Overview: Scarred by author Jon Richter, tells the story of where in an impossible world that even time has forsaken, a servant undertakes an epic quest across a plague-ravaged landscape.

Verdict: Scarred is an epic fantasy story set in a mist-shrouded and desolate world. The denizens of the Enclave are trapped inside their crumbling city, tormented by the terrible plague that swirls within the fog beyond its walls, utterly reliant upon the kindness of their inscrutable god for survival.

But when their deity’s mysterious, food-bearing emissaries cease to appear, the Enclave threatens to descend into chaos and starvation.

Now Freya, a brave but lowly servant, must journey across the barren landscape in search of salvation for her people. Her adventure will bring her face to face with courageous knights, terrifying dragons, monstrous giants and enigmatic wizards, and ultimately with her god himself.

But nothing will prepare Freya for the truth about her scarred world - or for the shocking revelations unearthed from her own past.

In what is known to now be a wondrously effective sci-fi novel that was born out of Covid isolation, the author Jon Richter has brought forth a truly captivating, entertaining, and genuinely thought-provoking (the more you get into it) prose that one could easily see being made into a sci-fi short for the Twilight Zone series or some such TV show of that ilk.

The writer of dark fiction in a variety of genres, including critically acclaimed crime thrillers, horror, science fiction and fantasy, what Scarred brings to the table here is a sci-fi/fantasy tale, that also grips knowingly to a dark side as it progresses, and one where multiple twists and turns will most assuredly keep you guessing about the final outcome.

Evoking classic quest sagas such as The Wizard of Oz and Stephen King’s Dark Tower series, with a dash of Kazuo Ichiguro’s The Buried Giant and Hugh Howey’s Wool, Scarred balances stirring prose with a fast pace and gripping narrative, whilst at the same time daring you to put the book down at the end of each chapter (which you shouldn’t, and should indeed just slide seamlessly into the new one each time!).

About the Author - Jon Richter lives in London, where he writes dark fiction thrillers encompassing crime, science fiction, horror and fantasy. His first novel, Deadly Burial, was published by Harper Collins, and he has since published five more novels and three other horror anthologies.

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