Haven

by J.D.G. Perldeiner

The great fires have gone out. The heavens are stalked by storm and darkness. The holdings of men are scattered, broken, disparate. The wilderness has reclaimed the land. This is the world in 198 Anno Cataclysmos, since the monks of Haven began their count. Now, in this dark and dying age, the survivors of the Burners and thrax turn upon each other. For the monks of Haven, the chiefest good is knowledge, and the written word. For the folk of Groton there can be nothing that gainsays their holy writ—including the sacred library that informs the Province of all things past.

Tiber the Novice must go with the snide Brother Berengar to seek aid from the strange cousins of Haven, the lords of Sikorsky. Westward, they must travel, along the broken high roads of the ancient ones, over the icy waters of the Low Tonic, and into the foreboding halls of Sikorsky Castle. There can be no victory without the aid of the Duke, and even with it they will match sword and shield against ancient weapons.

Meanwhile, the Dragon, long prophesied, stirs. Vera the machine-speaker travels with her scavenging tribesfolk toward Haven. The Province is poised on the brink of a new devastation...

328 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 3, 2016

About the author

Josh Perldeiner was a medievalist, a historian, and a screenwriter. He currently works as a public defender.

He posts short stories, entire novels, and a lot of other stuff over at https://www.patreon.com/katsfoter

Reviews

[J. Harding · Rating 5 out of 5]

Haven, by JDG Perldeiner, is a fun, fast read which is very imaginative in language (my Latin finally helped me out) and in setting/story. This is a post-apoc novel set in a new Dark Ages of sorts, a post-technology New England, USA, setting, where the remaining people have seen light bulbs, but never seen them lit up. The language is my favorite part of the writing; for the story itself, the author has provided an interesting array of characters. This is a bit of fantasy and a bit of post-apoc reading; I'm not typically a fan of fantasy genre fiction, but still enjoyed Haven a lot.

[Jenn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Won this book from Good Reads.

Haven is a nice look at what the future may hold. Mankind has destroyed itself and split into clans, scavengers, and monks. The wilderness has crept back into cities and taken over. These clans have our technology, but know not what they have or how to use it. Nice take on an adventure/futurist genre.

[Wendy Jamieson-price · Rating 4 out of 5]

I recieved a copy of haven via goodreads. It took a while to get into the wording of this futuristic novel but once I did I found it fast paced and a real page turner, a book I a, happy to recommend to others.