Decay
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Ten years ago, a group of six insurrectionists know as the Harbingers staged a dark war against an even darker society of sorcerers who have offensively used thier magical birthrights and desires for power against a gullible and blind world.
Three years ago, a sudden global outbreak slowed the Harbingers' progress of justice until all of it was made meaningless due to a doomsday known as Blighted Day that effectively ended an already volatile era.
Since then, the world has stagnated and fallen into silence. There are no remnants of the Harbingers or the righteous bloodshed from their failed revolution. There are no kings or queens to rally a crusade against the creatures and monstrocities thaat overrun and roam the world. There is no form or magic or military superpower capable of delivering salvation or hope.
Today, one of those insurrectionists, in her strict isolation, still has a whisper of willpower that will be her strongest boon as she returns to revitalize thier cause and revive a mad world engulfed in desperation. She, along with those unexpected, once allied, or hated shall be the crux to overthrow a soulless and everlasting nightmare.
That is, if Tomorrow is worth enduring...
Praise for this book
Good Start.
Two Things.
1. I received an advance review copy for free through Booksirens, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
2. This review will be crossed between Goodreads, Bookbub, Amazon, and Booksirens.
What happens if you take a traditional Fantasy/High Fantasy setting and mix in a bit of Walking Dead/HP Lovecraft along with doses of humor, i believe you would get the novel Decay By D.C Fortune.
In Decay, see a group of people known as the Harbingers, who are more or less demigods, go on a quest to save a world that is shell of its former self, thank to an apocalyptical event, that left the world cursed, destroying nature as people knew it, and turning most of the living inhabitants into a shell of there former self's.
From everything i could tell this is author D.C Fortune's debut novel, and at around 810 pages, the author didnt make it easy one themselves.
And this was very obvious from the start of the book, as the writing to me, seemed very disjointed, which in turn caused the book to come out of the gates very slow.
But this book did something, that many books that have that kind questionable start don't do, it grew as it went on.
I dont know if it was nerves coming out of the gate, or what happened, but i felt like author D.C Fortune became more comfortable as the novel went on, the writing and pacing becoming a lot better the further into the book i got, to the point i actually started to find myself getting invested in the characters.
The various protagonists in the book, showed wonderous growth throughout the novel, and took me on a pleasantly surprising adventure, filled with a lot of excitement, more then some downright laugh worthy writing, but also surprisingly, a couple very poignant moments as well.
But as much as i enjoyed watching both the characters and the author grow, as i read the pages, i still felt like there was something missing.
Great Fantasy/High Fantasy, is about the world building, as much as it is about the character building, and i felt a decent lack of that here, and it was disappointing. Where authors like Robert Jordan would over indulge themselves in the world building, to hysterical lengths at times, D.C. Fortune here i felt like underwhelmed severely.
Which was a shame, because D.C Fortune is on to something with this world, and i honestly would love to know more about its story and history, there are glimpses of an interesting backstory for the world, highlighted by the characters at various points, but the time was never really taken to elaborate on it anymore then that, beyond what was needed to move the plot device along, and it leaved me wanting more.
But despite that i found my enjoyment of the novel increase as i was reading, becoming more invested in the Harbingers story, that the last 25 to 30% of the book i did in one sitting because i didnt want to stop.
Ultimately i enjoyed my time Decay, which was a good first attempt at a novel, even if it was a little disjointed at times, i found myself satisfied at the end.
I just hope in the future, D.C Fortune, will consider returning to this world and elaborating on some of the history that i know both the world, and its characters hold, because they are on to something here, and i would like to see/know more of it.