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Summary: A Unique, Atypical Fantasy/Military Book
Review: I am an avid military history and fantasy reader. Often the two genres don't mix, so I was pleasantly surprised when I read the series. It is doesn't follow the typical prosaic path of the average fantasy and it is able to suspend reality a bit more than the typical military history book. The book was much more gritty and graphic than a typical fantasy- which is nice considering that much of fantasy is written for a teen crowd, and as I am older now, I desire a bit more. The book took me through the gamut of emotions - I thouroughly enjoyed the book, and just reread it for the second time in 3 years. It was just as enjoyable the second time. The only other book I have read recently that goes into the darker parts of fantasy as does this series is Mathew Woodring Stover's "Heroes Die". If you liked that, you will definately like this as well.
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Summary: A Unique, Atypical Fantasy/Military Book
Review: I am an avid military history and fantasy reader. Often the two genres don't mix, so I was pleasantly surprised when I read the series. It is doesn't follow the typical prosaic path of the average fantasy and it is able to suspend reality a bit more than the typical military history book. The book was much more gritty and graphic than a typical fantasy- which is nice considering that much of fantasy is written for a teen crowd, and as I am older now, I desire a bit more. The book took me through the gamut of emotions - I thouroughly enjoyed the book, and just reread it for the second time in 3 years. It was just as enjoyable the second time. The only other book I have read recently that goes into the darker parts of fantasy as does this series is Mathew Woodring Stover's "Heroes Die". If you liked that, you will definately like this as well.
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Summary: Amazing and truely brilliant!! A++++
Review: I have never read a more fasinating book. One of the greatest fantasy authors of our time. Rober Jordan and others such as Tolkien can not compare to Bunch's vision. His writing is like poetry, while your reading you can clearly see the battle schemes in front of you and can even feel his characters' passion. Chris Bunch has done it again and I can't wait to see what glories you have for us in the furture.
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Summary: Unbelievably bad
Review: I have seen poorly written books but I must say that this one is the king of bad. I am an avid reader and have always tried to remain open minded when reading various works. I have a tremendous love for written materials and do not like to see books that are "dog eared" or have text underlined or highlighted by other readers. Once you understand that about me you will begin to understand how bad this book was when I tell you I burned it after reading the last page. How can I even begin to catagorize this book? I could say that at best it was a third rate porn novel but that would be insulting the genre. Was it a book of War and Sex or was it a book of Sex and War? I'm not sure. Was it easy to follow and understand? At times yes and at other times I would find myself wondering how the main character of the story, Damastes, could be so incredibly stupid. One thing is for certain in my mind. Whatever it was it was a laughable attempt at literature. Maybe it could even be classified as il-literature given the many grammatical mistakes that ran from cover to cover. I cannot in good conscience recommend this book to anyone seeing as how it is too mature for younger readers and too depressing for older ones. I can only hope that the writer will find a better editorial staff; One that is willing to point out the flaws of his work and help him to correct them. Why did I give the book even 1 star? Because I applaud his effort in trying to achieve a bit of reality by detailing what war is like. And I applaud his courage for being a writer given how difficult a job it is.
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Summary: Unbelievably bad
Review: I have seen poorly written books but I must say that this one is the king of bad. I am an avid reader and have always tried to remain open minded when reading various works. I have a tremendous love for written materials and do not like to see books that are "dog eared" or have text underlined or highlighted by other readers. Once you understand that about me you will begin to understand how bad this book was when I tell you I burned it after reading the last page. How can I even begin to catagorize this book? I could say that at best it was a third rate porn novel but that would be insulting the genre. Was it a book of War and Sex or was it a book of Sex and War? I'm not sure. Was it easy to follow and understand? At times yes and at other times I would find myself wondering how the main character of the story, Damastes, could be so incredibly stupid. One thing is for certain in my mind. Whatever it was it was a laughable attempt at literature. Maybe it could even be classified as il-literature given the many grammatical mistakes that ran from cover to cover. I cannot in good conscience recommend this book to anyone seeing as how it is too mature for younger readers and too depressing for older ones. I can only hope that the writer will find a better editorial staff; One that is willing to point out the flaws of his work and help him to correct them. Why did I give the book even 1 star? Because I applaud his effort in trying to achieve a bit of reality by detailing what war is like. And I applaud his courage for being a writer given how difficult a job it is.
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Summary: This book defines bad
Review: I have several problems with this book, but for the sake of brevity I won't mention them all. Instead, I'll just address the supposed "qualities" that everyone insists on mentioning.
1. Graphic Sex. No, I mean, GRAPHIC. OK, fine, we're all adults, we've heard those naughty little words before and can handle reading them. But the problem is two-fold: first, they are completely disconnected from the storyline (as mentioned many times); second, they are totally implausible. The fact that Bunch, who styles himself a 'historian', expects us to believe that a countess from one of the oldest and wealthiest families in the empire would let a soldier do those things to her is just ridiculous. Did people have kinky sex in the middle ages? I suppose so. Would a fabulously wealthy and beautiful woman of impeccable breeding let a poor soldier do things with her some American women of the 21st century would blush at? Of course not. Laughable. Bunch is just writing his fantasies out on paper.
2. Bunch's Knowledge of Military Society. This bothered me the most. I was in the military for ten years, and I can tell you, the author's description of how soldiers interact was shallow and inaccurate. You do not promote a twenty-three year old man known as 'the Fair' to the rank of general over the heads of men twice his age. Not ever. No, kids, not even if it makes the story exciting. Said generals do not meekly accept this. The army does not accept this. It never has, other than rare, generally disasterous exceptions. Then, when Damastes has reached this exalted position, he's given a suicidal mission (by the very man who promoted him in a fit of blatant favoritism) into enemy territory that requires little more than brute strength and the ability to be quiet. Wait, why was he made general again? What the heck is going on in this book?
3. The Lack of Magic. Sure, there's some use of it. Every now and then, mages will pull out a deus ex machina that takes care of everything (then avoid doing the same thing later), but for the most part, it is never explained how or why these things work. If demons can do all these things for mages, why worship the gods? Why not demons? How are they trained? Why are so few weapons enchanted? With such convenient inventions such as telepathy, surveillance, and armageddon-style spells, why weren't all these kingdoms ruled by sorcerors ages ago?
Though this review is long-winded, I have only touched on this series' many, many faults. Do not encourage such hack writers by buying this. I can't believe that the thousands of fantasy authors out there cannot churn out better stuff than this. My standards aren't that high, but boy, this trilogy disappoints.
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Summary: Ouch
Review: I second many other people in saying this is one of the worst "fantasy" series ever. Now to be fair I never read the third book, I just couldn't make myself. Like someone else said, I don't mind sex in books, pretty much nothing offends me but this series has so much unneeded sex scenes it is ridiculous. I got the feeling the only fans of this series would have to be sex addicts, people who like their characters written extremely shallow, or young teenagers who get a kick out of the sex scenes. It keeps coming back to the sex scenes, they are like every third page and go on and on and on and on and on...... The hero is a schlupp and the villian is laughable. I am never this harsh on a book usually but I am trying to hammer home to you people how bad this book and the first one are. Do not waste your time!
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Summary: read it, its worth it
Review: I thought it was a very good book. the story line went well and it only had one bit i did not enjoy. The other thing was it was a little to long. The same tale could have beentold the same in less pages.
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Summary: A bit kinky, but still a good read
Review: Never one to shy away from a gratuitous sex scene, the author still manages to weave a compelling story of love, war, faith, and betrayal. Not quite as good as the first book in the series (it's tough being the second sibling) but still a satisfying and enjoyable successor to the Seer King.
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Summary: Needs a fresher angle
Review: Now I know a series must try to follow from one story to another, but The Demon King seems to have a lot of rehashing of the first book with the main character, Damastes, losing happiness, gaining happiness, and then losing it again. It would have been a lot more refreshing to find a new story or any signs of intricate plot twists, but how many times can you use a maddened peasant mob running amuck? Overall, it was a very good story on it's own, but as a follow up to his previous work, Chris Bunch leaves this reader hoping that the sequel will finally not have another riot of peasants killing everything in sight and a give us a better understanding of more of the characters than just the gloomy atmosphere of Damastes.
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