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S'està carregant… The Coward: The Quest for Heroes, Book 1 (edició 2021)de Stephen Aryan
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. One of the better books I read in 2021. I love the focus on a single set of characters without the epic fantasy cut aways. Aryan, Stephen. The Coward. Quest for Heroes No. 1. Angry Robot, 2021. As a teenager, Kell Kressia joined a band of self-styled heroes to journey to the north to defeat the Ice Witch who was threatening the world’s climate. He returned victorious as the only survivor of his band. Now, he is an unhappy farmer but a local hero with a growing reputation because a bard has written a successful epic about him. His sword hangs on the wall of the local pub, and tourists pester him for war stories. They do not want to hear the unheroic truth, and he does not want to tell it. He feels himself to be a coward with a duty to protect the undeserved reputations of those who died. He suffers from a combination of what we would now call posttraumatic stress disorder and survivor’s guilt. His unhappy life changes for the worse when the king tells him to gather a band of volunteer warriors and journey again to fight evil in the north. To make matters even worse, a local religious leader sees his reputation as a threat and hires assassins to dog his steps. The Coward is a well-told sword and sandal quest epic enlivened by a strong central character. Four stars. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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HTML:Who will take up the mantle and slay the evil in the Frozen North, saving all from death and destruction? Not Kell Kressia, he's done his part... Kell Kressia is a legend, a celebrity, a hero. Aged just seventeen he set out on an epic quest with a band of wizened fighters to slay the Ice Lich and save the world, but only he returned victorious. The Lich was dead, the ice receded and the Five Kingdoms were safe. Ten years have passed Kell lives a quiet farmer's life, while stories about his heroism are told in every tavern across the length and breadth of the land. But now a new terror has arisen in the north. Beyond the frozen circle, north of the Frostrunner clans, something has taken up residence in the Lich's abandoned castle. And the ice is beginning to creep south once more. For the second time, Kell is called upon to take up his famous sword, Slayer, and battle the forces of darkness. But he has a terrible secret that nobody knows. He's not a hero - he was just lucky. Everyone puts their faith in Kell the Legend, but he's a coward who has no intention of risking his life for anyone... No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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