This batch (which I’m forever behind on) is all by people I like to call friends and I’ve got a round two of books by friends I’ll be trying to post by the end of the month too.
Cthulhu Armageddon, by C.T. Phipps
Phipps does an amazing job of weaving the Lovecraft mythos with some hard-knuckled action. While I love the mythos as we all first read it by Ech-Pi himself, I always felt more kinship to those larger than heroes born out of Robert E. Howard’s imaginings that don’t just go mad by the sight of the unspeakable horror.
And here is where Phipps shines with his narrator, Booth. As the head of his unit in this post-apocalyptic wasteland Booth gives us all we need to do to know about our familiar yet horribly different and shattered world after the rising of the Old Ones. Familiar names are doled out in a reasonable non-info dump manner, so that anyone familiar with the mythos can say Oh I know what that is before Phipps can surprise us with an imaginative twist. We get to meet the grooviest ghoul of them all for example.
I enjoyed the pacing and at one point, I actually wondered – How can they top this! And we’re only halfway into the book – I was afraid it was going to wrap up too soon!
IF you like action, horror and some grimdark humor, you have got to check this one out! I look forward to reading more of Phipps work!