BIG PUBLISHERS REALLY LOVE GENERIC FANTASY.
They’ve trained you to expect the same stories. The same medieval worlds. The same reluctant chosen one. The same “epic” plots that drag on for ten books.
But what if books didn’t used to be this way?
What if there was a time when stories took risks—when fantasy wasn’t afraid to shock, unsettle, or break the “rules”?
Brotherhood of the Wolf: The Lesser Evil does something most books wouldn’t dare.
It starts as a richly drawn historical fantasy, full of tension and intrigue in a crumbling Constantinople. A boy with ambitions. A mother with secrets. A city with something lurking underneath.
Then—halfway through—it changes.
The words vanish. The story keeps going. But now you have to see it.
“The work is unusual in how it clearly values the storytelling power of words and images equally.” — Kirkus Reviews
“Were it not for the tenuous connection to a few key words in the final paragraphs of the written portion (and a confirmation on the final page), a reader might be forgiven for concluding that someone at the printing press stitched two stories together by mistake.” — Seattle Book Review
Maybe. Or maybe folks forgot what it’s like to experience a story that makes us think.
“Still, Mazzarra’s depiction of gladiatorial combat—attended by vampires and various other ghouls—is impressive to behold. It’s worth slowing down for, and readers who take the time to study each panel will marvel and wince in equal measure.” — Seattle Book Review
Maybe we expect to be spoon-fed every detail. Maybe we don’t know what to do when a book demands that we look closer.
Because if you do—if you stop, and truly see—the book reveals itself. And you realize it’s been watching you the whole time.
“On one page, Mazzarra’s images depict the fanged members of this many-armed group, and their collective power is effectively contrasted with individual portraits of the story’s main players, Fausta and Nikephoros; the young lord is given a haunting blank-faced mask to wear in the arena.” — Kirkus Reviews
A book that knows its own hunger.
A book that swallows you whole.
Stop skimming the same tired stories.
Try something bold. Something haunting. Something you’ll actually remember.
Brotherhood of the Wolf: The Lesser Evil
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