From the bestselling M. R. Carey comes an utterly unique and enchantingly dark epic fantasy fable like no other. This is the tale of Once Was Willem, who - eleven hundred and some years after the death of Christ, in the kingdom that had but recently begun to call itself England - rose from the dead to defeat a great evil facing the humble village of Cosham. Pennick for all its beauty was ever a place with a dark reputation. The forests of the Chase were said to be home to nixies and boggarts, and there was a common belief, passed down through many generations, that the castle housed an unquiet ghost of terrible and malign power. These rumours I can attest were all true; indeed they fell short of the truth by a long way . . .
Publication Year: 2025
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0I really liked this. It's basically a story told by the most NPC party member of a heroic party, weaving bits and pieces of the narrative together until it braids into the final confrontation. It was very fun and though some of the characters weren't as rounded as others, there wasn't a single point where I thought I disliked any of them (except the big bad, of course haha).
The horror here is great. There are are a lot of evil and ambiguously evil things here, but it's treated as the terrible things they are, which I appreciate. Not really moralizing, but damn did I feel great that the villagers felt like crap for burning a child at the stake etc etc.
I think my only suggestion is to get this as an ebook or read where you can access the internet since it does apply some middle english/early modern english words and phrases. Not a LOT, per se, and the ones it does use, it reuses often so you don't have to keep looking things up, but it's nice to just poke the screen for the dictionary lol.
Once-Was-Willem is now my favorite pseudo-gelatinous zombie boy.
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