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Summary: A little vague but over all very good.
Review: As is typical of David Weber you had to watch very carefully for clues about what he was talking about.
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Summary: The mortal said: "God, where were you when we needed you?"
Review: Bahzel Bahnakson is caught between two worlds. His father champions a nation of laws and justice, yet is willing to do massive deeds of carnage to achieve it. Bahzel interceeds in rape of a woman by a local prince. He winds up having to run away with the girl. Not to live happily ever after, but to avoid getting killed by the father of the prince for beating the hell out of his son or to be killed by the prince's followers.What you would expect at this time would be a long quest with the girl falling in love with the hero. No. What happens is that he leads the chase away from her and winds up hundreds of miles away from home. He picks up a sidekick. What you would expect is that the sidekick is an accomplished singer and/or bard. NO!!!! The sidekick can't compose, and he CAN'T SING. Period. He tries, but does not have the knack for it. In their travels, the ugly dreams start. Bahzel is convinced that there is "destiny" and "gods" involved and wants none of it. They end up in a town and help a woman trying to get home. In the trek to her home, the god of Justice shows up and says, in essence, "Yo, Bahzel, you my boy. I want you for my champion." Bahzel says, "F*** you, where were you when my people needed you?" Somewhere toward the end of the book, Bahzel has to make the choice we all must make: When Evil is about, do you help to banish it, or do you let someone else do it.
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Summary: the new conan
Review: Bahzell Bahinakson was a Hradani Horse Stealer to be precise. His best intentions go astray and he finds himself running for his life with a friend who writes bad balads for Bahzell's listening enjoyment. Oh course there are also some demons, assasins and a dark God or two that also want him dead. Keep in mind this is nothing Bahzell can't handle he has the War God on his side. Sure this is just an ordinary book, but its a very fun ordinary book, I would not expect anything less from David Weber. Thery are comming out with a sequal in March so if you read this book and like it be sure to check out "The War God's own" and "Windbreakers Oath".
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Summary: I finally found a copy
Review: Bahzell Bahinakson was a Hradani Horse Stealer to be precise. His best intentions go astray and he finds himself running for his life with a friend who writes bad balads for Bahzell's listening enjoyment. Oh course there are also some demons, assasins and a dark God or two that also want him dead. Keep in mind this is nothing Bahzell can't handle he has the War God on his side. Sure this is just an ordinary book, but its a very fun ordinary book, I would not expect anything less from David Weber. Thery are comming out with a sequal in March so if you read this book and like it be sure to check out "The War God's own" and "Windbreakers Oath".
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Summary: Solid world building
Review: Bahzell Bahnakson is a Conan with honor who is the son of his people's Charlemagne. His father is attempting to unite their race, the hradani, uplift the people as a whole and overcome the prejudices of all other races of Man. Bahzell is a larger than life hero and is all about loyalty, justice and honor. Weber provides interesting insights into the nature of loyalty and worship.
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Summary: Impressive Fantasy
Review: Bahzell is an impressive giant sized man with fighting skills and nobility that would impress anyone. But the problem is, he is a hradani, a race of men cursed with a rage that has given them a horrible label of being vicious and terrifying. His life is not plesant but at least it's stable. But everything changes forever when he saves a poor girl from being murdered. Suddenly he has to flee the castle and has a price on his head. People are after then with the power of dark gods on their sides. No body trusts him because he's a hradani, and for some strange reason whenever he does something good his life seems to get complicated even more. Meeting hradani, mages, wizards, dark gods, light gods and assassins on the way Bahzell starts his journey to the gods only know where and discovers his destiny. Although I'm not too experienced with this type of fantasy books I was quite impressed with this one. Bahzell's story is thrilling and filled with suspense. David Weber proves himself as a skillful master of storytelling. He fills his story with just enough detail to give you a solid mental picture of the surroundings but rarely making the story seem tedious. The characters are not always likable but always interesting. I can't wait to read the next book in the series, The War Gods Own. The only complaints I have is it starts out a bit slow and a few parts seem unnecessary (who knows I may be proved wrong in the next book!) but the rest of the book makes it worth it.
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Summary: One of the Best
Review: Born to fight evil? The protagonist is so bold and pure that he will give his life for some one(who hates him) in the name of justice and goodness. Cleverly written book with very cool characters and a solid story line.
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Summary: Killer
Review: David weber does a great job in this. I bet once you get into it you wont put it down. I did not and I have read it 3 times. This and war gods own are two grate books and grate fantsy, however not the typical in the sence of his Honor Harrington or his other SiFi series (i forget the title of the series) in the sence that it is more down planet side but is in outer space on the numbers his charcters kill. I know they are extreamly strong, tough and skilled but sometimes it seems unrealistic but besides that its great and is something that all fanisy readers should try.
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Summary: What? An original race?
Review: I actually ended up accidentally reading this series in reverse order (which I don't really recommend). Book 2 (The War God's Own) is the better book in my view, but this one is still a darn good read. My great compliments to Weber for creating the hradini, a fantasy race that aren't elves, dwarves, orcs, or god forbid, halflings. The hradini as a race is a fascinating creation, and their troubles with their racial history even more so. They are a people who've had to do without gods because the gods have explicitly turned their back on them, and our hero's reasons (and his father's) for doing good have nothing to do with edicts from on high, but with sound reasoning, which is very refreshing. Not exactly high literature, but a very good read indeed.
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Summary: great book
Review: I have been a fan of Mr. Webers Honor Harrington novels from the start. I doubted that he could do fantasy as well as his science fiction, but I tried this book anyway. It was great. It reminded me of the best Conan the Barbarian stories I read when I was younger. The only dissapointing thing about this book and the second book in the series is that there isn't a third and fourth book in the series. I have to admit Honor Harrington is a little repetitive these days. I really hope Mr. Weber comes back to this series. To leave it at only two books would be a real shame.
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