One thing was the world building, which was second to none. There are so many other things that I loved about this book. His observations of the world and the people around him are hilarious), I’d cried with them, I’d gotten angry for them, my heart had broke with theirs, I’d celebrated their victories…anything they felt or experienced, I had too. We’d gone through so much together by then I’d laughed with them (a lot. As cliched as it might sound, the guys from Saga felt like old friends by the time I read the final page. Each and every single one of the people populating the universe in which Kings of the Wyld is set – from Clay Cooper to Taino – is unique, having been so finely crafted that they’re not simply words on a page they’re actual people that we grow to care about. A character is a caricature.” I thought this quote was apt because it’s exactly what Nicholas Eames has done. This morning, while scrolling through Twitter like it was the morning newspaper, I saw a great Ernest Hemingway quote: “When writing a novel a writer should create living people people, not characters. The answer to those questions was a flat out no. Would I find myself mentally adrift amid a flurry of names of creatures I had never heard of? Would it be tiresome spending 492 pages with a bunch of old guys? Prior to Kings of the Wyld, I hadn’t really delved into this genre so I really wasn’t sure what to expect. I wanted to give the review the time it deserved so I could do this fantastic book justice.įirst things first, I’m new to the realm of high fantasy.

Okay, so I finished Kings of the Wyld a few days ago and the main reason I didn’t write my review right away was simply because I enjoyed it so much. It’s time to get the band back together for one last tour across the Wyld. Rescuing Rose is the kind of impossible mission that only the very brave or the very stupid would sign up for. Then a former bandmate turns up at Clay’s door with a plea for help: his daughter Rose is trapped in a city besieged by an enemy horde one hundred thousand strong and hungry for blood. Clay Cooper and his band were once the best of the best – the meanest, dirtiest, most feared and admired crew of mercenaries this side of the Heartwyld.īut their glory days are long past the mercs have grown apart and grown old, fat, drunk – or a combination of the three.

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