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Book Review

This Forsaken Earth (2006)

Paul Kearney
Reviewed by Will Boisvert | Dec 01, 2006
EW's GRADE
B

Details Writer: Paul Kearney; Genre: Fiction; Publisher: Spectra

The first mate is a green, nine-foot-tall halftroll, but This Forsaken Earth, the second book in Paul Kearney's Sea Beggars series is in the Master and Commander vein of high-sea adventure, with wormy-biscuit realism and Captain Rol Cortishane barking crisp nautical commands on his pirate ship Revenant. On shore, the cannon-and-cutlass procedural clashes with the fantasy elements in Kearney's world of Umer, which feels like Arthurian legends filtered through Highlander. Kearney crafts gripping, richly imagined shipboard scenes, but Rol's personas (hard-bitten sea dog, mystic demigod) don't mesh.

Originally posted Dec 01, 2006 Published in issue #910 Dec 08, 2006 Order article reprints
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