Between two fires
by Christopher Buehlman · first published 2012
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And Lucifer said: “Let us rise against Him now in all our numbers, and pull the walls of heaven down…” The year is 1348. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village. An orphan of the Black Death, and an almost unnerving picture of innocence, she tells Thomas that plague is only part of a larger cataclysm—that the fallen angels under Lucifer are rising in a second war on heaven, and that the world of men has fallen behind the lines of conflict. Is it delirium or is it faith? She believes she has seen the angels of God. She believes the righteous de
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…news fixation to anyone who will listen to me. A few of my favorite reads so far this year: - The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Stephen Graham Jones - Angel Down, Daniel Kraus - Piranesi, Susanna Clarke - Between Two Fires, Christopher Buehlman - The Everlasting, Alix E. Harrow - The Prince of Tides, Pat Conroy - Nettle & Bone, T. Kingfisher - The Tainted Cup, Robert Jackson Bennett - The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead
on “Ask HN: What are you reading?” ↗…from completely different story genetics (non-Tolkien). Priory is more traditional but good fun. Not on this list that I thought were particularly excellent, [goodreads rating in brackets]: [4.26] Between Two Fires by Christopher Buhuelman https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13543121-between-two-fir... Horror-Fantasy. Absolutely loved this book, a travelogue through France in the grip of the Black Plague...inflicted…
on “Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books of the 21st Century (So Far)” ↗"Between Two Fires" is so good, I think about it a lot. From the same author (although, in a very different vein) I really enjoyed The Blacktongue Thief.
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