{"id":23148,"date":"2020-09-09T06:45:20","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T10:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tellest.com\/?p=23148"},"modified":"2020-09-10T09:12:47","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T13:12:47","slug":"satirical-fantasy-promo-i-hate-your-prophecy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/satirical-fantasy-promo-i-hate-your-prophecy\/","title":{"rendered":"Satirical Fantasy Promo – I HATE Your Prophecy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Greetings!\u00a0 While we often take a look at fantasies, it’s not so often that they’re built around satire and dry wit.\u00a0 Cue today’s critiquing novel, I HATE Your Prophecy<\/em>, which draws back the curtain and observes tons of tropes and cliches from the fantasy genre, and puts it under the lens of an interesting, sardonic story.<\/p>\n

Jeff Mach has been writing for three decades, and his\u00a0tales are always delightfully wicked.\u00a0 Whether he\u2019s looking at science fiction, fantasy, or just pure villainy, he knows his stuff, and he lines his stories with it.\u00a0 I HATE Your Prophecy<\/em> looks at what it looks like to be the dark lord, and how things like chosen ones and prophecies and so-called destiny can make life miserable.\u00a0 Written with the same kind of panache as Neil Gaiman or Douglas Adams novels, this book will have you in stitches, even while it raises some interesting questions.<\/p>\n

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The Dark Lord Alice would be\u00a0much\u00a0happier if she\u2019d gone mad. Unfortunately, as far as Alice can tell,\u00a0she\u2019s\u00a0still a rational being\u2014as rational as any Human, at any rate\u2014but the damn\u00a0World\u00a0has clearly, unabashedly gone\u00a0completely damn bonkers.<\/em><\/p>\n

It gets worse, of course.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Things are about to get weird, dark, sorcerous, and very complicated, and all we have is a sense of humor, a strange plot, and unlikely assortment of oddly-recruited Chosen Ones…<\/em><\/p>\n

Now, Alice, with the aid of a handful of former Chosen Ones need to figure out what the\u00a0Hell\u00a0to do when all the\u00a0other\u00a0sentients on their planet seem determined to redecorate the planet entirely with cinders.<\/em><\/p>\n

As far as Alice can see, there\u2019s only one thing they\u00a0can\u00a0do:<\/em><\/p>\n

Die. Horribly.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Dark Lord has been a solitary creature all her life; but she knows that she doesn\u2019t have an answer. So she\u2019s decided to train some of her ex-murderers in the Arts of Magic, and hopefully, between the four of them, they\u2019ll come up with\u00a0something.<\/em><\/p>\n

Each of them was Prophesied to be the one who\u2019d wipe out the Dark Lord. The Prophecy lied. And if Destiny doesn\u2019t control their lives, then\u00a0they\u00a0do. They have the chance to save themselves, and maybe some of the World, as well.<\/em><\/p>\n

Granted, it seems a\u00a0whole\u00a0lot more likely that they\u2019ll just be char-broiled when the mobs finally come to tear down the Dark Keep.<\/em><\/p>\n

But we\u2019ll see. If Destiny\u2019s not running the show, then\u00a0anything\u00a0could happen\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

If you’re looking for a book that is very aware of itself, this could be the one for you.\u00a0 It breaks down walls, not the least is which the fourth wall where the book seems to talk directly to the reader.\u00a0 Mach expertly crafts an experience for his audience that explores issues in the genre and examines what happens when those issues are torn out and thrown in the rubbish bin.\u00a0 It’s exciting to take something tried and true and step outside of the formula.\u00a0 If that’s the kind of thing that grips you, look no further.\u00a0 Check out I HATE Your Prophecy<\/em><\/a> on Amazon today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Greetings!\u00a0 While we often take a look at fantasies, it’s not so often that they’re built around satire and dry wit.\u00a0 Cue today’s critiquing novel, I HATE Your Prophecy, which draws back the curtain and observes tons of tropes and cliches from the fantasy genre, and puts it under the lens of an interesting, sardonic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[463,145,462],"tags":[872,2177,2176,379,2178],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Featured-I-Hate-Your-Prophecy.png","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1UVey-61m","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23157,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23148\/revisions\/23157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}