Reviews
A powerful and assured debut novel, featuring gritty realism, skilled characterization, and compelling storytelling., The gritty reality of medieval warfare is all the more believable against [a] backdrop... whose magic is rooted in folklore., Â"A powerful and assured debut novel, featuring gritty realism, skilled characterization, and compelling storytelling, set against the backdrop of a mythos that has the ring of primordial truth.Â" --Jacqueline Carey onIn the Eye of Heaven Â"A very intelligent book, with a hero who starts out as raw and physical as the world in which he finds himself but who proves able to use his mind to get out of the situations his body's gotten him into.Â" --David Drake onIn the Eye of Heaven Â"In David Keck's new fantasy , the gritty reality of medieval warfare is all the more believable against the backdrop of an Otherworld whose magic is rooted in folklore.Â" --Diana L. Paxson onIn the Eye of Heaven Â"The world and its cultures that Keck unveils inIn the Eye of Heavenare brutal and raw, and through it all the reader senses a fierce authenticity, a depth of knowledge in the author assuring that every detail every nuance, is precisely as it should be. This novel marks the debut of an exceptional series, revealing the mythical depth and resonance possible with in the genre of fantasy--a rare feat these days." --Steven Erikson, author ofGardens of the Moon, Marks the debut of an exceptional series, revealing the mythical depth and resonance possible within the genre of fantasy., "A powerful and assured debut novel, featuring gritty realism, skilled characterization, and compelling storytelling, set against the backdrop of a mythos that has the ring of primordial truth." --Jacqueline Carey on In the Eye of Heaven "A very intelligent book, with a hero who starts out as raw and physical as the world in which he finds himself but who proves able to use his mind to get out of the situations his body's gotten him into." --David Drake on In the Eye of Heaven "In David Keck's new fantasy , the gritty reality of medieval warfare is all the more believable against the backdrop of an Otherworld whose magic is rooted in folklore." --Diana L. Paxson on In the Eye of Heaven "The world and its cultures that Keck unveils in In the Eye of Heaven are brutal and raw, and through it all the reader senses a fierce authenticity, a depth of knowledge in the author assuring that every detail every nuance, is precisely as it should be. This novel marks the debut of an exceptional series, revealing the mythical depth and resonance possible with in the genre of fantasy--a rare feat these days." --Steven Erikson, author of Gardens of the Moon, "A powerful and assured debut novel, featuring gritty realism, skilled characterization, and compelling storytelling, set against the backdrop of a mythos that has the ring of primordial truth." --Jacqueline Carey on "In the Eye of Heaven" "A very intelligent book, with a hero who starts out as raw and physical as the world in which he finds himself but who proves able to use his mind to get out of the situations his body's gotten him into." --David Drake on "In the Eye of Heaven" "In David Keck's new fantasy, the gritty reality of medieval warfare is all the more believable against the backdrop of an Otherworld whose magic is rooted in folklore." --Diana L. Paxson on "In the Eye of Heaven" "The world and its cultures that Keck unveils in "In the Eye of Heaven "are brutal and raw, and through it all the reader senses a fierce authenticity, a depth of knowledge in the author assuring that every detail every nuance, is precisely as it should be. This novel marks the debut of an exceptional series, revealing the mythical depth and resonance possible with in the genre of fantasy--a rare feat these days." --Steven Erikson, author of "Gardens of the Moon", "A powerful and assured debut novel, featuring gritty realism, skilled characterization, and compelling storytelling, set against the backdrop of a mythos that has the ring of primordial truth." --Jacqueline Carey on In the Eye of Heaven "A very intelligent book, with a hero who starts out as raw and physical as the world in which he finds himself but who proves able to use his mind to get out of the situations his body's gotten him into." --David Drake on In the Eye of Heaven "In David Keck's new fantasy, the gritty reality of medieval warfare is all the more believable against the backdrop of an Otherworld whose magic is rooted in folklore." --Diana L. Paxson on In the Eye of Heaven "The world and its cultures that Keck unveils in In the Eye of Heaven are brutal and raw, and through it all the reader senses a fierce authenticity, a depth of knowledge in the author assuring that every detail every nuance, is precisely as it should be. This novel marks the debut of an exceptional series, revealing the mythical depth and resonance possible with in the genre of fantasy--a rare feat these days." --Steven Erikson, author of Gardens of the Moon
