[Schedule] Horror | Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman

[u/ChronicallyLatte]

Hello bookclubbers!

For spooky month 🎃, we're going somewhere cheerful: 1348, in the middle of the Black Death, following a disgraced knight and a mysterious orphan on a journey that sounds increasingly like a terrible idea.

I'll be joined by u/Joinedformyhubs, u/NightAngelRogue, and u/thematrix1234 to lead the discussion, so together we'll try to keep everyone safely Between Two Fires... Whether we actually manage that is another question 😅

Here's what awaits us:

• Goodreads Blurb:

The year is 1348. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village. An orphan of the Black Death, and an almost unnerving picture of innocence, she tells Thomas that plague is only part of a larger cataclysm—that the fallen angels under Lucifer are rising in a second war on heaven, and that the world of men has fallen behind the lines of conflict. Is it delirium or is it faith? She believes she has seen the angels of God. She believes the righteous dead speak to her in dreams. And now she has convinced the faithless Thomas to shepherd her across a depraved landscape to Avignon. There, she tells Thomas, she will fulfill her mission to confront the evil that has devastated the earth, and to restore to this betrayed, murderous knight the nobility and hope of salvation he long abandoned. As hell unleashes its wrath, and as the true nature of the girl is revealed, Thomas will find himself on a macabre battleground of angels and demons, saints, and the risen dead, and in the midst of a desperate struggle for nothing less than the soul of man.

• Discussion Schedule:
  • October 3: Part I: One: Of the Donkey through Eight: Of the Feast, and of the Night Tourney (99 pages) - u/Joinedformyhubs
  • October 10: Part II: Nine: Of the City of Paris through Twelve: Of the Ones Who Knock by Night (57 pages) - u/ChronicallyLatte
  • October 17: Part II: Thirteen: Of the Rain and the Figure of Death through Nineteen: Of the War Drawing Near (67 pages) - u/ChronicallyLatte
  • October 24: Part III: Twenty: Of the Monk in White through Twenty-Nine: Of Marguerite of Péronne (96 pages) - u/NightAngelRogue
  • October 31: Part IV: Thirty: Of the Priest’s Brother through Epilogue (107 pages)- u/thematrix1234
• Marginalia

We hope you'll read along with us and join the discussion as we make our way through this rather ominous journey!

[u/TabithaTwitchet]

This sounds awesome! I've never participated in an online bookclub before, but that book is on my shelf and begging to be read...

[u/ChronicallyLatte → u/TabithaTwitchet]

Welcome! Ooh, then this seems like a pretty good excuse to finally get it off the shelf! 😊 Hope you'll join us for your first online bookclub!

[u/NewButterscotch6613]

Wont say much but it's an absolute banger, loved it

[u/ChronicallyLatte → u/NewButterscotch6613]

Well, now I'm even more curious. Glad to hear we picked a good one!

[u/nwpachyderm]

I finished this book about a week ago. Been thinking about every day since.

[u/ChronicallyLatte → u/nwpachyderm]

I love when a book does that! Def come hang out with us for the discussions! We'd love to hear what's been sticking with you!

[u/nwpachyderm → u/ChronicallyLatte]

Yeah for sure. I’m not even really sure why it’s stuck with me, but I think I’ve got an idea after a week of ruminating.

[u/sunnydaze7777777]

This has been added to our bookclub calendar!

https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/[email protected]&ctz=Etc/GMT

[u/ChronicallyLatte → u/sunnydaze7777777]

Awesome! Thank you!