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Review: (Arc) The Hallows Novel by H.L Tinsley

March 7, 2024 by Alan Behan Leave a Comment

Rating: 10/10

Synopsis

The Hallow serum was once sacred to the Auld Bloods. Used to gain access to their lost ancestral powers, now it is regulated and administered by the powerful Providence Company. Evolved from the echelons of the Auld Church, the company exists to maintain the balance between faith, science and politics.

But keeping the peace between humans and Auld Bloods isn’t easy. Taking Hallow comes at a price. Providence Company Assessor Cam must deal with backstreet bootleggers, burnt-out addicts and floating nuns that won’t stay on the ground.

When a string of Auld Blood deaths appear to have been caused by a corrupted batch of Hallow, Cam begins to suspect all may not be as it seems. Bodies are piling up. Someone is hiding something, and the consequences are becoming monstrous.

Expected publication March 22, 2024

Review

Wow, another grimalicious tale by the one and only H.L. Tinsley. And damn the Auld God’s has she delivered with this wonderful dark urban fantasy story will have you on tender hooks from the very first page.

The Hallows is a standalone novel that is fast-paced, action-packed, dark humoured riddled with morally grey characters and let me just tell you they are bloody absolutely fantastic. What I loved is the characters names, here is just an example to let you know what I mean.

Here we have the likes of Forget-Me-Not, Lavender, Friday, Wednesday, Sunday, Daffodil, June, and Tussie and that is just a few that are excellent additions to this amazing story, each felt unique and very intriguing in their own way. I think H.L Tinsley could have written a novel about each character their that good.

If you’ve read H.L. Tinsley The Vanguard Chronicles then you will absolutely love this world she has created for us where an ancient race called the Auld Bloods, a religious order who look human who take a drug called the Hallows to enhance their senses and powers and its just bloody awesome.

H.L. Tinsley continues to mesmerise with her beautiful writing and exquisite woven prose, the worldbuilding and 1920’s noir fantasy setting is frigging brilliant. If drug-fuelled monsters, floating nuns with guns is for you, or just a story that will captivate your mind, then you need to read this dark delicious tale and add it to your tbr pile straight away, you won’t regret it.

In this tale our main protagonist Camillia works for the Company, in a city run by superpowered nuns. There is a bad batch of the Hallows drug running rampant on the streets causing freak mutations, friends disappearing and being murdered. Camellia and his companions must find and discover who is behind it all.

But there is something sinister happening, secrets being kept and an ancient order trying to cause friction and bring war between the Auld bloods and humans, just as one of their own is about to be inaugurated into government that will change everything for the better. Who ever is behind it all, will do everything to stop them bringing death and destruction to all, Auld bloods and humans alike.

A grim noir fantasy with elements of horror with lots of dark humour. The Hallows is an adult fantasy novel, which contains adult themes, violence and some unsavoury language and I loved every moment of it. I very highly recommend….😁🔥

Filed Under: Dark Fantasy, Grimdark, Horror Fantasy, Monsters, Murder Mystery, Religious Horror, Reviews, Thriller, Urban Fantasy Tagged With: Book Review, Fantasy Books, Grimdark Fantasy, Self Published

About Alan Behan

Right a bit about myself, I am married to my wonderful wife Catherine of 18 years, we have three beautiful girls together, 20, 18 and 14 years of age. They are my world as well as my books...😁 I work full time as industrial plumber, I'm 45 years old and my hobbies is spending time with my family and of course reading fantasy every chance I can get. I love supporting indie authors and getting the word out about their new books. My all-time favorite authors are Steven Erikson, Mark Lawrence and Robert Jordan and that's just to name a few.

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