Unless They're Wicked

by Lee Morgan

All her life Lux has been hearing the whispers. They say that she is as fey and doomed as her brother and sister and that her mother just appeared one day in the wolf-pits, pale green and mysterious. Sometimes they even say she can talk to Them... When Lux discovers a secret so unspeakable that her father would kill to protect it she finds herself on the edge of the forest ready to find out if it's true what they say about Robin Goodfellow.

358 pages, Paperback

Published February 15, 2015

About the author

Lee Morgan lives on a communal homestead on kunanyi/Mt Wellington in nipaluna/Hobart, where he creates sanctuary for other weirdos, raises books, people, and ideas from the grave. He has had novels and non-fiction published by Moon Books, Three Hands Press, The Witches Almanac and Rebel Satori. Having survived an enormous tumour, Lee currently is busy filling the room in his skull with new brains, writing Folk Horror, and queering the world one step at a time.

Reviews

[Nightshade]

This book was not at all what I was expecting. It follows on somewhat from the events in the short story in "Sounds of Infinity" but it reads much more like a book of erotica bordering at times on male fantasy. The story would have been better without the distraction of needless sex scenes that felt contrived rather than natural.

I am well acquainted with bodice ripping type fiction from my younger years but it certainly is not to my current tastes, maybe if I had read this book when I was still in my late teens and early 20's it might have done something for me but it just felt a bit hollow, even while knowing and seeing the deeper threads.

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