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A Plague of Monsters and maybe Magic

The Monster of Elendhaven by Jennifer Giebrecht

November 23, 2021 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I have to honest and admit that I did not read this  thoroughly, more like slow skimmed. The Monster of Elendhaven was described as “dark”, “humorous”, “rotten with magic”; these descriptors match some things I’ve read and enjoyed. This novella is most definitely more the ‘dark’, as in horror. The setting is Elendhaven, somewhere around the North Pole, where some sort of seriously nasty plague caused by a magic eruption of some sort that either kills people or essentially mutates the survivors. Being a sorcerer […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Horror, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: #plague, horror, jennifer giebrecht, magic, The Monster of Elendhaven

CoffeeShopReader's CBR13 Review No:95 · Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Speculative Fiction · Tags: #plague, horror, jennifer giebrecht, magic, The Monster of Elendhaven ·
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