A review by 5wamp_creature
Arslan by M.J. Engh

4.0

first, a preteen girl and boy are sodomized in front of the cowering townspeople. Goes downhill after that. Disturbing, depressing and without redemption. Unbelievable, sad and beautifully written. Some bombs of Christianity are dropped early on, but thankfully, turn out to be duds. What does the reader do when main character #2 is raped as a child by a warlord, then made to be the warlord's sex slave and adopted son? Everything the opposite of this story is good. Obviously, an allegory of the Old Testament of the bible.