From Publishers Weekly
With oughta-be-in-pictures imagery and dialogue designed for laugh tracks, Wright relentlessly riffs off every fantasy and action-movie cliché in this boisterous agglutination of modernized myths, the sequel to
The Last Guardian of Everness (2004). The cast of thousands includes Pendrake, a dethroned media mogul who carries an unbelievable array of espionage equipment to accompany his magic sword; his daughter, Wendy, who rarely stops giggling and pouting long enough to use her considerable magical powers; her husband, Raven, who controls the weather with the Ring of the Niflungar; and their allies Lemuel, Peter and Galen Waylock, three generations of guardians of the gate between the physical world and the realm of dreams. Together they battle talking seals disguised as Congressmen, physical manifestations of War and Fate, and the bumbling mage Azrael de Grey, who claims he meant well when he invoked Morningstar, the dark god who can only be defeated if Lemuel blows the horn that destroys the world. Wright follows in the footsteps of Neil Gaiman and Tim Powers with his own distinctive style and ideas. Characters are often flattened for the sake of a joke, and it's sometimes hard to tell what's parody and what's just overblown, but a little forgiveness and disbelief-suspending make this a highly enjoyable ride.
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Review
“Drawing on Arthurian legend and more, Wright’s novel is a creative and imaginative re-envisioning with political undertones of the theme of the battle between the forces of the Dark and the Light, in which the victory of the latter promises a new world for humankind but not necessarily freedom. An interesting band of protagonists works to protect the House of Everness—the mysterious “Raven, the son of Raven,” his fairy wife Wendy, and Peter, Galen’s wounded war-veteran father. Paragraphs teeming with imagery, fantastical place names and personages, including Prometheus, the Reaper, and the fallen Morningstar; plus ghost ships and treacherous selkies. . . .exciting.” --
VOYA on
Mists of Everness
“Boisterous Agglutination of modernized myths. . . .Wright follows in the footsteps of Neil Gaiman and Tim Powers with his own distinctive style and ideas. . . .a highly enjoyable ride.”
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Publishers Weekly on
Mists of Everness“
Mists of Everness rips along at the same manic pace as the first half, veering between high-toned mysticism and farce, lashings of derring-do and moments of hilarious absurdity. . . .Wright gives us adults permission to sit back and let that inner child behave badly and bravely by turns, while speaking in tongues and remembering forgotten mythologies.” –
Locus
"The second volume of Wright’s War of the Dreaming series dives headlong into the action that ended the first, making for a confusing start for the new reader. There’s plenty of backstory, however, to catch one up, and the story is well plotted and intriguing. Wright blends our everyday world with the dark world of nightmares. He manages to pull off a scary and inventive version of the fantasy cliché about the magic worlds in cellars and behind closet doors.”
–Romantic Times Bookclub
"Wright follows in the footsteps of Neil Gaiman and Tim Powers with his own distinctive style and ideas." (
Publishers Weekly )
"Wright gives us adults permission to sit back and let that inner child behave badly and bravely by turns." (
Locus )
"He manages to pull off a scary and inventive version. . .about the magic worlds in cellars and behind closet doors." (
Romantic Times Bookclub )
"Creative and imaginative." (
VOYA )
