Book Review For Steel, Blood & Fire by Allan
Batchelder
Immortal Treachery Book 1.
Are you a fan of: Grimdark, Joe Abercrombie’s First Law
series, Steven Erikson’s The Malazan Book of the Fallen, Glen Cook’s Chronicles
of the Black Company, or Patrick Rothfuss’ Kingkiller Chronicle? If so, grab
your copy of Steel, Blood & Fire now!
5 Stars: This book has a very well thought out plot
engaging the reader in unexpected twists and turns including love stories and
epic battle scenes involving twenty-four well developed characters.
Steel, Blood & Fires opens with unspeakable violence as
Tarmun Vykers, A.K.A, “the Reaper” a legendary warrior is in the stocks (in
bonds, under guard). One must be warned that this is a work of dark fantasy,
horror and mythology with adult language and graphic violence.
Author Allan Batchelder has done very well laying out this
book with easy-to-follow headings (much like the way a play production might be
laid out). The story pivots back and forth from what is happening with his main
characters: the legendary warrior named Tarmun Vykers, Aoife Cestroenyn (An
A’Shea or “Mender,” sister of Anders), D’Kem (a washed up Burner), Janks &
Company, Long, A.K.A, Long Pete, Spirk Nessno (An idiot and friend to Long),
Anders Cestroenyn (the self-proclaimed “End-of-All-Things) and Arune (A
spectral Burner who shares Vykers’ body).
I would like to share a quote from this book that will help
draw you in without spoiling the story. This quote come from one of the chapter
four headings titled ‘The End, On the March’.
…“After seeing his general off, Anders climbed a small
hillock and surveyed his host. What they lacked in training and skill, they
more than made up for in numbers and ferocity. Either his magic had worked
especially well upon his unwilling draftees, or humans were all more savage
than they cared to admit. Looking out upon them, he saw them huddled in large,
teeming masses around myriad bonfires. They were always ravenous for food, of
course, but also for sex and violence. The End-of-All-Things would be happy to
destroy them all, once they had served their purpose.
…Pivoting to his left, he held out his arms and a slave laid
the infant into them. It was a funny looking thing, this child. And would get
funnier still, by the time Anders was through with it. He had decided, after
some thought, that it was time he created something for a change. He would be
the end of all things presently in existence, but this child would be the first
of his new race, beings made specially to serve and obey him. Worship would not
be required, as he felt he would probably kill large numbers of them whenever
he got bored. Perhaps he should also create a competing race and pit them
against one another!”
A must read for those who want to remain on the edge of your
seat.
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