Honored to get the first review on Goodreads for Grave's Daughters from the esteemed Sword & Sorcery (with Mesoamerican flair) author Greg Mele. Even more honored that he compares the book to Brian McNaughton's Throne of Bones (I reviewed that back in 2012)
Check out the Giveaway on Goodreads for the ePub/Kindle (link).
Here's a snippet of his review.
Doktor Grave, the creation of an elder, lost race seeking to fashion something from the ruins of dead rulers, has Odinic elements, just as his three daughters evoke images of goddesses of healing, fire and the underworld. And like goddesses, they hold great power and great passion, but far less *compassion*, which is where they perhaps differ most from their progenitor.
It is Grave's attempt to steer his daughters towards his purpose, their rebellion, the catastrophes those rebellions cause, and how a far larger crisis brings all together into a synthesis and fulfillment, perhaps not originally what the good Doktor intended, but better for the world, that these stories concern. I don't offer more than that, because they need to be experienced--the prose read carefully--to really see what Lindberg is about. But in its lushness, its strangeness, it's "monster's eye" view of a fallen world and fallen, macabre beauty, this work most resembles the magnificent THRONE OF BONES by the late Brian McNaughton, which did for ghouls of Lovecraftian bent what Anne Rice did for vampires.
