Unspeakable acts committed in the name of revenge

If I told you that NS Toledano is the pseudonym of a secondary school student and that Catalyst is his self-published debut fantasy novella, you’d have every right to go into this review with some major doubts. Reading on will, I hope, dispel many of those doubts, because Catalyst shows both great potential and more than enough quality to make reading it a pleasure.

At the heart of the story is a pair of star-crossed lovers, Sinn Sebber and Ellene Ekkard, who meet as part of a merchant caravan...