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A review by croaker
Shadow of the Conqueror by Shad M. Brooks
1.0
I really wanted to like this book because I love the world building and the magic system. The main character even has a good back story. There are a few decent characters in the book but overall the development of the main cast is very disjointed and erratic. The action scenes are great! The rest is just really rough.
About halfway through the book I figured out it was self published. I don't have a problem with self-published books but they tend to have some serious flaws. Bad editing, poor layout of plot and development of characters. A lot of suspension of disbelief is required to follow the book to the end.
This book has all of that.
This book needed the heavy hand of an editor and a publisher willing to work out the glaring problems this book has.
The main character was also the ultimate Mary-Sue. There is justification for him being amazing at everything but it got old really fast.
I feel guilty because I'm usually not this harsh about a book but I felt kind of duped. I watched his video about his book being published and based on the cover art and the people reading the audiobook I thought it was published by a major publisher like Tor. I expected a well polished, well developed fantasy novel. I didn't get that.
Side note: This book has a lot of talk about rape in it. Like, a lot.
About halfway through the book I figured out it was self published. I don't have a problem with self-published books but they tend to have some serious flaws. Bad editing, poor layout of plot and development of characters. A lot of suspension of disbelief is required to follow the book to the end.
This book has all of that.
This book needed the heavy hand of an editor and a publisher willing to work out the glaring problems this book has.
The main character was also the ultimate Mary-Sue. There is justification for him being amazing at everything but it got old really fast.
I feel guilty because I'm usually not this harsh about a book but I felt kind of duped. I watched his video about his book being published and based on the cover art and the people reading the audiobook I thought it was published by a major publisher like Tor. I expected a well polished, well developed fantasy novel. I didn't get that.
Side note: This book has a lot of talk about rape in it. Like, a lot.