‘The Hounds of Ash and other tales of Fool Wolf’ – Greg Keyes (Edge)
Page Count: 169 Pages Before I talk about the story itself, I’d like to take a brief moment and just admire the absolutely gorgeous cover art on show, courtesy of Julie Dillon. Look at it, isn’t it lovely? It was covers like this that got me into Fantasy in the first place, far too long ago now, so it’s always a bit of a treat to see more recent books travel down that same road. I say, ‘recently’… I’ve just checked the inside and ‘The Hounds of Ash’ was published back in 2008… Damn, I feel old. But anyway… I did that thing I always end up doing where I buy a book (in this case, Greg Keyes’ ‘The Basilisk Throne’), hop on Amazon to see if I’ve missed any other books and then buy something else entirely and read that instead. I will read ‘The Basilisk Throne’ one day but the last couple of days have been all about ‘The Hounds of Ash’. Let me tell you about it. Thrust into perilous action by his father’s spirit and his village’s shaman, Fool Wolf, perhaps the laziest of heroes in his fathe...