Where I struggled was the over use of common day slang and curse words.
He wrote great battles that really allowed me to feel edge of my seat during them. Morgan has a talent for action scenes as well, that really helped elevate the book. While I didn't really love any of them, I thought they were fleshed out well, and each unique in their ways. Morgan had some great character development, and the three main protagonists seemed fully realized and written well, which is always a plus for me.
It's an interesting approach that I can't really think of ever having read really. I enjoyed the concept of three once heroes, many years after their heroics. There were a lot of great fantasy elements here that I loved. But out in the wider world there is something on the move far more alien than any of his tribe's petty gods.Īnti-social, anti-heroic, and decidedly irritated, all three of them are about to be sent unwillingly forth into a vicious, vigorous, and thoroughly unsuspecting fantasy world-called upon by an Empire that owes them everything and gave them nothing. Until one day he is pulled away from his life and into the depths of the Empire's slave trade, where he will discover a secret infinitely more frightening than the trade in lives.Īrcheth-pragmatist, cynic, engineer, and the last of her race-is called from her work at the whim of the most powerful man in the Empire and sent to its farthest reaches to investigate a demonic incursion against the Empire's borders.Įgar Dragonbane, steppe-nomad and one-time fighter for the Empire, finds himself entangled in a small-town battle between common sense and religious fervor. A veteren of the wars against the lizards, he makes a living from telling credulous travelers of his exploits.
Ringil, the hero of the bloody slaughter at Gallows Gap, is a legend to all who don't know him and a twisted degenerate to those that do.
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