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The Tower of Zhaal Cthulhu Armageddon Book 2 eBook C T Phipps

The stars came right. The great old ones awoke. The world ended...but not without a fight.

Once more unto the breach with C. T. Phipps' CTHULHU ARMAGEDDON setting! An "after the end" military/survivalist tale set in the aftermath of the Lovecraftian apocalypse. Phipps takes his cue, fairly enough, from Lovecraft's most action-oriented story "The Dunwich Horror," Brian Lumley's Titus Crow tales, and the Call of Cthulhu Roleplaying Game. While no less bleak than many more "traditional" Lovecraftian stories, Phipps has taken to heart Terry Pratchett's axiom that "sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness."

While probably not going to appeal to anyone looking for a more familiar Mythos narrative, there is something satisfying in reading a story that, having abandoned the constraints of the old format, gleefully embraces what it is without pretensions or a backwards glance. A few of the familiar boxes are checked: the stakes are higher. The cast is stranger. The Big C, as promised, makes an appearance. The plot moves forward, the Mythos references come heavy, but always with a twist. The story moves on its own internal logic, not just a series of violent episodes stitched together by episodes of endless moping. This is Cthulhu Mythos action-adventure fiction written along the lines of the latter-day Bureau of Paranormal Defense (B.P.R.D.) comic books or Metal Gear Solid; content to be gritty and cool without wallowing in the grimdark self-importance or cheap exploitation of sex and violence. The kind of book that could go well with a death metal soundtrack.


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The Tower of Zhaal Cthulhu Armageddon Book 2 eBook C T Phipps Reviews

Lovecraft meets the Road Warrior. I liked the way the entity possessing the MC was portrayed, as well as Nylarthotep.
CT Phipps really knows his Mythos! This was a great set of books to get and read. Usually after a Book 1, I lose interest. However, Cthulhu Arma. just sticks in your head just because the author uses Lovecraft's creatures in such in-depth and unusual ways. Please write a Book 3!!!
The first book, for all its cosmic trappings, was essentially still a pretty standard Western in a lot of ways. This book ups the stakes considerably. Booth isn't just fighting a megalomaniac, but actually battling cosmic horrors. I'm not certain how to say more without spoiling the plot, but not only is humanity at stake, but so is Booth's. And, well, it just might be a doomed battle on both counts.

The disjointedness is in part a consequence of these higher stakes. Characters who would be the main hero of their own stories, legends of their time, are introduced and die just as easily. Journeys are compressed as time and space are warped. It's a bit disorienting, but I think it fits the genre.
I'm reviewing the audio edition, though I loved it so much that I picked up the ebook copy too.

I loved the first book in this series, and the sequel did not disappoint. I admit, I squeed like a fangirl when I saw this one published. It picks up a little bit after the end of the first, and we're back again with the hero, John Henry Booth. He's somewhat more than human now, and he and his lover Mercury are recruited to kill someone to prevent the end of the world.

The plot is not quite that simple, and the author really throws a lot of philosophy in there, many questionable choices, the whole Lovecraftian pantheon, and just so much more. It's an enjoyable listen, made even more so by the talented narrator Jeffrey Kafer. Kafer's deep, gravelly voice matches the lead character so perfectly that even when the prose did get a little overwrought and might have sounded silly, Kafer's deep voice brings a seriousness and poignancy to the narration which really makes you feel for the lead, bringing the stark reality of the world to life.

If you haven't listened to the first one, do so, but I think this sequel could probably stand on its own as well.
The Tower of Zhaal by C.T. Phipps is an undeniably fun mixture of sci-fi anime + a romping indie horror video game + 1981’s Heavy Metal. I don’t make the reference to Heavy Metal lightly – if there was a cartoon adaptation of this novel, it’d be a wrecking ball.

The Tower of Zhaal is the second installment in C.T. Phipps Cthulhu Armageddon series. It follows a band of unlikely anti-heroes across a desolate future-earth ravaged by the Rising of the Great Old Ones. But there are worse fates than living in the ruins of a world destroyed by cosmic horrors – and a final devouring terror yet to be unleashed. Phipps’s ragged renegades, assembled together like the Seven Samurai meeting the end of the world, are all that stand between what’s left of mankind and the awakening of the last sleeping Great Old One – an act that promises the final oblivion for a dying world.

The Tower of Zhaal is fast-paced, witty, and darkly comedic, swinging snark like a hatchet. So when it comes in with the occasional backswing and takes the apocalyptic subject matter with sudden sincerity, it catches you off guard. There are surprising islands of seriousness throughout, reachable via stepping stones of black humor. Very reminiscent of the tone of Zombieland that way.

The book is steeped in enough crunchy Mythos lore that you might find yourself piecing together a red-string conspiracy wall to keep track of it all and going back for other colors of string. In a good way. Crazy things happen at the intersection of the red, green, and pink strings.

Which also makes me think Phipp’s Cthulhu Armageddon saga would make an excellent graphic novel or comic adaptation. The otherworldly, alien, perception-bending (and sometimes grotesque) imagery would be one hell of a thing to lay on a guy with a head full of acid. If ever there were pages of a book (or comic) that might start whispering and wiggling noodling appendages at you while you stare at them, this could definitely be the one.

I admit I had difficulty getting into the first book in this series. It had problems settling on tone and theme that I found off-putting. But The Tower of Zhaal definitely outgrew those wobbly legs. If Phipp’s Cthulhu Armageddon series has a “growing the beard” moment – The Tower of Zhaal is it.

Oh, and if you’ve been following this series and wondering when or if Cthulhu himself was ever going to make an appearance… Well… you’ll see. 😉

I’ll be looking forward to the third installment in this series – Azathoth’s Tree – when it lands.

Great popcorn fun – dark, witty, and a Biblical manifesto of Cthulhoid horror. 4-Stars.
The stars came right. The great old ones awoke. The world ended...but not without a fight.

Once more unto the breach with C. T. Phipps' CTHULHU ARMAGEDDON setting! An "after the end" military/survivalist tale set in the aftermath of the Lovecraftian apocalypse. Phipps takes his cue, fairly enough, from Lovecraft's most action-oriented story "The Dunwich Horror," Brian Lumley's Titus Crow tales, and the Call of Cthulhu Roleplaying Game. While no less bleak than many more "traditional" Lovecraftian stories, Phipps has taken to heart Terry Pratchett's axiom that "sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness."

While probably not going to appeal to anyone looking for a more familiar Mythos narrative, there is something satisfying in reading a story that, having abandoned the constraints of the old format, gleefully embraces what it is without pretensions or a backwards glance. A few of the familiar boxes are checked the stakes are higher. The cast is stranger. The Big C, as promised, makes an appearance. The plot moves forward, the Mythos references come heavy, but always with a twist. The story moves on its own internal logic, not just a series of violent episodes stitched together by episodes of endless moping. This is Cthulhu Mythos action-adventure fiction written along the lines of the latter-day Bureau of Paranormal Defense (B.P.R.D.) comic books or Metal Gear Solid; content to be gritty and cool without wallowing in the grimdark self-importance or cheap exploitation of sex and violence. The kind of book that could go well with a death metal soundtrack.