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Kagen the Damned
by Jonathan Maberry
adventurous
dark
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Kagen the Damned
by Jonathan Maberry
Fantasy Dark Epic
Kagen Vale swore to protect the royal children of the Silver Empire, but he failed and those children along with the rest of the royal family were sadistically murdered. But those were only a few of the lives lost in just one night when the Witch-king invaded multiple cities by the use of magic.
Because he failed to keep his oath, Kagen has damned himself. Believing his gods turned their back on him, he now wanders, collecting others to help him kill the witch-king.
I was disappointed in this one. The blurb stretches what the story is really about. Kagen doesn't go into 'strange' lands, and he only battles people, who are mean and sadistic, but not 'terrifying creatures'. Instead, the author takes the reader to these places through the eyes of many, and I do mean many, different characters. I still don't know why there was a chapter about a woman turning into a fish or what happened to the buried guy snacking on worms. But the other characters' chapters did have a point, but, for me, all of those characters made the story feel more like a telling story than a showing story. It was 'go here and do that because of this reason'.
There weren't very many vivid descriptions, except for the fights, (blood and gore), and most of the wandering was going from town (tavern) to town (tavern), and listening to a drunken Kagen whine about how worthless he is, and even after he sobered up he was still a whiner, and I don't like him that much. I like his two friends a lot more.
There is a lot of violence, blood, gore, rape, and the such. So not suitable for readers under eighteen! This story also has a lot of religious bias. You know, the banning of all religions except one.
But overall, it is an ok story, not great, but good enough, but it could've been a hell of a lot better. With all of these characters, there had better be something big in the works in book two.
A little more love would've earned this book one more star.
2 Stars
by Jonathan Maberry
Fantasy Dark Epic
Kagen Vale swore to protect the royal children of the Silver Empire, but he failed and those children along with the rest of the royal family were sadistically murdered. But those were only a few of the lives lost in just one night when the Witch-king invaded multiple cities by the use of magic.
Because he failed to keep his oath, Kagen has damned himself. Believing his gods turned their back on him, he now wanders, collecting others to help him kill the witch-king.
I was disappointed in this one. The blurb stretches what the story is really about. Kagen doesn't go into 'strange' lands, and he only battles people, who are mean and sadistic, but not 'terrifying creatures'. Instead, the author takes the reader to these places through the eyes of many, and I do mean many, different characters. I still don't know why there was a chapter about a woman turning into a fish or what happened to the buried guy snacking on worms. But the other characters' chapters did have a point, but, for me, all of those characters made the story feel more like a telling story than a showing story. It was 'go here and do that because of this reason'.
There weren't very many vivid descriptions, except for the fights, (blood and gore), and most of the wandering was going from town (tavern) to town (tavern), and listening to a drunken Kagen whine about how worthless he is, and even after he sobered up he was still a whiner, and I don't like him that much. I like his two friends a lot more.
There is a lot of violence, blood, gore, rape, and the such. So not suitable for readers under eighteen! This story also has a lot of religious bias. You know, the banning of all religions except one.
But overall, it is an ok story, not great, but good enough, but it could've been a hell of a lot better. With all of these characters, there had better be something big in the works in book two.
A little more love would've earned this book one more star.
2 Stars