
Kingdom of Bones
The Echoes Saga, Book 5
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Narrated by:
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Steven Brand
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The World Has Fallen Into Ruin. Myth and Legend Have Proven True. Monsters Have Returned to Illian.
Orcs, an ancient fiend thought lost to history, have risen from The Under Realm. Their hunger for total dominance has plunged Illian into war, pushing the survivors to Namdhor, the last refuge of man at the top of the world.
For those who stand up to this foe, they do so in darkness. Ash clouds smother the skies, blocking out the sun as the orcs rampage across the land.
Behind it all, manipulating from the shadows, The Black Hand fuels the war on both sides. The Crow, the one who was promised, has seen the future and works in the depths of The Bastion to forge a new weapon, a weapon that can stand against the dark at all costs.
Gideon Thorn is adrift, his order decimated, and his oath to protect the realm meaningless. The Master Dragorn faces his greatest test yet, balancing his duty to the people and his duty to his order.
Inara Galfrey has a choice to make as the realm’s darkest hour approaches. Malliath and Asher cannot be ignored but holding fast to her courage could save the world. It could also spell her end.
Doran Heavybelly finds himself at the throne of his father. There are realms of hell he would rather visit than the halls of his ancestors. Shackled and bound, however, the dwarf has no choice but to face his past....
Kingdom of Bones Continues This Unmissable Epic Fantasy Series.
©2019 Philip C. Quaintrell (P)2019 Podium Publishinga very good sequal.
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Excellent series
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Really enjoying this series. Couldn't work out how SQ could take the original trilogy any further, as it was all quite neat. But I think this 2nd trilogy is even better than the first.
Another great read in the series.
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good and frustrating
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Cannot wait for the next book
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Amazing!!
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Great book
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More please, just give me more please.
Heavybelly!!!!
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Disappointed
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It absolutely feels that the author firstly needs someone to take the prose in hand and edit it fiercely into a much tighter, snappier, smarter, wittier … and generally better state. This reads like an earnest amateur creative writer’s second draft - it does not reach the literary level that is to be hoped for from a successful published author. I realise it’s fantasy, so we’re not talking expectations of Jane Austen or Hemingway here: but surely a good editor could have left the listener with more than turgid, repetitive prose that it’s regularly impossible to just listen to, as one finds oneself rewriting the sentence in a better form or improving upon the descriptive phrasing that one has just been subjected to.
It’s the same with the plot. There’s just so much random illogicality in the concepts brought forward. There are times where an idea is constructed within the narrative that is both interesting and intriguing. One wants to see how this is applied, given this profound magical capability or novel weaponry that has just appeared. Then, further on, this same element is suddenly no longer anywhere near as potent or impactful, as it had previously been… oh wait, until it suddenly is again. It’s massively irritating, as one almost talks back to the narrator telling him that that couldn’t happen given this… or “hang on, I thought we were just told this”.
Again it feels like a really sound editor would have picked apart this plot and made the author go fix these inconsistencies - it’s a real pity they didn’t.
I won’t spoil the plot at all obviously: but the existence of the “Leviathan”(not plot involved at all in this novel, nor any before) is just plain ridiculous … and surely something an editor would have shut down immediately.
One really, really hopes that the author ends up with a better sounding board / editor to push back on plot and challenge on prose before the works ever make it to release.
The imagination and natural story-telling talent seems real: but in serious need of some professional honing by those well-versed in the editorial craft…!
Feels like a really good editor is needed …
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