Draakensky Book Review, The Horror Zine, by Jon R. Meyers
2024
“You know how sometimes when you’re out in the wild at a book store perusing the barrage of colorful book titles flooding the shelves, all with their magical words tucked away behind a front and back cover, and something about it immediately catches your eye? Maybe it’s a blurb or two from someone you know or trust. Perhaps, it’s the striking cover art that subconsciously builds suspense and intrigue unknowingly.
“You ever notice how some books seem to speak to you more than others? As if they’re somehow louder than the others that surround them? Like it’s an entire otherworld once it meets the palms of your hands, a neat little package written in such a way that the words really begin to connect with you on a higher level as they pull you in, craft, and shape an entirely different meaning the more you read it; almost like it’s….magic.
“Paula Cappa’s Draakensky: A Supernatural Tale of Magick and Romance is just that: a powerful, timeless piece of dark fiction that is just as much a work of art as the artful content found within its magickal pages. The author’s attention to every detail throughout the entirety of the book is well-researched, written as top-notch, and very much on display here in terms of overall creativity. From a mysterious gothic riverside town and windmill setting in Bedford, New York, this novel contains deep character development, factual magick, Celtic witchcraft, and is a beautifully haunting supernatural tale centered around a slow-burn plot.”
Read the full review at The Horror Zine: https://thehorrorzine.com/ReviewFolder/1new/Draakensky/Draakensky.html
Jon R. Meyers is a freelance author, avid book reviewer, and social media coordinator for the Horror Writers Association Chicagoland Chapter, as well asa former resident book reviewer for The Horror Fiction Review (2012-2020). His body of work has appeared in a number of various publications specializing in occult, horror, dark fantasy, and weird fiction.
For more information, find him on social media: hwachicago.org
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Author of the Month for December, Edgar Allan Poe (1809 – 1849) is well known and revered. Many here know his biography from the 13 posts I have at listed under Poe in the INDEX. Poe lost both his parents when he was very young (age 2) and lost his foster mother at age 20. His marriage to Virginia was short lived when she died of tuberculosis.
Paula Cappa