BOOK REVIEW - The Pellucid Witch by G. Owen Wears

I would say, the Pellucid Witch is an art piece from the word-building perspective. The story is so original and honestly, I had never thought of an “alive”, organic armour which is both a parasite and a defence but what grabs you in this book is the narrative, indubitably.

The book is not exceptionally long, which allows you to take a bit more time to enjoy the details. Every scene is crafted with care and attention. Would I say it is completely horror? Not really, it also mixes a lot of fantasy but, this narrator walks victoriously out of it.

The action really starts more or less at half the book, and the events precede one another vigorously. The author creates before your eyes a fantasy world filled with blood that both fans, horror and fantasy, are going to enjoy at one level, or the other.

A short book to devour in a rainy afternoon. Good and evil have an intricate relationship in this tale, at some points, you lose sight of who is who. If you know what I mean.

I just can tell you, give it a go and enjoy. Wears knows how to build up a solid story and that is the pillar of his writing. A page turner I would say, and it seems many other reviewers think the same way.

A Red Sun, A Dying Earth, A Man Locked in a Ravenous Fungoid Armor

In the vast crystalline deserts of Earth’s last continent life is violent and short. Those who survive do so by preying on one another in a brutal cycle that yields only diminishing returns.

Kryl, a wanderer and mercenary, is no exception. The only thing that separates him from a thousand others–the insatiable eukaryotic armor that has bound its life to his. When a viscous band of marauders steal a child from the caravan Kryl has been hired to protect he sets out to win the girl back.

Little does he know, the life of the child was purchased by the Pellucid Witch, the most feared of the bandit lords to haunt the desert’s caravan routes. After a blood-soaked introduction, Kryl finds himself the willing yet unwitting guest of this enigmatic woman.

Taken to her bed and elevated to high standing in her house, Kryl soon discovers there is more to the Witch than meets the eye. Beneath her red stone keep he will come face to face with ancient secrets and an undying evil.

A bloody saga of the distant future by the author of “THE PLACE OF STARS AND BONES” Now fully revised and expanded!

About the author

Born in southern California in the early 1980’s, Owen now lives in northern Colorado with his girlfriend, their cats, and more books than he will ever be able to read. He has edited and contributed to eight volumes of the fantasy and horror anthology, ‘Exterus’, and the stand-alone fantasy anthology, ‘Magissa’. He is the author of a novella entitled ‘The Place of Stars and Bones’ as well as a few other works published under various pseudonyms. Currently Owen is working on several more novels and an anthology of speculative fiction entitled ‘Uncharted’.