Between Two Fires, Christopher Buehlman
Between Two Fires, Christopher Buehlman
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Between Two Fires

Author: Christopher Buehlman

Narrator: Steve West

Unabridged: 11 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/02/2012

Categories: Fiction, Horror


Synopsis

His extraordinary debut,Those across the River, was hailed as genre-bending Southern horror (California Literary Review) and graceful [and] horrific (Patricia Briggs). Now Christopher Buehlman invites readers into an even darker ageone of temptation and corruption, of war in heaven and of hell on earth. And Lucifer said, Let us rise against Him now in all our numbers, and pull the walls of heaven down The year is 1348. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village. An orphan of the Black Death, and an almost unnerving picture of innocence, she tells Thomas that plague is only part of a larger cataclysmthat the fallen angels under Lucifer are rising in a second war on heaven, and that the world of men has fallen behind the lines of conflict. Is it delirium or is it faith? She believes she has seen the angels of God. She believes the righteous dead speak to her in dreams. And now she has convinced the faithless Thomas to shepherd her across a depraved landscape to Avignon. There, she tells Thomas, she will fulfill her mission: to confront the evil that has devastated the earth and to restore to this betrayed, murderous knight the nobility and hope of salvation he long abandoned. As hell unleashes its wrath, and as the true nature of the girl is revealed, Thomas will find himself on a macabre battleground of angels, demons, saints, and the risen deadand in the midst of a desperate struggle for nothing less than the soul of man.

About Christopher Buehlman

Christopher Buehlman is the author of the literary horror novels Those Across the River and Between Two Fires. The winner of the 2007 Bridport Prize in poetry, he is also the author of several provocative plays, including Hot Nights for the War Wives of Ithaka. His first novel, Those Across the River, was nominated for a World Fantasy Award for best novel in 2012. Christopher lives in St. Petersburg, Florida.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sadie on February 23, 2023

This is my review space and my reading experience and this is a backlist title from 2012 so this is going to be less of traditional, critical review and more of a fucking essay on how hard I fell in love with this book. First, how did Buehlman get on my radar? Nobody told me about his work (shame on......more

Goodreads review by Petrik on October 23, 2021

Review copy provided by the author in exchange for an honest review. 3.5/5 stars A bleak historical fantasy/horror about life, death, faith, and hope. Christopher Buehlman is a new author to me this year. Unlike most of Buehlman’s fans, I found out about his work through reading his recently published......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on October 24, 2023

Re-Read 10/24/23: Second read in as many years, and I'll just be honest here: it's still fucking brilliant. A roadtrip through plague-years hell, featuring demons with men's faces and souls and demons and angels of a very different sort. This is a fantastic novel that's a Black Plague travelogue, epic......more

Goodreads review by Gergana on January 02, 2020

Warning: this review is a somewhat organized emotional blabbering and fan-girling over a book. As usual. Includes fanart done by me...again. "RUN!" Better resolution: [URL not allowed] When I first read the synopsis for Between Two Fires I thought: “Hmmm, a dark historical fic......more

Goodreads review by Gabrielle on October 11, 2020

"Between Two Fires" was the first book I read by Christopher Buehlman, and I immediately went out and got all of his other work as soon as I was done with this one - but I think it is still my favorite. Set during the Black Plague, this is a strange blend of historical horror and fantasy that follow......more