{"id":9311,"date":"2017-02-21T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T13:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/?p=9311"},"modified":"2017-02-19T22:15:35","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T03:15:35","slug":"review-relics-by-tim-lebbon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/review-relics-by-tim-lebbon\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: &#8216;Relics&#8217; by Tim Lebbon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Relics-Tim-Lebbon\/dp\/1785650300\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1483321198&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=relics+tim+lebbon\" target=\"_blank\"><em><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9312\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/review-relics-by-tim-lebbon\/relics\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/relics.jpg?fit=317%2C499&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"317,499\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"relics\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/relics.jpg?fit=317%2C499&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9312\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/relics.jpg?resize=222%2C350&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/relics.jpg?resize=222%2C350&amp;ssl=1 222w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/relics.jpg?w=317&amp;ssl=1 317w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 85vw, 222px\" \/>Relics\u00a0<\/em>by\u00a0Tim Lebbon<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Titan Books\u00a0(March 21, 2017)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>336\u00a0pages; $9.76 paperback; $9.99 e-book<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Reviewed by\u00a0Dave Simms<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first literary hit of the new year has been born. Tim Lebbon, no stranger to penning stories which shrug off the shackles of genre, has hit 2017 hard with the first of a breathtaking trilogy. Equal parts thriller, horror, and fantasy, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Relics<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> takes readers back to his best world creating in the apocalyptic <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Silence<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Coldbrook<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Nature of Balance,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> along with the more fantastic in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fallen<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Echo City<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A dark market exists in this world, a place where items can be bought and sold, items which hearken back to &#8220;The Time,&#8221; a period of hidden history unknown to most of humanity, except those who seek to collect its artifacts at all costs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Angela Gough lives a quiet existence with lover Vince, who is more than he seems. When he disappears, she fears the mundane: a new lover, an accident, or even murder. What she discovers is anything but. Another world exists, one which she needs to become part of if she has any chance of retrieving him alive. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She discovers allies in this journey, the human ones possibly more deadly than the others she cannot understand, partnerships which just might kill her, with everyone promising to be the savior of her lover. However, all of them have agendas which run darker than blood. When she teams up with the most unlikely partners, she begins a journey into the darkness where creatures live, both in the shadows and right under our noses, some wishing for peace while others seek our destruction. What Angela finds shatters her view of reality, unveiling a new world converging with ours, one which might spell disaster for all of mankind in her quest to find her love.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Relics<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Tim Lebbon has created yet another wonderful world for readers to lose themselves in, one which will likely remind them of both Neil Gaiman and Clive Barker, yet speeding them along with the thrilling pace of James Rollins or John Connelly. Lebbon&#8217;s writing, as always, seduces the reader, inviting them into his imagination, while they find themselves immersed in the fantastic, horrific roller-coaster ride which ends too soon. Thankfully, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Relics<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> will have two sequels to complete the journey.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Highly recommended. If you weren&#8217;t a fan of Tim Lebbon before, this will likely be the novel to change your mind. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relics\u00a0by\u00a0Tim Lebbon Titan Books\u00a0(March 21, 2017) 336\u00a0pages; $9.76 paperback; $9.99 e-book Reviewed by\u00a0Dave Simms The first literary hit of the new year has been born. Tim Lebbon, no stranger to penning stories which shrug off the shackles of genre, has hit 2017 hard with the first of a breathtaking trilogy. Equal parts thriller, horror, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/review-relics-by-tim-lebbon\/\" class=\"more-link button bg-gold white\">Continue Reading!<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Review: &#8216;Relics&#8217; by Tim Lebbon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[80],"tags":[715,1014,79,376,547],"class_list":["post-9311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-dave-simms","tag-relics","tag-reviews","tag-tim-lebbon","tag-titan-books"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Review: &#039;Relics&#039; 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