6/10/2023 0 Comments Throne of the crescent moon![]() ![]() All he wants now is to settle down and spend his twilight years in good company with a rejuvenating cup of cardamom tea close at hand.Īlas, we can’t always get what we want. The last of the ghul hunters protecting the heaving city of Dhamsawaat, Adoulla is bone weary and fed up with risking his life hunting the dark powers of djen, ghuls, and other bloodthirsty servants of the Traitorous Angel that plague the land. ![]() The hero of this short but vibrant novel is Doctor Adoulla Makhslood, an overweight and achy old man with more than sixty heavy years of perilous adventure behind him. ![]() Moving away from the familiar medieval lands of most of our favourite fantasy epics, Saladin Ahmed presents a warm, colourful and spice-scented Arabian Nights-esque city as a gloriously rich backdrop for his tale of evil apparitions, zombie magic and the motivating powers of tea. While fantasy is clearly a genre of startling variation, it rarely gets as exotic as Throne of the Crescent Moon. ![]()
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