If you read it for what it is, which is a lurid, tawdry slab of male-gaze reading that is a relic of a different time, then you are going to enjoy every second of this wild, wood-wose-infested ride. I am not exaggerating when I say that Tanith is good. There is no novel quite like Tanith and it simply must be read. Nude women heave and undulate on the back of airborne rams, the many names of Satan are invoked, 90-something widows plot and scheme, and hot girl-on-girl is but a mere prelude to a Satanic Brit-squatch orgy. How is she going to do this? By finding another, more naive witch and easing her into it with hot lesbian action.
The lissome, sensual Tanith is a wing woman for British Bigfoot. They are big, hairy, hide in the forests. Wait, did you just ask what's a wood-wose? I'm glad you asked! The wood-wose is a cryptid with sightings in Great Britain going back centuries. In the next chapter, Tanith Rowan - the witch who was just climaxing all over the place in the first scene - makes a pact with the wood-woses to find them a suitable human woman to help them repopulate their dying race. The novel opens with a very graphic sex magic scene that removes any doubt that this novel is going to be the acme of exploitative, gratuitous 70's British sex horror. Shackleford is that novelist and Tanith Rowan is that fictional woman! Let's look inside. Isn't "lissome" a great word? It means "thin, supple, and graceful." But it just sounds like a word that a horny guy novelist would use while trying to describe a horny woman. It warns of "slaves of Satan" who are "unequivocally male" who are determined to survive with the help of "the lissome, sensual Tanith!"
If the sight of a naked woman orgasming on the back of a flying, bat-winged ram while a red-robed Reaper grinds on her from behind doesn't make you the least bit curious about the book's contents, then are you really even alive? As for the blurb on the back cover, its text is no less tawdry than the front cover's visuals. After all, I may be metal AF but I'm not going to wear a shirt with art from a book I haven't read!įirst of all, let's just take a moment to appreciate Tanith's cover art. When I discovered that the artwork on that shirt was also the cover art (by fantasy art legend Christos Ahciellos, no less,) of this obscure occult horror novel, I became obsessed with obtaining and reading it. A few years ago I attended a concert by the heavy metal band Night Demon and bought a t-shirt.
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