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Hero, Second Class
Have at You Cyrus Solburg is a young man who dreams of becoming a Hero in a fantasy world in which Heroes owe monthly dues and Villains are allowed only one eclipse per fiscal quarter. Cyrus becomes the apprentice to Sir Reginald Ogleby, also known as the Crimson Slash, a towering swordsman with a titanic sword and a penchant for self-narrating his own battles. It's up to...more
Paperback, 616 pages
Published
October 1st 2008
by Marcher Lord Press
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Review by Jill Williamson
Cyrus Solburg is an apprentice to Sir Reginald Ogleby, otherwise known as the Crimson Slash. It is Crimson’s duty to teach Cyrus in all matters pertaining to becoming a real Hero. As Cyrus and Crimson travel the countryside, they meet up with some new friends: a dragon named, Keeth, and two feline Katheni, brother and sister.
As Cyrus nears Herohood, an Arch-Villain is on the loose, plotting diabolical destruction and revenge. Can Cyrus manage to r...more
Cyrus Solburg is an apprentice to Sir Reginald Ogleby, otherwise known as the Crimson Slash. It is Crimson’s duty to teach Cyrus in all matters pertaining to becoming a real Hero. As Cyrus and Crimson travel the countryside, they meet up with some new friends: a dragon named, Keeth, and two feline Katheni, brother and sister.
As Cyrus nears Herohood, an Arch-Villain is on the loose, plotting diabolical destruction and revenge. Can Cyrus manage to r...more
In which the reviewer expounds upon the notion that this is a Whacking Good Story, featuring heroic derring-do and perfidious villainy amid slaughter on a monumental scale, a Touching Love Story, and a good many puns.
Cyrus Solburg is the squire of the noble-hearted though dense hero Sir Reginald Ogleby, known as the Crimson Slash. Endowed with superhuman powers and desire to express them, heroes like the Crimson Slash fight villains with similar inclinations in a medieval world popula...more
Cyrus Solburg is the squire of the noble-hearted though dense hero Sir Reginald Ogleby, known as the Crimson Slash. Endowed with superhuman powers and desire to express them, heroes like the Crimson Slash fight villains with similar inclinations in a medieval world popula...more
This is a story with several layers. First, a superficial, poking-fun-at-the-clichés-of-fantasy layer, second, a type of coming-of-age story of the main character, Cyrus, and how his dreams of becoming a hero isn't what he thought it was, and third, a deeper layer that is alluded to and, I assume, continues in the subsequent books. Some parts of the book had me laughing at the parodies, sometimes it took me out of the story. Once I got used to the author's narrative style, the story flowed bette...more
I borrowed this book from a friend a while back after we both heard about it at a local writer's conference. I found it interesting; the characters were original and each had their own unique way of endearing themselves to the reader. I'm still tracking down the second book and expect it to be as good a read as the first :]
It's overly whimsical and sometimes fails in its humor, but it an insightful satire of fantasy, deliberately taking many fantasy stereotypes into account in ways that prove that the author must have been highly conscious and analytical of the epic fantasy genre in order to write this book.
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