Vellum: The Book of All Hours

This book is the best fiction I've read in quite some time. I'm not ashamed to admit that I've reread it at least once, and was subsequently rewarded by noticing a host of additional details that I did not pick up on the first time through. A priceless work of literature, in my opinion. This novel affected me on a personal level.

All of that aside, it is NOT an easy book to read. The main characters exist in a state where time and place, even reality itself, is fluid and dynamic. Reading their story can be confusing when it periodically shifts into a different reality that is incredibly different while retaining the same or similar relationship between characters. Of course, that was part of what made it so enjoyable, for me.

I'm a big fan of stories that revolve around books of power, arcane tomes, or codexes of lost lore. This is the king of such books, hands down. A book about a book should be powerful grist for the blogging generation. The Book of All Hours is such a book.

What if, in the beginning, God dictated reality to his scribe, including the journeys and meetings of those with power. The Word of God, transcribed as a future map of history. And if the Word of God were to be changed...? How else would you propose to escape the fate decreed for you?

Of course, it is not an easy task to understand the written Word of God, if that is, indeed, what it is. But it is another matter entirely to learn how to speak it yourself. And then, would you not be as God, yourself?

Follow Phreedom Messenger and Seamus Finnan as they travel through mythology in a quest to escape fate, and to escape being forced to choose a side in a war between gods.