6/26/2023 0 Comments Empire of storms book orderSome will say I dragged my heels when stretching the training out over three books. One of the characters is (a bit like one of mine) a sword-wielding martial arts expert trained by a holy order. The characters also have their own slang which, while realistic and adding local colour, also tends to irritate me whenever I encounter it in a book. I guess there are shades of Priest of Bones and Low Town to be seen. It's urban fantasy in as much as most of it happens within a city, specifically the slums of a city. But for all that it's probably a lot closer to traditional heroic fantasy than it is to grimdark. One of the main characters is quite happy to murder people during the course of enriching himself. The book has some elements that are often associated with grimdark - there's a lot of muck and dirt, a lot of crudity, swearing (examples: the phrases "bending cocks" and "stretching cunts" crop up quite a bit) and harsh lives lived in fairly hopeless squalor on show. And when my wife saw me reading it she was reminded that she'd liked it a lot, and asked me to buy the next two volumes. I know some readers that have been very enthusiastic about my work are big fans of this one. This book treads the line between something I'd really like and something I'm a bit meh on, and it keeps putting a foot to either side. I'm used to seeing people hate books I loved, and to me bouncing off books that some folk adore with religious zeal.
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