Blurb
The Heron Kings have been betrayed. A century after their formation from a gang of desperate peasant insurgents, the shadowy band of forest rangers suffers a rare defeat when a skirmish turns into a bloody ambush. Their shaky truce with the crown is tested as young members Linet and Aerrus work to track down their enemies. When reluctant peacetime soldier Eyvind reveals a conspiracy to welcome the charismatic invader Phynagoras, the trio must convince a weak king and pitifully few allies to stand against the storm.
Their only hope lies in the forgotten tactics of their own guerrilla past, and a terrifying new alchemical weapon the likes of which the world had never imagined. The only question is which side will be destroyed by it first…
Author Bio
By day Eric Lewis is a research scientist weathering the latest rounds of mergers and layoffs and still trying to remember how to be a person again long after surviving grad school. In addition to subjecting his writing to one rejection after another, he can be found gathering to himself as many different sharp and pointies as possible and searching for the perfect hiking trail or archery range. Don’t ask where, because he’s never lived anywhere for longer than five years.
His debut novel The Heron Kings and the sequel The Heron Kings’ Flight are available now from Flame Tree Press. His short fiction has been published in Nature, Cossmass Infinities, Hybrid Fiction, Electric Spec, Allegory, Bards and Sages Quarterly, the anthologies Crash Code, Into Darkness Peering, Best Indie Speculative Fiction Vol. 1, the short story collections As It Seems and Tricks of the Blade and many other venues detailed at ericlewis.ink.
My Thoughts
This book is a bit hard for me to describe. I really was never invested in the characters in the least.
The characters to me is what makes a really good story into great. This had the story I just didn’t enjoy the characters which to me is sad.
Don’t get me wrong I do believe that they were well written and even the story was solid. I like the premise of the story and I enjoyed the descriptions of the world that the author has built.
What I loved was the premise of this book as I do like the idea of the Heron Kings and I felt that the betrayal was done very well showing so much of what makes this book a good example where writing was amazing even if I didn’t enjoy the characters. It is unique for me as I am more of a character person but this book the story was so much better and just made the book good.
I found the names a but hard for me especially as I like to know how to say a name properly and not try and guess.
I want to thank the author as well as Anne for the invitation to the blogtour.
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