Review for Lord of Druemarwin by Helen C. Johannes Lord of Druemarwin stands strong among its peers as a solid sword and board fantasy story, which is what attracted me to it. I came for duels on parapet walls, political intrigue, and the ever-present burden of honor, but I stayed for the characters and tightly woven plot. Johannes has built a world where characters and their struggles keep the reader turning pages until the very end. I’m not much for romance novels, but here’s one that knows how to get me invested in the perilous love story between our hero and heroine. Even the spicier scenes of love and lust seem earned rather than contrived, something I think is pretty rare. For lovers of worldbuilding, Lord of Druemarwin will not disappoint. One of the strongest aspects of this is the limited scope of the story. It doesn’t take place across vast continents, with hundreds of characters or cultures. Johannes takes her time and builds the three riv
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I've never had a blog of my very own before. Do I need to walk it? What does it eat? If it makes a mess, who's going to clean up after it? I suppose introductions are in order. I'm Robert Gainey, a thirty-something year old writer living in good old Florida. The basics of the thing are that I graduated from Florida State University with a BA in Creative Writing. Along the way, I fell sort of headfirst into firefighting as a vocation and never looked back. I mostly write in the fantasy or sci-fi genre, but sometimes I get lost and accidentally wind up in more conventional fiction. I have a book that is due to be released soon, and the details on that will be forthcoming. This post is mostly a formatting thing, so I can see how having a blog works. Cheers. -Robert Postscript: Are there #hashtags here? I learned to use those recently, but I don't know if that's a thing here. Find me using them at the following places: Twitter: https://twitter.com/RNGainey Instagr