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Damon Wolfe is a figment of his own imagination. He is the author of ‘THUNDRHED!’ and writes stories for people to read in the hopes of lifting someone’s day. He writes for readers, that’s all. He has no presence on social media because he doesn’t want one, while casually detesting humanity’s addiction to mobile phones. Nor does he maintain a blog or website, or carefully developed opinions about such things.
His influences include Dr. Seuss, Tolkien, Billy Connolly, Fritz Leiber and his mother, who once pointed out that words in a picture book about cats could be deciphered to tell a story. He’s not Shakespeare or Dostoevsky. Instead, here’s THUNDRHED!, all in caps, with an exclamation point and the spelling’s wrong. It’s meant to be.
He has zero interest in being famous. Zero degrees Kelvin. Having spent years travelling the outback in search of enlightenment, he found it – he’s content minding his own business.
Damon Wolfe’s next book will likely be a novel about pirates entitled ‘The Farthing Bodkin’.
Reviewed by Rich Follett for Readers' Favorite
Thundrhed! by Damon Wolfe has so much to offer fantasy devotees that it is hard to know where to begin to sing its praises. Simply put, its protagonist, Thundrhed, is one of the most intoxicatingly quirky epic heroes ever to grace the pages of a debut in the genre. As Damon Wolfe renders, Thundrhed is equal parts Ragnor Lothbrok, Martha Stewart, MacGyver, and Candide. While these ingredients seem so disparate as to be forever distant, they converge in Thundrhed’s character in unexpected and often touching ways. In his quest to get the better of a local cheapskate (to whom he has been selling the turkeys he raises), Thundrhed sets off to seek his fortune in the wider world, seemingly (and hilariously) unaware of both his startling naiveté and his formidable epic hero skillset. Thundrhed!’s narrative has it all—villains, evil forces, mystic prophecies, treasure, monsters, impossible odds, wrong turns, harrowing brushes with death, a damsel in distress, and even wee dragons.
Damon Wolfe’s writing style is so extraordinary as to border on being magical. Every paragraph of Thundrhed! features a prodigious vocabulary that teeters delightfully on the brink of being florid but never indulges in obfuscation. Thundrhed! seems to have descended from logophile heaven. In addition, the bouquet of mind-bending, laugh-out-loud similes on nearly every page is both intoxicating and addicting. Once begun, Thundrhed! is all but impossible to put down. Fortunately, the text is novella length—suitable for reading in one sitting, although you will want to go back and savor prized passages many times. Damon Wolfe’s Thundrhed! is the rarest kind of quick-witted romp through a literary landscape that is both charmingly preposterous and wickedly ingenious.
