I’ve been on a run of captivating self-published novels, and The Fall is All There is was no exception. The is grimdark meets palace intrigue with its own unique twists and turns. Something like Prince of Thorns meets The Goblin Emperor. There’s a lot going on that Caplan takes time to reveal to us without it feeling info dumpy, but ultimately this story is a family drama.

The dynamics between Petre Mercy and his siblings are what make this novel go. Amidst the palace intrigue, the cyborg horses, and the possessed humans we encounter on the road, we have a family that doesn’t trust each other, with a broken past, a mess present, and a future I’m yearning to find out more about.

Petre trusts none of them and yet is now in the middle of everything… and he though he ostensibly resents that, he also appears to long to trust them all. At every turn he is hoping they’ll open up to him and be honest about everything… he’s always disappointed, but to be fair, he’s not exactly an open book to them either.

I’ve bloviated long enough, because there are some stellar reviews out there of this book that will get you more excited than mine. This one from Andy Peloquin absolutely blew me away and if I wasn’t already mid novel when he wrote it, I’d have quickly moved it to the top of the pile.

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