Book Review: The Snake Man's-Bane by Howie K. Bentley

 This is a compilation of short stories (novelettes) that stand on their own but overall they are all connected with some characters/places.

While one story is set in roman Britain, other is set in somekind of pseudo-norway, while other is set britain saxon time. Basically all of this stories are set in a quasis-mythical europe. One story we follow the daughter of boudiacae (The famous warrior-leader of the iceni).

Although I think this is very much like old sword and sorcery it feeds even more from Moorcock Eternal Champion since we've got this character that possesses other characters and do extra-normal stuff.

If you love DMR books of sword and sorcery , REH or Moorcock you will enjoy this tales. If you do not enjoy, well look elsewhere. 7/10 because even if they are pastiches I was hoping for more. This character Thorn although interesting was a bit of a deus-ex-machina and I couldn't really connect with him.



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