Review: Warlight, by Michael Ondaatje

Warlight by Michael Ondaatje My rating: 5 of 5 stars Ondaatje’s Warlight is a masterfully crafted post-WWII intrigue, rife with subtlety and elegant prose, brilliant characters with shady histories. It is a story about secrets, both personal and national, about nuance and perception, and the sometimes ambiguity of relationships. Nathaniel and his sister find themselves placed into the care of a somewhat disreputable, spider-like character known only to them as The Moth, a benevolently neglectful,…

The Rose Guardian, first chapter

To whet your curiosity, I thought I’d post the first chapter of my newest novel, The Rose Guardian.  Maybe, if you find it intriguing enough, you’ll go and purchase a copy of your own to read, either trade paperback or ebook. Endings I realize now innocence, once lost, can never be retrieved. We yearn. We search. But that search is vain; only the vestiges of what we once had remains. It was of innocence I thought…