Ronan Frost

Thrum is an out-of-work dropout from magic university, frustrated and alone in a world ruled by sorcery and where landlords are backed by eviction ogres. His fate changes the day he happens across a scroll with an Archmage trapped within. The fate of the entire land is at stake as the Archmage struggles for his freedom and demands resurrection.
Driven from his home clad in dressing gown and rabbit shaped slippers Thrum is pursued at every turn by a sect of dark wizards that want the scroll show more for their own evil ends. He must battle against his innate and finely tuned sense of self-preservation (more commonly described as cowardice) to take up the quest and bring the scroll to the very heart of the enemy stronghold. show less

Who Knew A Fictional Character Could Write This Well? In this debut work by fictional character Ronan Frost, we get a solid action/ adventure tale of a man haunted by being on the other end of the phone when his wife is killed in a mass shooting being recruited to find a mysterious map for one of the world's wealthiest men. The action is taut, the mystery is compelling, and the locations include some rarely if ever used in novels before. Truly an outstanding work. Particularly for a show more fictional character.

Here's hoping we get a sequel from this new author far faster than we got the sequel he appears in. ;) show less

Many thanks to NetGalley, St. Martin’s Press, and Ronan Frost for an ARC in exchange for an honest book review of White Peak. My opinions are 100% my own and independent of receiving an advance copy.

Ryerson McKenna has just been through the worst tragedy imaginable. His wife was at the mall when a gunman opened fire. Ryerson was on the phone with her through the whole ordeal. She died while he listened, unable to do a thing about it. He fell into a deep depression and not caring whether he show more lived or died. One day he meets a strange man, with an even stranger offer. Greg Rask, a dying billionaire, has offered a chance for Ryerson to be alone with his wife’s killer for a night. He can exact his revenge any way he wants, but afterward, Ryerson has to work for Rask.

Rask wants Ryerson’s mountain climbing skills for a very special job. Rask has put together a team of specialists to find what he thinks is a cure for his disease. Something that the Nazis discovered and hid away. The team follows clues hidden in a painting that takes them all over the world. The clues lead them to the ancient and magical land of Shambhala. It will be a treacherous journey, made more dangerous by the mystical brotherhood, who have sworn to keep the secret buried.

This was a great adventure story. The way Ryerson gets pulled into this crazy man’s last-ditch effort to avoid dying is a perfect way to kick it off. Each member of the team has their own unique and interesting backstory. They are all specialists of some sort and all a little crazy. They are completely loyal to Rask, having had a personal tragedy that Rask somehow “fixed” for them. They go from one end of the world to the other. The action is exciting and the locations exotic. I was very caught up in this story and read this one straight through. I liked the characters. They had depth and developed nicely as the story advanced. It was similar to an Indiana Jones type adventure, with the Nazis and mysticism. The brotherhood was the perfect bad-guy foil against the team trying to find this magic cure. Ryerson, with his personal demons, made you sympathetic to what he was going through.

I just really enjoyed this one. It was exciting, it was suspenseful, had a lot of heart and was so much fun. It has all the elements of a good story and has something for everyone! show less

This is an antiquated plain-text file wedged lost and tagless for years in the memory banks of the main computer, estimated to be written way back in the mid 2100's. It is a diary of a lonely young man orbiting the moldering ball that is the Earth, himself alone and awake among the Dreamers.