Daniel Faust Series By Craig Shaefer

The Daniel Faust series are a series of novels by Craig Shaefer the American novelist best known for fantasy and horror crime fiction titles such the Harmony Black and the Revancha Cycle series. Schaefer published the first novel in the series The Long Way Down in 2014 and has never looked back since. After the first novel attained much critical success and massive popularity with the fans Schaefer turned prolific churning out six more titles in the series within the year. Daniel Faust is no hero and is best described as a sorcerer, thief, card-carrying villain trying to make a dishonest living in Sin City. Unlike your ordinary villain, Faust does not have to engage in investigations or look for trouble, as it seems to always find him. He uses
The series comes with unbelievable and detailed combat sequences that will have the fantasy fiction reader drooling. Even as Craig Schaefer incorporates magic in the series, it is not the earth shattering, powerful, or inexhaustible supply found in similar novels. The magic fits as a weapon right alongside Faust’s exceptional combat skills. Faust is not one to pull some satellite from the heavens but woe to you if you cornered him in an alley. Over the course of the series, the author introduces romance and writes quite well confusing and complicated relationships that Faust and the other characters go through. Just like in real life, the characters have complicated social politics and motivations, which lead them to obsess, worry, and doubt, making them even more human. Even as he writes well about romance, it is with the world building that Schaefer really excels. The universe in the Daniel Faust series is quite creepy and dark. The Garden of Eden is one concept that Schaefer takes from mythology to give it innovative twists that make it very interesting. The author is understated in his descriptions of the world even as he is detailed. The horrors of the shadows and darkness are implicit and suggestive, which makes for hair-raising