The Purple Orb: A Gladdis of Rowenswood Tale

The Fate Sisters had set me up for one damned thing after another, so I needed a magic-fantastic world to escape into. Yet, with Tolkien sleeping among the stars and George R. R. Martin living on a private island in the Turks and Caicos, the odds seemed microscopic.

Then I found "The Purple Orb" by G. K. Bishop. Oh, holy Ashtaragh! Step aside, George Martin, you've been bettered. And please, J.R.R. Tolkien, worry no longer about the lack of creative contemporary fantasy authors; Bishop is here!

Get it here: The Purple Orb

 "The Purple Orb: A Gladdis of Rowenswood Tale" takes us into a world of ancient magic and hidden kingdoms, but Bishop is not just another author of a fantasy novel. Her wit is often sardonic, and her use of language is so masterful that it becomes a character in the story in its own right.

Did I say her prose is like poetry? I should have said like music. It's melodic in its pleasing sequence of scenes, harmonic in the way disparate plot threads combine into something greater than their parts, lyrical in its expressive, emotional poetry, and dynamic in its varying intensity, which adds remarkable depth to the narrative.

G. K. Bishop has opened the portal. Don't wait another minute; escape the mundane! Dive into "The Purple Orb."

Let me offer just one little whiff of her work to give you an idea of the novelty, the unexpected, the humor:

"Though feelings were quickly shielded, there remained a faint odor of shame in the chamber, which bears a resemblance to that of an inadvertent nether toot."

And ….. "The firebricks also retained warmth when the fire was low. Their cat was very impressed by this bit of human sorcery and granted unconditional approval to the responsible party. The rest of the winter, Gladdis had only to show her face at the door for the cat to begin purring loudly."

When I began this review, I intended to say good things about an extremely well-written story with engaging characters and a thoroughly entertaining storyline, but... that simply isn't enough for a book like this one. Words DO NOT do G. Kay's writing justice.

In closing, the Fate Sisters may have dealt me a rough hand, but they delivered "The Purple Orb" as compensation. I recommend you hurry over to Amazon and order a copy right now. I don't merely recommend it, I recommend it like the dickens!