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The LAND Trilogy: Titan's Song Chronicles #2
Cosmic Lovecraftian horror meets dark epic fantasy in this wickedly violent tale of forbidden magic and mythic transformation...
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A YOUNG WOMAN WITH TERRIFYING POWERS, TRAPPED IN A WORLD WHERE DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES ARE REAL ENOUGH TO TOUCH...
A MASTER OF DEMONIC MAGIC, CARRYING A GIFT FROM THE GODS ON A MISSION OF RESCUE...
AN ANCIENT EVIL OF MYTHICAL PROPORTIONS, UNLEASHING HELL AND DAMNATION ON ALL WHO STAND IN ITS WAY...
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The LAND Trilogy collects books four through six of Jacob Stanley's Titan's Song series in a single discounted volume. Readers who enjoy bizarre macabre fiction in the vein of Clive Barker's Weaveworld, and Stephen King's Dark Tower novels should find a lot to like in this intense supernatural thriller...
For Simone Copeland, everything is changing... She has a new body: stronger and faster than a normal person. And a new mind: colder and more dangerous than a normal person.
Now it seems she has another change to deal with. Something even bigger. Even more cataclysmic. .
A creature so horrifying and powerful that it defies all rational description has just taken her away from her old life, and left her to fend for herself in a place where the rational rules that govern normal reality don't seem to apply.
From what Simone can tell, this is a totally different world. An alien world, with its own strange customs. A place where dark rites are performed in the name of evil; where human sacrifice is as ordinary as breathing.
What is her place in this realm? How will she escape? How will she learn to use the rules of power in a place where power is the only thing that matters?
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A YOUNG WOMAN WITH TERRIFYING POWERS, TRAPPED IN A WORLD WHERE DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES ARE REAL ENOUGH TO TOUCH...
A MASTER OF DEMONIC MAGIC, CARRYING A GIFT FROM THE GODS ON A MISSION OF RESCUE...
AN ANCIENT EVIL OF MYTHICAL PROPORTIONS, UNLEASHING HELL AND DAMNATION ON ALL WHO STAND IN ITS WAY...
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The LAND Trilogy collects books four through six of Jacob Stanley's Titan's Song series in a single discounted volume. Readers who enjoy bizarre macabre fiction in the vein of Clive Barker's Weaveworld, and Stephen King's Dark Tower novels should find a lot to like in this intense supernatural thriller...
For Simone Copeland, everything is changing... She has a new body: stronger and faster than a normal person. And a new mind: colder and more dangerous than a normal person.
Now it seems she has another change to deal with. Something even bigger. Even more cataclysmic. .
A creature so horrifying and powerful that it defies all rational description has just taken her away from her old life, and left her to fend for herself in a place where the rational rules that govern normal reality don't seem to apply.
From what Simone can tell, this is a totally different world. An alien world, with its own strange customs. A place where dark rites are performed in the name of evil; where human sacrifice is as ordinary as breathing.
What is her place in this realm? How will she escape? How will she learn to use the rules of power in a place where power is the only thing that matters?
711 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 24, 2017
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About the author
Jacob Stanley
39 books28 followersJacob Stanley is a speculative fiction author from northeast Georgia. He developed an interest in horror and fantasy at an early age, reading everything from old pulp fiction works by Edgar Rice Burroughs and Robert E. Howard to horror epics by Stephen King and Robert McCammon. Eventually his interests branched out to include a huge number of writers from all the fantastic genres, including names as diverse as Clive Barker, Octavia Butler, C.S. Lewis, Robert Jordan, George R.R. Martin, Anne Rice, and Haruki Murakami.
In his early 20s he became obsessed with cinema and got caught up in the dream of the new indie film boom of the 90s. His first actual attempts to write fiction were all screenplays that he wrote over the next 10 years or so. During that time he watched every movie he could find, from the classic works of masters like Alfred Hitchcock and John Ford, to the strange creations of David Lynch and Luis Buñuel. His fascination with extremes eventually made him a fan of numerous cult filmmakers, including Lucio Fulci, Roger Corman, and Russ Meyer.
His books are an attempt to distill all these diverse influences from the worlds of literature and cinema into a rich soup of epic-horror-science-fantasy weirdness.
In addition to writing, he's also been a guitarist since the age of twelve. In his spare time does a lot of reading, and enjoys hanging out with his family and pets.
In his early 20s he became obsessed with cinema and got caught up in the dream of the new indie film boom of the 90s. His first actual attempts to write fiction were all screenplays that he wrote over the next 10 years or so. During that time he watched every movie he could find, from the classic works of masters like Alfred Hitchcock and John Ford, to the strange creations of David Lynch and Luis Buñuel. His fascination with extremes eventually made him a fan of numerous cult filmmakers, including Lucio Fulci, Roger Corman, and Russ Meyer.
His books are an attempt to distill all these diverse influences from the worlds of literature and cinema into a rich soup of epic-horror-science-fantasy weirdness.
In addition to writing, he's also been a guitarist since the age of twelve. In his spare time does a lot of reading, and enjoys hanging out with his family and pets.
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January 22, 2018
Wow, what a boxset!!! Totally brilliant storyline. So many twists and turns that i could have never guessed the endings. I absolutely loved reading this and would recommend it to all. Can't wait to see what else this author has written. Perfect storytelling!!
January 23, 2018
This second bundle of Titan's Song books trends more towards fantasy than horror. Simone is trapped in another world in these books. It is not a typical medieval fantasy world at all. There are cars and electricity. And there are strange ideas like roads made of fungus, and unicorns with leopard bodies. As usual the author has exotic ideas for his worldbuilding. There is as much science fiction as fantasy here. I was impressed with the world. It's a cool place to visit.
The story is also very good with some highly entertaining sequences, but there are pacing issues that kept me from giving five stars. Certain storylines are developing too slowly. Characters who should be together by now are still apart. Everyone is still doing interesting things but the pace could be improved. The new shapeshifer character also gets too much focus. He is a pretty good character but his story feels a little tacked on to me. Sometimes he seems to belong in the story but not always.
I thought the ending was great, and the next book seems poised to improve on the weaknesses in this one.
DISCLAIMER. I received a free copy of this book for review purposes. I had already read the books closer to their release date, but was given a copy of this bundle for an ARC review.
The story is also very good with some highly entertaining sequences, but there are pacing issues that kept me from giving five stars. Certain storylines are developing too slowly. Characters who should be together by now are still apart. Everyone is still doing interesting things but the pace could be improved. The new shapeshifer character also gets too much focus. He is a pretty good character but his story feels a little tacked on to me. Sometimes he seems to belong in the story but not always.
I thought the ending was great, and the next book seems poised to improve on the weaknesses in this one.
DISCLAIMER. I received a free copy of this book for review purposes. I had already read the books closer to their release date, but was given a copy of this bundle for an ARC review.
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