised the novel's humorous dialogue which contrasts with the horrors of the world, as well as the novel's immersion in the "worldview and mindset of its medieval Christian characters.In a way, they’re great for character development; finding out the main character’s regret were a good choice. Even the cover rocks as this was a great reading experience from beginning to end as it was a genuine page-turner and then some! God had enforced Good; but if Good was no longer enforced or mattered, then did it mean God was gone? Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: While he was a part of Godefroy's merry band, Thomas was willing to help them rob, ransack, and murder others, but rape was the one line he refused to cross and only tolerated with great reluctance.