Once again Buehlman delivers a dark disturbing read. Having loved The Necromancer's House I was hoping that it wasn't a one off. Apparently not. 
 Buehlman has a way to keep you on edge, he always seems to be able to push the line of uncomfortable creepy and then backs you away with some relief dialogue between characters. 
 There is nothing soft and fluffy with this story, it is pure apocalypse, but 14th century France apocalypse. With a big religious back bone of good versus evil, long bow men, fighting angels, buggering priests and fireplace crotch warmed zombies, oh and your not quite so typical Knight in somewhat rusty armour. 
 As usual, the language can be feral, if you have read Necromancers House you'll know he doesn't hold back, it still has me squirming at times, but I do find that the use of language is always pertinent to the moment. He doesn't waste profanity, it is there to build the scene and he does it very well. 
 I have a shelf called dark fantasy, where I put this, but it isn't dark fantasy compared to what other books I rated as that. I should make a new shelf called 'horror fantasy', because this is how he writes. It can be disturbing, uncomfortable and utterly rewarding reading his books, because it puts me in a place I find different to almost all the other books I read and that has to be good!