Smoke and Stone

A priest of Cloud Serpent, Akachi is a temple-trained sorcerer tasked with bringing peace to the rebellious Dirts of the outer ring.

Drawn into a dark and violent world of assassins, banished gods, and street sorcerers, he battles the spreading influence of Mother Death, the Destroyer of Worlds.

The gods are once again at war.

Smoke and Stone is post-apocalyptic fantasy magnificence...

Set in a unique and finely crafted world decimated by war, rich in both history and beliefs evocative of Mesoamerican culture, this story is suffused with ageless deities of endless monikers determined to topple the current structure of the pantheon.

These renewed and ongoing battles between fickle gods threaten to trigger bloodshed between men, revealing well-kept secrets that will surely shatter the fabric of society.

Devoted priesthoods and heretical assassins, savage street-magic fueled by carefully formulated concoctions of narcotics and divine will, public sacrificial rituals to appease blood-thirsty gods, the world-building in this book is both astonishing and impeccable.

It's unapologetic. It will make you uncomfortable. It might even offend you. Please don't let that stop you. Art shouldn't be comfortable. Good art should be the exact opposite, and this book delivers.

It is a dark tale full of unconventional ideas with that special kind of madness that only Fletcher can provide.

If you’re looking for some lovey-dovey adventure with knights and castles and kingdoms to be conquered, then stay away from this. But if you, like me have a taste for the inherently dark, then I advise you to start this journey. It will most certainly be worth it at the end.

Gritty and unrelenting. A great read.