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Gatherer Of Souls
The third collection of prose and poems by awenydd Lorna Smithers, Gatherer of Souls lures the reader into the mist-veiled forests of time to meet Gwyn Ap Nudd.
Chasing the chaser into his myths, hunting with the hunter into the place from which dreams and reality are both born, Lorna leads the reader into the wet caverns below the coal mines, across the ice fields long-since melted into sea, into a time long before witch-blood and wolf-blood could ever be stolen to build Empire.
As with her other books (Enchanting the Shadowlands and The Broken Cauldron), Gatherer of Souls seems at first to be an innocuous collection of prose and poems. Part of Lorna’s particular magic (and her path as an awenydd), however, is to lull the reader into a serene sense of wonder and familiarity before moving the earth beneath their feet. Like walking through a forest shrouded in mist, her narrative voice feels safe, close, quiet, but veils from your sight until it is time the unearthly truths she wants to show you.
—Rhyd Wildermuth
Chasing the chaser into his myths, hunting with the hunter into the place from which dreams and reality are both born, Lorna leads the reader into the wet caverns below the coal mines, across the ice fields long-since melted into sea, into a time long before witch-blood and wolf-blood could ever be stolen to build Empire.
As with her other books (Enchanting the Shadowlands and The Broken Cauldron), Gatherer of Souls seems at first to be an innocuous collection of prose and poems. Part of Lorna’s particular magic (and her path as an awenydd), however, is to lull the reader into a serene sense of wonder and familiarity before moving the earth beneath their feet. Like walking through a forest shrouded in mist, her narrative voice feels safe, close, quiet, but veils from your sight until it is time the unearthly truths she wants to show you.
—Rhyd Wildermuth
116 pages, ebook
Published January 1, 2018
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February 19, 2021
If you have ever been entranced by death and its shepherds, of any pantheon and myth, then I recommend you read Gatherer of Souls. I can't really find the words to describe it, but this is one of the few books I've read that have successfully made me feel as though I was taken back through the mists of time immemorial, to ancestors of mine and everyone else who had names we cannot speak and lived in a world we cannot imagine. Lorna illustrates masterfully how Gwyn Ap Nudd has lived through many ages and lives to this day, with his host of souls.
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