The Wolf's Call
(Raven's Blade #1)
by Anthony Ryan
fantasy
copyright 2019
read in February 2021
rated 7/10: well worth reading
Okay, "well worth reading" if you want violent, action-packed fantasy. Once I settled in to reading, it was fun. Violent fun.
Every so often there is a battle. By the end everyone -- everyone surviving, that is -- will be wading in blood and stepping over body parts. A few people will clearly survive to the end of the book -- despite chapter endings where they are dying. Anyone else is likely to die suddenly.Yes, it is violent.
But not nasty. It's bloody, violent, occasionally stupid but not nasty.
Still, I almost stopped reading... very near the start. This is "book one" -- but it continues from an earlier trilogy. Who are all these people? I wondered. It was enough fun for me to read on and soon, past history didn't matter. Current roles were made clear. Then new characters were introduced -- and often killed -- so the confusion of characters was no longer due to the previous books.
btw: Despite the previous trilogy, this adventure is brand new. The action has moved to a new continent, to an old "China".
So. It's violent action. Solid macho posturing. Death and stupidity in every chapter.
To survive, the characters are tough. That should be tough in capital letters. For instance: The junior member of the band is told to do the cooking. She can't cook. Yet every member of the gang eats whatever she produces, with no complaint. Sooo tough.
Then there is the hero. (Yes, definitely "hero".) In a previous book he "saved" the woman he loved by knocking her unconscious and sending her overseas. To "safety". Of course it was not safe, so in this book he rushes off to "save" her again. She has a secret plan. Does he ask her, What is your plan? Of course not! He simply plans to knock her out and send her to some other "safety". Sooo macho.
Yes, it's ridiculous.
It's violent.
It's a lot of fun.
Dr Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper
... Agamedes Consulting / Problems ? Solved
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