Alex Pheby's 'Mordew' is an epic fantasy exploration of Neoplatonism, and a wonderful, baroque successor to the works of Mervyn Peake. Beautifully written, and unfeasibly thought-provoking.
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I read a review of Alex Pheby's Malarkoi that made it sound right up my street, so I read Mordew, (first in the series) and wow. Complex, dark, baroquely inventive, gorgeous prose—generally everything I love about Mervyn Peake but written with a real sense of mission.
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5/5: Alex Pheby's Mordew immerses the reader immediately in a deeply peculiar and mysterious world. It is clearly indebted to Mervyn Peake, both in its involute, tenebrous prose, and in its baroque world-building. Like Peake's Gormenghast trilogy it is set in a world with clear similarities to our own, but one which is equally clearly other. It bears many cultural and linguistic resemblances to Victorian England, and its inhabitants are aware of the qualities of Frenchness and Irishness, but none of those places has any clear geographic presence. The city of Mordew itself is stated to have been ...
5/17/23 random entry:
1. Malarkoi
2. Alex Pheby
3. Galley Beggar Press UK
4. 2022
5. 1st print HC, signed
6. Why I own it: The second book, after Mordew, in the Cities of the Weft trilogy. I haven't read this one yet, but am looking forward to the continuation of the story from Mordew.
5/2/23 random entry:
1. Mordew
2. Alex Pheby
3. Galley Beggar Press
4. 2020
5. 1st print UK signed
6. Why I own it: It was recommended to me by a few people. The first few pages were intriguing, but it's still on the TBR pile. Hopefully with the summer break I'll get a chance to dive into it.
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