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petealdin's review
5.0
There are a million stories in the City of Tides. And this is ... three of them.
Three of them rolled into one.
The Eldar Sister follows the endearingly sardonic Stessa Asho (Orc, Souse, and in the second half of his life Private Investigator) as he finds himself on the hunt for two missing (kidnapped?) girls. History, it seems, has repeated...not once, but twice. And we are treated to watching Asho working to thwart an evil cult during three distinct periods of his life.
Each thread of Asho's history and story are woven together expertly, the author using different tenses and different "persons" (as in first person, second persons, third person) to distinguish each narrative. The story wastes no time and no space moving the plot along. Or should I say plots...
The Eldar Sister is a pitch-perfect blend of noir (a genre he understands very well), dark humor and fantasy ... with a healthy seasoning of Lovecraftian something (not horror, but close). And Asho is an endearing character I would LOVE to see more of.
With The Eldar Sister, Mr. Welke has knocked it out of the park yet again.
Three of them rolled into one.
The Eldar Sister follows the endearingly sardonic Stessa Asho (Orc, Souse, and in the second half of his life Private Investigator) as he finds himself on the hunt for two missing (kidnapped?) girls. History, it seems, has repeated...not once, but twice. And we are treated to watching Asho working to thwart an evil cult during three distinct periods of his life.
Each thread of Asho's history and story are woven together expertly, the author using different tenses and different "persons" (as in first person, second persons, third person) to distinguish each narrative. The story wastes no time and no space moving the plot along. Or should I say plots...
The Eldar Sister is a pitch-perfect blend of noir (a genre he understands very well), dark humor and fantasy ... with a healthy seasoning of Lovecraftian something (not horror, but close). And Asho is an endearing character I would LOVE to see more of.
With The Eldar Sister, Mr. Welke has knocked it out of the park yet again.
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