Acknud
1/24/2024
The first book was excellent and a great example of apocalyptic fantasy. This was supposed to be a trilogy but the last book never got written. This 2nd volume is thus somewhat of a cliffhanger, obviously leaving the story unfinished.
Per Hiero Desteen is a priest, exorcist, killman from what used to be Canada. This volume chronicles his journey south and to the east followed by a return to the North. He is separated from his bride who is a princess of the land called Dalwah. Basically, this is a story of the battle between good and evil. Evil is embodied by the human "unclean" and their animal servants called leemutes. This all takes place 5000 years after The Death (atomic war). Radiation has mutated much life and returned humanity to a time near to the medieval period of our past.
The first volume gave you more of a taste of the strangeness of radiation mutation while this story focuses on the political/military struggle of the future.