This is in some ways an accidental review-- the book was returned
to my desk when the original reviewer prepared to flee to England.
So I quickly sat down to write a cursory review of this "Game of
War, Myth and Horror".
Ooh... war, myth and horror. This might take longer than I thought...
after all, I like this sort of thing, and it may bear rereading!
It's a sort-of sequel
for "Witchcraft", or, as they suggest, one possible future for
Witchcraft. The Reckoning has finally arrived, the forces of good
and light vie with the darkness, magic abounds, etc etc. Forgive
me if I seem jaded, but the premise has been done a bit much in the
past few years. However, this one nicely straddles the realistic
without going too geeky on us.
Stylistically, lots of art, much of it good, lots of fiction (again,
some of it good), then... yea gods! The ugliest font in the middle
of the book! Okay, wait, I'm better now, it's just that the
Cosmologies sectioned looked like a browser stuck on "h3" mode.
Anyway, for the reasons given above, I'll be brief. This is a fun
book, and the setting is very cool. If you're comparing it against
the other post-apocalypse/war of Heaven and Earth books (as you
should), it comes out very nicely. Oddly enough, it's more down
to earth and realistic than most, and the magic fits in a rather
suspiciously insidious fashion, almost as if it really were all
true. The setting is lots of fun, with much play room for the
characters to romp around in. More specific adventure seeds would
have been appreciated for unoriginal types like myself, since I'm
a bit at a loss where to go next. But hey, it's after the end
of the world, we'll wing it.
Style: 4 (Classy and well done)
Substance: 4 (Meaty)
