Book review: the Unforsaken Hiero

Per Hiero Desteen was alone, weaponless and without food or water, facing the unknown perils of the desert in this grim world, five thousand years after the holocaust known as The Death says Goodreads, and yes The Unforsaken Hiero is one of those sort of books. The area is the US / Canadian border, the Great Lakes, whatever. Millenia have passed, animals and people have evolved in convenient ways, people live in the conventional mediaeval state and so on. I don't know what is in volume one, but in volume two Our Hero and his associates triumph over the terrible evil of the Unclean.

Trivia: Our Hero's miraculous mind powers become inconvenient fairly early on, because with them he is too powerful and plots just wouldn't work, so it is arranged for them to be conveniently removed, whilst quite implausibly leaving him alive.

Trivia: this was apparently to be the middle volume of a trilogy, which probably explains the rather thin end of the my-wife's-kingdom plotline, which all rather happens offscreen. But I do object to the trope of nearly-everyone-except-the-heroine-gets-slaughtered; too many authors think like maniacal despots and think nothing of killing off spear carriers.

There's nothing too engaging about the writing quality, so by the end I was skipping bits because it was convenient to finish it.