Craig A. Price Jr.
Autor/a de The Crimson Claymore
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Obres de Craig A. Price Jr.
Space Cats : Making Enemies 2 exemplars
The Obsidian Arrow (Claymore of Calthoria #2) 1 exemplars
Way of Thieves 1 exemplars
The Mage and the Freckled Frog 1 exemplars
Book Marketing for Authors 1 exemplars
Dragonia: Traitor 1 exemplars
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- male
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 22
- També de
- 1
- Membres
- 105
- Popularitat
- #183,191
- Valoració
- 4.1
- Ressenyes
- 26
- ISBN
- 17
- Llengües
- 1
I have finally completed reading 5 SPFBO 2017 books! Yaay!
For better or worse, there doesn't really seem to have much of a plot in this book. Searon is a capable captain that married the daughter of a common criminal and was enjoying semiretirement with Victoria and his son. Almost 2 years before the beginning of the book, a swarm of reptilian humanoid beasts called drayeks invaded his village and murdered his family. Emotionally devastated, he roams the lands of Calthoria killing the beasts until either he dies in battle, or he defeats them all.
He is encountered by a slightly kooky fire wizard named Karceoles who freezes him in a block of ice and drags him kicking and screaming because he had a vision that Searon would someday unite the human towns of Calthoria and kill these beasts once and for all. For what purpose? Well, the book never really explains who is behind the sudden appearance of the drayeks and a second menace that sort of resemble blue skinned horned beasts called daemions. With no definite enemy in sight until the last 20% of the novel where a warlock and a necromancer are at least allied with these beasts, the story mostly focuses on Searon grudgingly accepting Karceoles's demand to locate allies.
This is where I felt like the book suffered a lot and that the insanely slow speed of the middle of the book was the reason why it took me a whopping 9 months to finish it. Some of the recruited characters are memorable (Starlyn, a sort of rebellious kheshlar that is deadset on a revenge of her own, a kind hearted human without any formal military training named Andron that is unexpectedly talented with the sword, Noraes, who is Searon's younger brother that has finally settled down with an enviable nobility title, Anaela, another kheshlar with unusual green skin that briefly appears in the final chapters and finally, a third kheshlar named Erenuyh who acted aloof with everyone until we find out the motive...).
I had a really hard time connecting with the other recruited characters. Nothing about their personalities (except perhaps Sh'on to a degree) drew me in and made them stand out. It made the slow middle hard for me to read because this book seems to be more focused on the characters over a complex plot.
Luckily, things speed up in the final 20% of the novel which sort of compensated for the slow middle. I like Anaela's character and think she will hold a pivotal role in the second novel. The book has a bit of an anticlimatic ending, the enemy was only slightly affected, no big villains defeated, motives discovered, Starlyn's sister is still wandering somewhere and the kheshlar king doesn't take the threat seriously. However, it does end with some nice points where the sequel might be heading. I wish to finish more SPFBO books first, but I will read the sequel.… (més)