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Don’t insult a goddess in her own temple – gonna have a bad time

The Beast of Blackmoor by Milla Vane

December 30, 2020 by Malin 2 Comments

Mala, sent on a quest by the goddess Vela, comes to Blackmoor to locate and tam the legendary Beast. She initially believes the beast to be a demonically possessed mammoth that plagues the area and is surprised when she instead discovers that it is the warrior Tavik, who she first met protecting a caravan of refugees from blood-thirsty revenants. Tavik is pretty much a broken man, who once foolishly defiled a temple of Vela and now believes that everything that happened since then is divine […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, History, Romance Tagged With: A Gathering of Dragons, barbarians, cbr12, demons, gods, historical fiction, Malin, Milla Vane, novella, paranormal romance, pre-historic, The Beast of Blackmoor

Malin's CBR12 Review No:96 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, History, Romance · Tags: A Gathering of Dragons, barbarians, cbr12, demons, gods, historical fiction, Malin, Milla Vane, novella, paranormal romance, pre-historic, The Beast of Blackmoor ·
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Little Dragon

The Beast of Blackmoor by Milla Vane

July 17, 2020 by Emmalita Leave a Comment

The Beast of Blackmore is a quick bite of the Barbarian world Milla Vane is building in her A Gathering of Dragons series. I grew up on barbarians. Frank Frazetta’s fantasy barbarian art graced the walls of a surprising number of hippie owned shops and restaurants, and then came the Barbarian movies of the 1980s – Conan the Barbarian, The Beastmaster, Red Sonja, and a whole bunch of others that I watched many many times on HBO when I should have been doing my homework. […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: A Gathering of Dragons, barbarian romance, Milla Vane, novella, The Beast of Blackmoor

Emmalita's CBR12 Review No:58 · Genres: Romance · Tags: A Gathering of Dragons, barbarian romance, Milla Vane, novella, The Beast of Blackmoor ·
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