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Published 2024 by Titan Books Limited.
It’s bad enough waking up in a half-destroyed evil wizard’s workshop with no eyebrows, no memories, and no idea how long you have before the Dread Lord Whomever shows up to murder you horribly and then turn your skull into a goblet or something.
It’s a lot worse when you realize that Dread Lord Whomever is… you.
Gav isn’t really sure how he ended up with a castle full of goblins, or why he has a princess locked in a cell. All he can do is play along with his own evil plan in hopes of getting his memories back before he gets himself killed.
But as he realizes that nothing – from the incredibly tasteless cloak adorned with flames to the aforementioned princess – is quite what it seems, Gav must face up to all the things the Dread Lord Gavrax has done. And he’ll have to answer the …
It’s bad enough waking up in a half-destroyed evil wizard’s workshop with no eyebrows, no memories, and no idea how long you have before the Dread Lord Whomever shows up to murder you horribly and then turn your skull into a goblet or something.
It’s a lot worse when you realize that Dread Lord Whomever is… you.
Gav isn’t really sure how he ended up with a castle full of goblins, or why he has a princess locked in a cell. All he can do is play along with his own evil plan in hopes of getting his memories back before he gets himself killed.
But as he realizes that nothing – from the incredibly tasteless cloak adorned with flames to the aforementioned princess – is quite what it seems, Gav must face up to all the things the Dread Lord Gavrax has done. And he’ll have to answer the hardest question of all – who does he want to be?
A high fantasy farce featuring killer moat squid, toxic masculinity, an evil wizard convocation, and a garlic festival. All at once. All in all, Dread Lord Gavrax has had better weeks.
A dark wizard wakes up with his memories missing, a captured princess, and a castleful of goblins working for him. From here he has to discover who he was and who he wants to be. It was an enjoyable read and I love a decent antihero story.
Gav is in an awkward and dangerous position at the beginning of Caitlin Rozakis’s highly entertaining novel, Dreadful. The lack of eyebrows and the magical detritus around him are the only clues to explain why Gav has no idea who he is or what he was doing. He only learns his name, the Dread Lord Gavrax, when one of his goblin servants says it. What is a dark wizard supposed to do with no memory, a kidnapped princess in his dungeon, heroes bearing down on his castle, and servants who believe he might immolate them at any moment?
Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type.
