5/26/2023 0 Comments Scourge of the betrayerI’m repeatedly struck by similar thoughts in a lot of my reading adventures. End even though I’ve reread the dang scene 100 times if I’ve read it once, I still marvel at it. It’s full of juxtapositions and jagged edges and yet still builds this fascinating rhythm, powerful and almost hypnotic. There’s a scene in Blood Meridian where a veritable horde of Comanche are galloping down on the terror-stricken main characters (who, I should note, really have it coming to them), and the description goes on for days in Faulknerian fashion with nary a punctuation mark to be seen, and yet it’s as exact and precise a piece of prose as you can hope to find, brimming with exquisite details that are equal parts beautiful and horrifying. Meanwhile, I already have a wonderful treat to offer: a guest post by author Jeff Salyards about writer’s jealousy, entitled Green-Eyed Gremlin. I’ll post the entire review here soon, but for now, you can read it at Tor.com. My review of Scourge of the Betrayer by Jeff Salyards went up at Tor.com today.
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