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Orcs: Inferno (Orcs: Bad Blood #3)
Using the mysterious artifacts known as instrumentalities, the Wolverines embarked on a world-hopping mission to liberate fellow orcs and to take revenge on their old antagonist Jennesta. But it isn't working out too well for the warband. Saddled with novices and a pair of humans of doubtful loyalty, and pursued by a powerful group bent on retrieving the instrumentalities,...more
Paperback, 400 pages
Published
April 10th 2012
by Orbit
(first published April 1st 2011)
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This is the sixth and... I hope... final installment in Nicholls' Orcs series. I say I hope it's the last installment because the books weren't that good to begin with and they've gotten progressively worse with each installment. The characters are for the most part all weak and one-note but at least in the previous books you could respect the orcs for their sense of honor. Even that is blown away in this one when they reprehensibly burn down a forest and kill all the creatures within it just so...more
I don't know if I'm looking vack with rose-tinted spectacles on, but I just remember the first three books in Stan Nicholls's Orcs series being so much better than his later offerings.
I think Inferno, his latest installment, is perhaps the worst of the lot. There didn't seem to be any depth to the characters anymore, Jennesta feeling particularly sidelined, and the plot meandered.
The dimension-hopping scenes went on for at least two chapters too long. It was fun to begin with and there were some...more
I think Inferno, his latest installment, is perhaps the worst of the lot. There didn't seem to be any depth to the characters anymore, Jennesta feeling particularly sidelined, and the plot meandered.
The dimension-hopping scenes went on for at least two chapters too long. It was fun to begin with and there were some...more
I wanted to enjoy this more, I really did. But, I think there were two problems plaguing this book - first, the previous volumes came out so long ago, it was hard for me to recall everything that had happened in the past to get the Wolverines where they are today. I think this book would be far more enjoyable when read closer to the other novels in the series
The second issue was the jumping to other worlds. I get why Mr Nichols developed the plot that way, but the way it was written in a lot of...more
Excellent conclusion to the three book series, well worth the wait!
Mar 28, 2013
Mikael
marked it as to-read
Mar 25, 2013
Matt Elder
marked it as to-read
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