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David McK (3832 KP) rated The Golem in Books

May 8, 2021  
The Golem
The Golem
Orlando A. Sanchez | 2021
6
6.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Book number 10 in Orlando Sanchez's 'Montage and Strong' series, and - much like Simon Strong - I'm beginning to feel lost with just what is going on.

According to Wikipedia:

"A golem is an animated anthropomorphic being in Jewish folklore that is created entirely from inanimate matter (usually clay or mud) ... The most famous golem narrative involves Judah Loew ben Bezalel, the late-16th-century rabbi of Prague"

Modern readers might be more familiar with them from their inclusion in the later entries in Terry Pratchett's superlative Discworld series.

In this one, a Golem has been created and is terrorizing select parts of New York, with Montague and Strong called in to deal - reluctantly - with the threat it represents.
  
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Morgan Sheppard (1033 KP) created a post

May 5, 2026  
There's something about two people finding each other in the middle of an impossible task that gets me every time. 🌿 Ewan and Lowri don't come together easily, and I think that's what makes them worth following.

RAVENS AND RUIN is the fifth book in the Brodyr Alarch series, and it's the one where the mythology and the heart of the story pull hardest in the same direction 🤍 Welsh gods, Brothers Grimm folklore, and a quest that asks more than either of them expected to give.

Which do you love more in a fantasy romance, the slow burn or the moment it finally breaks? 🖤

#Fantasy #Romance #WelshGods #FairytaleRetelling #BrothersGrimm #BrodyrAlarch5
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Morgan Sheppard (1033 KP) created a post

May 18, 2026  
Some stories begin long before the characters know they've started 🌊

Ariandwyn, the ancient goddess who waits between hill and sea, has been keeping her promises for longer than anyone remembers, and when Talise arrives at Llyn Du looking for answers she can measure, she finds something she can't.

STILL WATERS, DEEP is a standalone Welsh folklore romance about a love that feels fated without ever feeling forced. Tender and unhurried, with old magic sitting quietly underneath everything.

Do you find yourself drawn to romances where destiny plays a hand, or do you prefer love that's entirely chosen? 💙

#FantasyRomance #WelshFolklore #MythicFiction #MagicalRealism #StandaloneRomance #BetweenHillAndSea

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Debbiereadsbook (1777 KP) rated Wolf of the Nordic Seas (Valiant Vikings #2) in Books

May 19, 2025  
Wolf of the Nordic Seas (Valiant Vikings #2)
Wolf of the Nordic Seas (Valiant Vikings #2)
Jennifer Ivy Walker | 2025 | Romance, Science Fiction/Fantasy
6
6.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
as well as the Viking folklore, we got a paranormal element too!
Independent reviewer for Archaeolibrarian, I was gifted my copy of this book.

This is book 2 in the Valiant Vikings series. While not strictly necessary, I think it would be beneficial to read book one, Dragon of Denmark, before this one. It will give you a better view of this world, how it works and of the author's writing style.

I enjoyed book one, but for the repetitive descriptions of runes and things. That is why I found this a much more . . .difficult(?) . . .read.

The repeating of what runes are for, what the stones are for, and who did what and when takes up a huge portion of this book. I found myself skimming paragraphs just to get back to the story. I didn't feel I missed anything by doing so, either!

I did like that Elfi and Njord both have the majority voice. I loved that we hear again from the bad guy, and how they go about getting what they want. I do love it when well laid out plans don't come to pass for the bad guy!

What I really liked, though, was as well as the Viking folklore, we got a paranormal element too! Mermaids, werewolves, light and dark elves. I loved the way it was all seamlessly meddled together!

A good read, but one I did struggle with. Some of that was the repetition, and some me (I have *stuff* going on!)

3 very good stars

*same worded review will appear elsewhere
  
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Morgan Sheppard (1033 KP) created a post

Jun 19, 2026  
It's #FolkloreFriday!!! 😁

The lake maidens of Welsh folklore are among the most quietly subversive figures in the entire tradition, and I don't think they get nearly enough credit for it.

The most complete story is that of Llyn y Fan Fach, the black lake in the Bannau Brycheiniog, where a young farmer encounters a woman of extraordinary beauty sitting on the water's surface. She agrees to marry him under precise conditions, three times stated, three blows without cause, and she returns to the lake. The blows come, as they always do in these stories, not from cruelty but from misunderstanding, from the vast distance between what a mortal considers reasonable and what she does. And she goes back. She takes her cattle, her gifts, everything she brought with her, and the lake closes over her as though she had never left it.

What strikes me most, returning to this story again and again, is that she is never a victim of it. She came on her own terms. She stated her conditions clearly. When they were broken, she enforced them, calmly and completely, and went home. The grief in the story belongs entirely to the mortal side of it. The lake maiden simply returned to where she had always, more fully, belonged.

Welsh water mythology understands something that a lot of folklore doesn't quite manage. That the otherworldly woman is not a prize or a tragedy. She is sovereign, and the water was always hers. 🌊

#FolkloreFriday #TalesFromWales #WelshFolklore