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The Storm Beneath a Midnight Sun

Alexander Dan Vilhjalmsson

3 Reviews

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fantasy

Returning to the world of Shadows of the Short Days, it's time to go beyond Reykjavik to Hrimland's remote islands . . .

CHANGE DOES NOT ALWAYS HAPPEN FOR THE BETTER.

War on the mainland is draining Reykjavik. For some, the remote islands off Hrimland's coast are their only hope of survival.

Elka, a recovering addict, has fled there with her son Solvi. In their village they find a new life - all thanks to the Deep, a peculiar power their neighbours praise for the booming fishing industry. Everything seems perfect, but Solvi does not trust the people who take his mother in.

Kari is a professor of sorcery, recruited for a career-making venture - an excavation of an ancient power. He must go deep into the magical wasteland, find what is buried there, and turn the tide of the war forever.

But the world might not be ready for the storm he will unearth . . .

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'A marvellous, quirky, original fantasy' Joanne Harris, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Strawberry Thief on Shadows of the Short Days

'One of the most ambitious, intense, original and thrilling debuts I've read in a long time' Grimdark Magazine on Shadows of the Short Days

'Fresh and exciting: full of dark, demonic, revolutionary shenanigans' Peter Newman, author of The Vagrant on Shadows of the Short Days

'A beautiful unique story! The characters are endearing and the world making fascinating' Netgalley reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

'An original and fascinating fantasy series . . . Great world building and characters. Highly recommended' Netgalley reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

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Praise for The Storm Beneath a Midnight Sun

  • A heady mix of revolution, monsters and magic, this is a novel of an alternative Reykjavik in which myth and religion are alive - and hungry - Anna Stephens on Shadows of the Short Days

  • Vividly imagined and compelling - SFX on Shadows of the Short Days

  • Dark and bleak and imaginative - Aliette de Bodard on Shadows of the Short Days

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Alexander Dan Vilhjalmsson

Alexander Dan VilhjA lmsson is an Icelandic author who lives in ReykjavA k. He writes in both Icelandic and English and is the founder and editor of Iceland's first SFF magazine, FurA usA gur (Weird Stories). Alexander is also the vocalist and lyricist for Icelandic black metal band Carpe Noctem.

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