BOOK REVIEW | HOUSE OF MUIR | LUKE TARZIAN
The war that was won is lost. His country razed and friends dead, Cailean Catil seeks the miserable solace of inebriation. But fate has other plans for ill-lucked men.
An ocean away, he returns to the Galrun Muir, the order from which he was previously exiled. Seeking answers as to why they now worship the monster haunting his dreams, Cailean embarks on a quest to confront the ghost of Gabriel Muir and seal his tomb. Should he succeed, all will be made clear.
But some truths are better left dead.
THE GUILT WILL ALWAYS CALL YOU BACK…
Fiel has lost everything. Her niece is dead at the hands of Te Mirkvahíl and her country has been razed by the demon’s legions. But fate has other plans for ill-lucked women.
An ocean away, in the city Harbanan, Fiel resumes her search for Vare Tal-úlm. Her journey leads her to the monster-hunting Galrun Muir who claim not only to have knowledge of Vare, but of Fiel’s previous visit to their hallowed grounds.
Lady Mirkvahíl, they say, has returned.
THE DEAD RISE…
Behtréal has won. Helveden is a ruin, the Ariathan Empire is dead, and The Keepers’ Wrath is his to wield. With it, in the dead city Banerowos, he can rewrite history and reclaim lives lost—he can bring his people back.
But things are not so simple as that, for within the dead city Behtréal must contend with the guilt of memory and all its ghosts.
MADNESS IN TRUTH…
The doors have opened.
Welcome in.
House of Muir is the continuation of Luke Tarzian’s nightmarish fantasy series The Shadow Twins that was begun in Vultures.
With Thealys An dead in the previous book, Behtrial has The Keepers Wrath in his hands and the capabilities to put right the mistakes that he made in his previous life and rewrite history so that the plague that he let loose on the world that ultimately decimated the Phantaxis can be set right.
Meanwhile, Cailean Catil is finding solace at the bottom of a bottle. Trying to ignore the ghosts of the past, he is called back to the order of the Galrun Muir who exiled him many years ago.
On the other side of the ocean, in the city of Harbanan, Fiel finds the daughter that she forgot. Resuming her search for Vare Tal – Ulm, her path leads her to the Galrun Muir and an identity she does not recall, that of Lady Mirkvahil.
Hallucinogenically nightmarish, Luke Tarzian’s second book in the shadow twins is as equally mind bending as the first. With its nonlinear plots and existential pain and dread, House of Muir is a complete head mash of a story.
Pouring his heart and soul into the book, Luke Tarzian takes the reader on a journey across time and space, memory and grief. At times the journey can be a little uncomfortable, and sometimes confusing. It’s a bit like the boat scene in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate factory stretched to full book length and then dialled up to eleven, with Tarzian playing the titular conductor of the bizarre.
If you like dark fantasy with varying degrees of black, The Shadow Twins saga will definitely be of interest.
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