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El valor de Valhalla
bajo el velo
11 DE OCTUBRE DE 2021
En una batalla entre dos males antiguos, ¿puede un joven ingenuo convertirse en la última esperanza contra poderosas criaturas legendarias?
David Dolan cree que ya tiene el mundo resuelto. Pero cuando un puente derrumbado lo sumerge en el helado Hudson, se sumerge profundamente en el reino mortal que existe entre la vida y la muerte. Y con su forma terrenal atrapada en coma, es vulnerable a la horda de demonios empeñados en su destrucción total.
Atravesando el camino hacia el más allá, David busca la sabiduría y las habilidades que necesita para luchar contra las fuerzas demoníacas que causan estragos en sus aliados en la superficie. Pero a medida que una amenaza infernal se acerca a su cuerpo indefenso, David debe derrotar a otro demonio aterrador que espera en las sombras para usarlo...
¿Puede David escapar del mundo bajo el velo a tiempo para detener el derramamiento de sangre?
Beneath the Veil es el apasionante primer libro de la serie de fantasía urbana oscura The Valor of Valhalla. Si te gustan los héroes reacios, los mitos infernales y los enfrentamientos épicos sangrientos, te encantará la formidable incursión de Martin Kearns hacia lo desconocido.
David reached the desert and his fate awaited him.
Months after the loss of Rose, David finds himself traveling through the Middle East to find the one he holds ultimately responsible for her death. But stumbling upon a dark tycoon with the same agenda sends David on a path he’d never thought possible. One of revelation and reclamation.
Navigating a gauntlet of the supernatural has taken a toll on Chelsea and Dodd. The children of Lilith are no longer plaguing their world, but another vile creation awaits them in the shadows. A perversion of the celestial and the terrestrial and one that aims to crush them if they venture too close.
The second chapter of David’s journey reveals a reality without illusion. Will he cope and overcome his true adversary or be consumed by his own need for vengeance?
The Sands of Akhirah is the captivating second book in The Valor of Valhalla dark urban fantasy series. If you like reluctant heroes, infernal myths, and bloody epic clashes, then you’ll love Martin Kearns’s formidable foray into the unknown.
"Kearn’s world continues to evolve in a dark, exhilarating story of heroes and heroines with heart-stopping twists from the first chapter.
Bring on book 3!"
Sci-fi Review
The Strange wraps readers in a quilt of the wild west, science fiction’s greatest beats, and a vivid concept draped over an old frontier.
Ballingrud’s first dip into the deeper waters of novel writing evolved as a love letter to Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, and Frank Herbert, as the author whimsically states in his afterword. His intention is well-undertaken, given the ghosts of each resonate through the tale.
Annabelle Crisp, the feisty young protagonist, begins her journey within the Martian settlement of New Galveston—a waylay of respite on an untamed landscape. Belle’s journey takes us through wastelands (think Bradbury), encounters with ghostly alien sentience (think Herbert), battles with machines of war gone rogue (think Asimov), and, perhaps most unsettling, revelations each child must grapple with as they come of age—namely the one where they discover the adults are not all knowing sages they’d been masquerading as.
This final motif may be the one that resonates the most with readers as it’s one we’ve all endured, but the callbacks to those giants on whose shoulders Ballingrud has chosen to stand is as refreshing a breeze of nostalgia fans could hope for. One such aspect is the tertiary idea of the planetary intelligence that couples itself with the title of the novel—The Strange. An idea as mysterious to the reader as The Silence that bears with it the idea of the demise of humanity back on Earth. Both are concepts the author encourages the readers to understand in their own subjective ways, a choice I find encouraging as I read more and more novels with far too much hand holding.
Written with genuine prose devoid of the weighted words and phrases often seen with less seasoned authors, The Strange gently draws readers through its pages. A story steeped in lamentation that somehow manages to feel refreshing in its nuance while also leaving us hungering for more—though, as with many aspects of this tale, whether we will receive more also remains a mystery—The Strange is a refreshing take on the darker side of science fiction that does not encumber readers with overly detailed explanations of how life on Mars is possible, but how endless adventure awaits us there.
5 Stars