David Gullen
Auteur de Shopocalypse
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Crédit image: David Gullen, 2012
Œuvres de David Gullen
Once Upon a Parsec: The Book of Alien Fairy Tales (2019) — Directeur de publication — 16 exemplaires
The Blackhart Blades 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Tales From The Magician's Skull, No. 9 — Contributeur — 3 exemplaires
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- Date de naissance
- 20th century
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 7
- Aussi par
- 7
- Membres
- 70
- Popularité
- #248,179
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 29
- ISBN
- 8
This is apparently the 2nd story featuring them, although there is no indication of the 1dt. the crew are heading away from an expansionist empress to bury the remains of their former leader the Blackheart himself. They've cut through a small mountainous kingdom in the hope of avoiding the armies, but it turns out the normally peaceful and stable kingdom is in disarray. The king has died, and his daughter the heir has disappeared. The Chancellor has taken over, but a knight has taken command of the small army and fortifications. The blades pick up a kitchen boy en route, despite have a blessed chef of their own, and decide perhaps they can spare a little time to intervene.
Quite enjoyed this. The start was a little bit rocky and the prose could have done with another edit, but it soon settled down into a more readable style. The characters are a bit quirky and I'm not sure I would enjoy a full novel's worth of them without considerably more backstory and world development but for a novella did work quite well. A little bit like Cook's Black company but considerably lighter in tone.
Considering I very much didn't like the other title by this author I'd read (had I realised I probably wouldn't have chosen to read this, ) it's significantly different and much improved. Would read others of the series.… (plus d'informations)