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Kron Darkbow seeks vengeance, and he skeleton to have it no matter a costs. Returning to a city of his birth after 15 years, he hunts down a sorceress obliged for a deaths of those he desired usually to find out another was obliged for a murders. That other is Belgad a Liar, a former barbarous commander who is now trainer of a city's underworld.
Following his trail for blood, Kron comes opposite a enchanting healer, Randall Tendbones, and incidentally reveals Randall's darkest tip to a world. It's a tip about a past, a tip that has kept Randall on a run for 3 years. Now it has held adult with him, and Belgad a Liar is unexpected a slightest of Randall and Kron's concerns. The gawk of Lord Verkain, aristocrat of of a dim northern land of Kobalos, has depressed on Kron and Randall. And it is a gawk filled with madness.
City of Rogues is a dim action/adventure epic anticipation novel in a tradition of David Gemmell and Glenn Cook. It is Book we of a Kobalos Trilogy.
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #102508 in eBooks
- Published on: 2009-06-17
- Released on: 2009-06-17
- Format: Kindle eBook
- Number of items: 1
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32 of 37 people found a following examination helpful.
C'mon
By Presto
I bought this book since many of a reviews are so good. we suspicion to myself: Hmm, a book that has God reviews mustbe good right? Ehhh. we will contend that a book had me meddlesome from commencement to end, yet usually since we suspicion that there would be some form of annulment during a end.
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In this book, all or many of a characters have roles that they should not have. The favourite states that a categorical knave is a means of all his wretchedness and woe, and nonetheless we find out that a "villain" competence be a good crook, yet he positively is NOT a vilain he is done out to be. He is instead utterly reasonable for a male in his position.
The "hero" does not merit that name, for he is not a usually male during all. The usually thing he defends is his revenge, and that gets copiousness of other trusting group killed. He, for all his skill, is not a male of reason, nor does he give or even try to offer any reason whatsoever for what he does. He does not simulate on that that moves him.
The lass is another dignified conundrum. She is a footman of a fencing master, whom she betrays when she is not even certain why. She offers an forgive though, that she wants to learn from "the male who fights so strangely", yet a book presents her master as a many learned of all three.
In short, a "villains" are created as sincerely common men, yet positively not honourable of death, while a "heroes" do seem implicitly offensive to me.
As for a story line. You are told from commencement to finish that a categorical impression wants to take his punish on somebody. When he finally does, he shifts his courtesy to something totally separate to his before life, and he still moves on with a same enterprise for revenge. As a reader we had to ask myself "Why?"
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As we pronounced before, this book kept me reading from commencement to end. In fact, there is no reason since a categorical characters have to be heroes. If we am this unhappy with a characters, it usually speaks good of a author who can emanate in me such clever feelings. So, usually as many people have created before me, we contingency contend that a author has good talent, and we will be reading serve work. However, for improved or for worse, we like books in that a characters have what they deserve, and this is not one of those books. we am not going to examination a rest of a series.
8 of 8 people found a following examination helpful.
Good, value a dollar.
By BaulkhamPeter
This book is good, it is an beguiling read. There are a lot of things about a book that are annoying, yet altogether it still kept me interested.
Some of a denunciation is a bit strange, for instance there is a "busted window". The verb unequivocally stands out as on peculiar choice of slang. There is also a unequivocally worried impulse when some travel urchin says to a favourite "that's since we adore me", and a favourite replies "yes, that is since i adore you". we couldn't assistance wondering where such a clever tension had come from given that they had usually unequivocally had a integrate of business interactions.
The story also takes a thespian spin during a end, where a integrate of people who have usually met are deliberating something, and all of a remarkable a favourite proclaims a new hazardous goal he contingency undertake, yet it unequivocally comes from nowhere, it is usually a approach of environment adult a subsequent book even yet it doesn't seem to describe to anything that had happened.
There are a integrate of aspects of a book that are created roughly like a mystery, as if we should be guessing and wondering who etc, yet that side of a book arrange of falls flat. Overall, there were a lot of weird aspects to this book, yet for some reason, it still hold my courtesy and we did suffer it, even if we was infrequently shouting during a story instead of with it.
5 of 5 people found a following examination helpful.
Not bad, yet could have been better
By Eric Zawadzki
The representation chapters clearly uncover that a author can write well, earnest a story of adventurous and artistic punish in a suggestion of The Count of Monte Cristo. There was even a indicate early in a story where we was rubbing my hands together with joviality since it seemed like a knave was going to unwittingly sinecure a change ego of a male perplexing to murder him to lane down a male perplexing to murder him. And that was gonna be overwhelming to watch!
Unfortunately, this was usually one of a unequivocally extraordinary intensity tract twists that usually unsuccessful to manifest - hinted during and afterwards usually dropped. If a author had lavished as most courtesy on a center and finish of a book as he clearly did on a beginning, City of Rogues could have been so most some-more than usually another anticipation novel with informed tropes, batch characters, and medium world-building.
It's not a bad story, mind you, yet we can't assistance yet feel it could have been so most improved if a author had done some bolder tract choices.
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