Dreadful, Caitlin Rozakis
Dreadful, Caitlin Rozakis
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Dreadful

Author: Caitlin Rozakis

Narrator: Keval Shah

Unabridged: 11 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/28/2024

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy, Epic


Synopsis

A sharp-witted, debut high fantasy farce featuring killer moat squid, toxic masculinity, evil wizards, and a garlic festival—all at once.

It's bad enough waking up in a half-destroyed evil wizard's workshop with no eyebrows, no memories, and no idea how long you have before the Dread Lord Whomever shows up to murder you horribly and then turn your skull into a goblet or something.

It's a lot worse when you realize that Dread Lord Whomever is . . . you.

Gav isn't really sure how he ended up with a castle full of goblins, or why he has a princess locked in a cell. All he can do is play along with his own evil plan in hopes of getting his memories back before he gets himself killed.

But as he realizes that nothing—from the incredibly tasteless cloak adorned with flames to the aforementioned princess—is quite what it seems, Gav must face up to all the things the Dread Lord Gavrax has done. And he'll have to answer the hardest question of all—who does he want to be?

A high fantasy farce featuring killer moat squid, toxic masculinity, an evil wizard convocation, and a garlic festival. All at once. All in all, Dread Lord Gavrax has had better weeks.

About Caitlin Rozakis

Caitlin Rozakis has had too many career changes, including mechanical engineering (cut short after the murderous robot incident), finance (amortizing tequila receivables is not as fun as drinking tequila), and the American Museum of Natural History (who knew emus had birth certificates?). Now she specializes in tech marketing and lives in Jersey City with her husband and son. Her short fiction has been featured in multiple anthologies and publications, including Cast of Wonders, Aurealis, Daily Science Fiction, Weirdbook, and Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and won LUMINA's 2018 Speculative Fiction contest. Dreadful is her first novel.


Reviews

Can there be more damning words than "This is not for everyone?" Of course there can be. But I think it will be much better than faint praise to say, "This book which is not for everyone was just right for me." I don't think a serious book about John Horne Burns could have turned out differently. Th......more

Goodreads review by George

In the introduction to this biography of John Horne Burns, Margolick states he is a straight man, and one had to wonder right then why he felt he needed to make that announcement. In a way, it is an apology in advance for the lack of insight and sympathy shown throughout concerning the forces of hom......more

Goodreads review by David

I have to wonder about why David Margolick the author, when writing about John Horne Burns, a flamboyantly gay writer, feels the need early on in the book to announce that he is straight. One ends up wondering how that ends up coloring his view of Burns--whose actions he makes many judgments about.......more

Goodreads review by Michael

Interesting rediscovery of an author known for one major work, a postwar novel called The Gallery. Burns published two other books which were mostly reviled, and he died of a cerebral hemorrhage in his late 30s. The problem with the book is that he left very little behind except letters to friends a......more