Book description
GOD IS DEAD, his corpse hidden in the catacombs beneath Mordew.
In the slums of the sea-battered city a young boy called Nathan Treeves lives with his parents, eking out a meagre existence by picking treasures from the Living Mud and the half-formed, short-lived creatures it spawns. Until one day…
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1 author picked Mordew as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I’ve always disliked the double meaning of the word “fantasy,” both as a signifier for a world with supernatural elements but also as something one desires.
For I do not desire to be in the world of Mordew. It is a grim place, a city built on the corpse of God, where children spawn deformed from the rotting muck. A city protected from the battering sea by a great wall and ruled by the cruel, magic-wielding master of Mordew.
It reads like a Charles Dickens novel, but twisted, infected by foul magics, and run through the mud. There’s…
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