He studied French language and History at Florida State University, graduating in 1994 with a bachelor's degree. He briefly attended the University of Florida that year, then got his associate degree from St. He graduated from Northeast in 1985 at the age of sixteen. He attended Thom Howard Academy, a school for gifted and special needs students, from 1973 until 1982, when he enrolled at Northeast High School as a sophomore. He was subsequently adopted by Joseph and Christeen Buehlman of Saint Petersburg, Florida. Petersburg, Florida.īuehlman was born in Tampa, Florida, in 1969, to an adolescent young woman originally from Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The narration was almost as gripping as the story itself.Christopher Buehlman (born 1969) is a novelist, comedian, playwright, and poet from St. The delivery of dialogue and narrative components were both handled with great attention to detail. Steve West narrated this audiobook almost perfectly. Will the trio arrive where they intend, or will the gates of Hell await them instead. Ghosts appear and disappear, leaving us to wonder which of these apparitions are truly beyond the veil, and which are drawn from the memories of Thomas and the weary priest who joins him on his quest. The dead haunt the living, tormenting them with cruel assertions and distorted recollections of the past. The boundaries of reality are repeatedly blurred throughout the narrative, forcing the reader to question–as Thomas does–whether he’s awake or dreaming. But nothing can prepare him for the madness and cruelty awaiting them on their journey to Avignon. When Thomas, a crude and disgraced knight, takes it upon himself to shelter and protect a young girl–who knows things she should not know and sees things others cannot see–he knows he’s set himself on a path that might end in tragedy. This tableau of terror, both human and spiritual, is the world Buehlman brings to life. Amid this nightmare of disease and human predation, a war unlike any witnessed on Earth was taking place. The survivors, few and far between, were living through horrors no one had ever seen.
Sickness had emptied whole villages, leaving nothing behind but decaying remnants and ghosts that haunted the vacant homes. Christopher Buehlman’s Between Two Fires transports readers to the region now known as France during the peak of the Black Death.
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