Tides of Darkness – Andrew Van Wey

5/5 stars

Truth be told, this book has left me speechless. I’m not really sure what to say about it or how to explain the feelings this book has left me with.

Tides of Darkness gave me chills. It’s a sheer gut punch of raw emotion, power, and humanity’s unrelenting determination to survive beyond all else. It’s a storm of tears and a flood of relieved breaths; a perilous roller coaster where up is diagonal and down is sideways.

Everything really came full circle here, and I really have to give Andrew all the credit for giving me characters that felt as real to me as the people around me every day. Zelda and Mark have become as much a part of life to me as my friends and family, more so than almost any characters I’ve ever read.

THE CLIFFHANGER THOUGH!!! I’d already put my pitchfork and torch away after the threat of a certain death had passed, but that might just be enough for me to bring them out again! I’ll just be over here impatiently waiting for book 3.

While Tides is approaching absolute doorstop territory in length, it’s worth every minute and every second spent immersing yourself in the black-violet light of Greywood Bay. The Lost Coast will suck you in and utterly devour you if you aren’t careful, but then again, that may be preferable to what awaits you bathing in the light of J’harr…

Many thanks to Andrew for letting me see this early. As much as I’ve loved some of his other works, this is unequivocally his best one yet!