DARK SLEEPER is an interesting, fascinating book that creates a lush fantastic world inspired by Dickens, but so much darker and stranger. Recommended by Tim Powers and Suzanne Clarke -- and I can see why. I enjoyed the novel... partially because I've never seen anyone do Dickenesque fiction quit...
At last Jeffrey Barlough has returned to the darker (and, to my mind, more interesting) themes of the first books in the Western Lights series, though he hasn't quite plumbed the horrific depths of [b:The House in the High Wood: A Story of Old Talbotshire|1560536|The House in the High Wood A Story ...
There’s no better way to introduce a novice to the setting of Jeffrey Barlough’s Western Lights series than to quote liberally from the “About the Series” section at the end of the book:Imagine a world in which the last Ice Age never ended.With much of her territory locked up with ice, medieval Engl...
Anchorwick is the latest installment in Jeffrey Barlough’s Western Lights series. As with previous volumes, the book stands alone and a reader doesn’t have to have read other entries to understand or enjoy this one. We do, however, get to meet the younger incarnations of Prof. Titus Tiggs and Dr. Da...
This is the weakest entry so far in Jeffrey Barlough's Western Lights series but that doesn't mean it's not a good read. It's a light-hearted look at the travails of the residents of Market Snailsby in southern Fenshire (not to be confused with the benighted residents of Slopshire) as they try to pu...
Jeffrey Barlough's second novel in his Western Lights series is another wicked marriage of Dickens and Lovecraft. However, where in Dark Sleeper the focus was on the Dickensian half of the union, in House, the Lovecraftian half comes to the fore. The blurb at the back of my edition says, "The nightm...
Reading Dark Sleeper I was reminded of The Moonstone because both authors write in a style and with a pace not often encountered in modern novels. In both instances, for me, this was initially off-putting but once I got used to it, I found myself enjoying the cadences and the obvious fun the authors...
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