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The Man Who Died Twice
It has been two years since Mother called down the blue storm. Two years since she tried to rip the city apart in her quest for neverending power.
Time has moved on. The city has started to rebuild. Wounds have healed. For people such as Satara, Snow and the others, time has not been so kind. For The Family, it has been unkinder still.
When members of their church start turning up dead, showing signs of torture and with the sign of Asclepius cut or branded on to their skin, they go in to hiding but who wants them dead?
Could it be that their past, full of oppression and worship, is coming back to collect the debts that they owe?
Time has moved on. The city has started to rebuild. Wounds have healed. For people such as Satara, Snow and the others, time has not been so kind. For The Family, it has been unkinder still.
When members of their church start turning up dead, showing signs of torture and with the sign of Asclepius cut or branded on to their skin, they go in to hiding but who wants them dead?
Could it be that their past, full of oppression and worship, is coming back to collect the debts that they owe?
412 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 11, 2020
7 people want to read
About the author
Patrick Scattergood
11 books18 followersLeicester based, award-nominated nonbinary/pansexual author of 'gay shit with magic' that people appear to enjoy reading.
Creator of the award-nominated dark, urban fantasy series Mother, Dearest.
Co-Writer, with Golda Evans, of the science fiction adventure Time to Burn.
Creator of the award-nominated dark, urban fantasy series Mother, Dearest.
Co-Writer, with Golda Evans, of the science fiction adventure Time to Burn.
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June 21, 2023
Bravo to Patrick Scattergood for writing a second part of a trilogy that was not just a boring stop-gap between the beginning and end! It was very refreshing to read a book 2 that lived up to the original.
That said, the tone of this one felt different to me. Not in a bad way but in an Alien vs. Aliens way. The first book was dark, raw, and painful in places (due to Scattergood's excellent writing) where as this one kept many of the dark elements but was less introspective with more outward action, for lack of a better word - less foreboding darkness and more "Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
In this case, the nuke takes the form of a forgotten god. Taking the opportunity a weakened Mother (of title fame) allows to enact revenge on the family that has wronged him. Fire, death, and destruction comes for those left without Mother's protection and perhaps for Mother herself.
Other gods also seize the opportunity to interfere and the cast of Snow, Satara, Jim, Webber, and the rest are left to try to survive and pick up the pieces after the events of book one. Meanwhile, Naz, the protagonist of this whole terrible affair, is stuck in a sort of limbo, a world between worlds, trying with the help of his cursed father to make sense of all that has occurred.
Definitely check this one out!
That said, the tone of this one felt different to me. Not in a bad way but in an Alien vs. Aliens way. The first book was dark, raw, and painful in places (due to Scattergood's excellent writing) where as this one kept many of the dark elements but was less introspective with more outward action, for lack of a better word - less foreboding darkness and more "Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
In this case, the nuke takes the form of a forgotten god. Taking the opportunity a weakened Mother (of title fame) allows to enact revenge on the family that has wronged him. Fire, death, and destruction comes for those left without Mother's protection and perhaps for Mother herself.
Other gods also seize the opportunity to interfere and the cast of Snow, Satara, Jim, Webber, and the rest are left to try to survive and pick up the pieces after the events of book one. Meanwhile, Naz, the protagonist of this whole terrible affair, is stuck in a sort of limbo, a world between worlds, trying with the help of his cursed father to make sense of all that has occurred.
Definitely check this one out!
May 22, 2021
Excellent follow-up to the brilliant book Mother Dearest.
Sequels are always tough IMO. They either work, or they fail. This one very much works.
It's thrilling and exciting and now I'm keeping my fingers crossed for a third book. I love the world and creations, it feels very alive when you read. Real depth and texture and inclusive of all kinds of people.
Sequels are always tough IMO. They either work, or they fail. This one very much works.
It's thrilling and exciting and now I'm keeping my fingers crossed for a third book. I love the world and creations, it feels very alive when you read. Real depth and texture and inclusive of all kinds of people.
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