Dark Muse by Broken Sword Published by Green Dragon Publishing Library of Congress Control Number: 2008923873 622 printed pages http://www.SwordOfShakespeare.com
Review by Ted L Glines
“Dark Muse” strikes a unique and powerful note from the very beginning. Sidhe and Tuatha's children signal that this will be an uncommon reading adventure. Broken Sword takes us on a magical sea cruise aboard a nineteenth-century full-rigged Greek schooner with would-be rascals for a crew, a strong-necked ex-pirate for a captain, and fifteen erstwhile poets as passengers, and what a wild ride this will be.
“Immortal, Leanan Sidhe is a Queen of the Fae, and daughter of Sea Gods. As Jason holds a hand out to the love he's been seeking, as lust crashes like Atlantic waves on the rock of his soul, his experiences with both will be defined in terms of betrayal...”
We fall in love with two lovely women (one is flesh and blood - the other is a thing of mythic dreams) and manage to out-fox and sink a pirate ship while sailing across a frightening and stormy Atlantic, all within the first hundred pages. Soulful poems, sprinkled here and there, add depth as no straight narrative prose can ever hope to manage. By page 107, I found myself pausing to write a very strange poem in iambic pentameter; one stanza of eight lines with a rhyme pattern of ABBAACCA, and a final stanza of six lines with a rhyme pattern of ABCBAC, and I was startled because the completed poem had far more scope than its brevity would suggest. “Dark Muse” will teach you the nomenclature of 1875 sailing ships, the ways of ocean battles, the fine arts of love illusions, and also how to pen a powerful sonnet.
BrokenSword gives us a delightful novel about romance and a young man seeking to find himself in the women he tries to love in an action world of high adventure and higher risk - with the guidance of a supernatural being straight out of Irish mythology, his own Dark Muse. This novel will leave you breathless and ... changed.
I think Annabel said it already and best; Ted, you're awesome. If I could knight you with my broken sword, I would, for surely you deserve it more than myself! Thank you for giving my lil project a chance.
Sincerely,
Michael aka BrokenSword
he chose love, finding passion in verse... She chose him, and bent his passion... the Dark Muse will come to find there's more to mortal love than words...
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