SHOW-OFF AND TELL #20 - Keith Deininger - The Godgame

#20 in my growing list of posts where I unashamedly show off my signed copies of books is one that arrived with me just this week, and I could not be happier to finally get my hands on a hard copy of this little beauty.

The Godgame by Keith Deininger.

This is the first time this has been available in a hard copy and this is purely down to the immense amount of work that Mr Deininger has put into making this book look as beautiful as it does.

This edition includes the first two books in the series, The Godgame and The Blood of Talos. This is a new epic series where Keith takes us to a wondrous land of war and fantasy where the story is dark and mysterious with never ending twists.

This is my copy:

REVIEW: Keith Deininger - The Godgame (The Godgame #1)

Genre: Dark Fantasy

Publisher: A Meridian Codex Book

Publication Date: 1^st October 2015

Pages: 242

MY REVIEW:

A copy of The Godgame (The Godgame #1) was sent to Confessions of a Reviewer by the author Keith Deininger in exchange for an honest review. This is said review. This is A Meridian Codex Book.

Isn’t it funny how the simple task of reading a book can take a turn you never expected it to? This sort of describes my experiences with the writings of Keith Deininger. My first experience of reading his stuff was The Ghosts of Eden. I found it very weird. I just didn’t get it at all. I could however see potential there for me to like his stuff in the future so kept plugging away.

When I saw a post with some blurb on it for The Godgame it looked right up my street.

What I’m trying to say is, if you don’t “get” a book, don’t write the author off. If I had done that I would never have found this absolute beauty.

This series starts with the extended prologue, Marrow’s Legacy. You can read my review of it here.

Eli has made it to the other side and is on his way to Talos. At the same time, in the neighbouring territory of Nova, twelve year old Ash is starting an adventure he is not even aware of.

The Talosian’s are a people of decadence. They live for the good things in life and will do anything in their power to get it and eradicate anyone who gets in their way. The Archon of Talos has some tough decisions to make. There is unrest in Talos. People are losing faith in their God and in their leadership. The Archon feels the time is right to destroy Nova and all its inhabitants.

In a story with many paths, the entire population of Nova is in danger. The Archon of Talos is in danger from people in his own city but doesn’t realise it. Who will survive? Who will be victorious? Will common sense prevail or will the forces of darkness that surround everyone have their way. These are the players in The Godgame.

GUEST POST: Confessions of my Past, Present and Future #15 - Keith Deininger

Confessions of my Past, Present and Future

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Keith Deininger

The Past

As a sheltered kid with an overactive imagination, it didn’t take long to discover the allure of books. When I wasn’t allowed to watch the kind of movies I wanted to watch or play the video games I wanted to play, I could always read. And it was reading that first led me down some strange paths of the imagination, and became a lifelong obsession.

I began with fantasy, Roald Dahl and C. S. Lewis. Even though reading was difficult for me in grade school, I struggled my way through a lot of books. I remember forcing myself to read The Hobbit (a battered copy from the school library) and having a very hard time with the language, but I persevered and loved it by the end.

After that, I began to search my dad’s haphazard shelves of books. Most of the books he owned were technical, filled with dense text and nonsense equations and charts, but I was able to find a few works of fiction, mostly science fiction. That was how I discovered Ray Bradbury and Frank Herbert. I was in awe of the depths of imagination I found in The Martian Chronicles and in Dune. They changed me, my perceptions and how I viewed the world, and I went in search of more.

GUEST POST: Keith Deininger talks about the Amazon Kindle Scout programme.

Why I Entered My Latest Novel in Amazon’s Kindle Scout Program

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Keith Deininger

Although I’d been writing for years, I didn’t begin to take my writing career seriously until March 2011. I know because that’s when I setup my website and wrote my first blog post. I was three months clean and sober.

I’d written a 100k word fantasy novel the year before, in a haze, but when I looked it over, I realized it was crap. It was disjointed and still didn’t have an ending. I had tons of notes and scribbled verse, but nothing substantial, nothing finished. I had lots of ideas (I’ve always had lots of ideas) but I didn’t know where to start, so I collected a few of my more recent ideas together and began to write.

ANNOUNCEMENT: EXCITING STUFF FOR NEXT WEEK AND A TEMPORARY CLOSURE!

Hello everyone. Just wanted to give you a little heads up as to some of the things coming up on Confessions of a Reviewer!

Next Monday 24^th August I have a very special guest blog post to share with you, written by the writer of some of the darkest fiction I have read in years, Keith Deininger.