Return of the Sword Reviewed at Black Gate

Return of the Sword just got a great review over at BlackGate.com. Black Gate reviewer Ryan Harvey goes beyond simple summarization to get at the heart of the themes and story elements of the anthology’s nineteen tales, and he does a superb job of explaining to a genre-savvy reader just why he or she might want to give Return of the Sword a try.

Link to Ryan Harvey’s Black Gate review of Return of the Sword

And since my recent immunization against all forms of false modesty, I don’t mind quoting what Ryan had to say about my story:

Grand warfare is at the core of a number of the stories. Bill Ward’s “The Wyrd of War” abandons dialogue completely for a description of an enormous dark fantasy battle. It works as a prolonged prose-poem, and anyone wanting to immerse him or herself in feverish madness will get a thrill from Ward’s headlong action.