Howling Dark

Leaving far behind the impression of being a Dune fanfic, Howling Dark finds itself having its own voice and story to tell. Does it still play of the work of others, still utilize common tropes? Absolutely, of course it does. You will be hard pressed to find a modern scifi or fantasy novel that is truly unique. Howling Dark knows this, embraces it, and stands on the shoulders of those who made these tropes. Taking the best and cutting the worst of scifi's master voices. The story is epic, the twists can be unpredictable, which shocking, given the narrator actively tells us what is going to happen.

The author has built such a huge universe, and writes so..so many pages, and yet still finds time skips acceptable, showing us bare glimpses of things vast enough to be their own book series, complete with a vague history that comes somewhere, somehow, after Star Wars, Foundation, Asimov, again, a prequel series at this pace with this vastness would justify another 10 books....or just read the Foundation series, it's literally the same shit.

Though just as Steven Kingly wordy as Empire of Silence, this time the slog is far more rewarding with actually interesting description, observation, and story telling. And, it's a good place to find a quality SAT word casually and aptly thrown at a rate of about once every 2 pages. In Howling Dark I actually found the dialogue, and the 100 pages of narration between and mid-sentence, to almost be more enjoyable than the action.

Howling Dark has established a voice, embracing itself for what it is, and where it came from, and create a huge mythos that will be very interesting to continue further into.