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Bone Knight #5
A Daring Plan and A Cold Shoulder
To rise up, you must first fall.
They've found her. They know where she is and they know the way. After all this time, the last dark god may finally be within their grasp. Together, Max and Trina will have to come up with a way to breach an impregnable fortress, extract Arinna, and make it out alive.
Trina's pretty sure it's a suicide mission but if they have any chance at all it's going to take a lot of work, preparation, and meticulous planning. Even then success is anything but assured. And if they do happen to find her... will Arinna be the same?
They've found her. They know where she is and they know the way. After all this time, the last dark god may finally be within their grasp. Together, Max and Trina will have to come up with a way to breach an impregnable fortress, extract Arinna, and make it out alive.
Trina's pretty sure it's a suicide mission but if they have any chance at all it's going to take a lot of work, preparation, and meticulous planning. Even then success is anything but assured. And if they do happen to find her... will Arinna be the same?
344 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 28, 2021
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Tim Paulson
16 books13 followersI am Tim Paulson, writer of fantasy and science fiction.
I'm currently writing the Bone knight litRPG series. It's fun to revisit the game worlds I enjoyed when I was young. I grew up with Final Fantasy, Mechwarrior, Dragon warrior (known to many as Dungeon Quest), and X-COM. These games, along with a whole lot of movies and books, have informed what I think is cool: Impossible odds and grave decisions with monumental stakes.
Bone knight book nine, the finale for the series, is currently underway. After that is complete, I have a new litRPG series already planned that should come out in time for Christmas 2022.
Also: Audiobooks are on the way and a Boneknight RPG game is currently in development.
If you've enjoyed my books, please leave a review.
Thank you!
-Tim
I'm currently writing the Bone knight litRPG series. It's fun to revisit the game worlds I enjoyed when I was young. I grew up with Final Fantasy, Mechwarrior, Dragon warrior (known to many as Dungeon Quest), and X-COM. These games, along with a whole lot of movies and books, have informed what I think is cool: Impossible odds and grave decisions with monumental stakes.
Bone knight book nine, the finale for the series, is currently underway. After that is complete, I have a new litRPG series already planned that should come out in time for Christmas 2022.
Also: Audiobooks are on the way and a Boneknight RPG game is currently in development.
If you've enjoyed my books, please leave a review.
Thank you!
-Tim
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June 14, 2021
What kind of story do you want, emotion or plot based? That is the question. This wasn't one of my favorites in the series and that is no fault of the author at all. It wasn't that the story wasn't written as well, it's just that it wasn't as character driven as the previous installments. I like a more simplistic plot with heavy character growth.
The first few books are my favorites since you have your overarching quest: Save Arinna, peppered with the small quest of gaining experience, killing the main bad guy and traveling a certain distance. It is very cut and dry. What the earlier books focus on is Max and Raeg coming into their own. Max starts out as a self-conscious dweeb, not feeling good enough and being overwhelmed. Raeg is a kill them first, ask questions never type of guy. They begin as an unlikely, temporary alliance and it grows into a life long friendship with well rounded characters. Seeing them change as people and their witty dialogue will always be my favorite.
After Raeg's death the series changed from emotion driven to plot driven. We gained Trina which I will tip my cap to Paulson. I started out hating her and sniggering everytime Max wouldn't let her join the group. To now, I am okay with her as a team member. She doesn't have the heart of Raeg and her relationship with Max isn't as "rich" in my opinion. But, for plot based people, you won't mind.
In this book there is action around every corner, tons of characters old and new popping out of the woodwork and more than one evil bad guy around the corner. You have multiple storylines all fighting around the same time. It is clear that every story arch and character will come together in a final hurrah, whether that is sooner rather than later. So that is cool but not why I am sticking around. I think particularly for male readers, the later books are going to be the favored ones. For female readers, we will like the earlier ones. I don't really care about killing the bad guys and gaining experience points. Honestly, I just want Max to sit down with his dad and work out their relationship.
If you started the series, you gotta keep going, in my opinion. If you are wondering if this will be a higher or lower ranked book in the series, decide what you really like. Are you more Lord of the Rings with a key cast all working together and changing as people for the better? Or are you a Game of Thrones that likes lots going on and tons of blood and death? The beauty of this series is that you can have both. So well done Paulson.
The first few books are my favorites since you have your overarching quest: Save Arinna, peppered with the small quest of gaining experience, killing the main bad guy and traveling a certain distance. It is very cut and dry. What the earlier books focus on is Max and Raeg coming into their own. Max starts out as a self-conscious dweeb, not feeling good enough and being overwhelmed. Raeg is a kill them first, ask questions never type of guy. They begin as an unlikely, temporary alliance and it grows into a life long friendship with well rounded characters. Seeing them change as people and their witty dialogue will always be my favorite.
After Raeg's death the series changed from emotion driven to plot driven. We gained Trina which I will tip my cap to Paulson. I started out hating her and sniggering everytime Max wouldn't let her join the group. To now, I am okay with her as a team member. She doesn't have the heart of Raeg and her relationship with Max isn't as "rich" in my opinion. But, for plot based people, you won't mind.
In this book there is action around every corner, tons of characters old and new popping out of the woodwork and more than one evil bad guy around the corner. You have multiple storylines all fighting around the same time. It is clear that every story arch and character will come together in a final hurrah, whether that is sooner rather than later. So that is cool but not why I am sticking around. I think particularly for male readers, the later books are going to be the favored ones. For female readers, we will like the earlier ones. I don't really care about killing the bad guys and gaining experience points. Honestly, I just want Max to sit down with his dad and work out their relationship.
If you started the series, you gotta keep going, in my opinion. If you are wondering if this will be a higher or lower ranked book in the series, decide what you really like. Are you more Lord of the Rings with a key cast all working together and changing as people for the better? Or are you a Game of Thrones that likes lots going on and tons of blood and death? The beauty of this series is that you can have both. So well done Paulson.
April 6, 2022
Another great book. Still way too short, but the quality and the action, and the fun makes up for this short fall in spades.
Raeg has fallen, Trina and Max must forge forwards. Max gets to rampage through a town in Dark Mage mode, we meet a cowardly Dragon and Air pirates and we meet a new threat. The light has their own version of Max, their warrior from earth who can change class at will, only Brittney’s been here several hundred years and has a much higher level than Max and higher levels in every class as well. Meanwhile Max’s personal Demon and guide the Scragger has been locked up in the underworld by Demons who are trying to take over and do not want Max to succeed or for Arinna to come back. They even manage to recruit a dead Raeg to their side, initially, until he leads the charge to free the Scragger, however reluctantly that was. Here we get airship fights, flying griffin riders, Mytten the giant spider gets her chance to shine, as does Scruff, Max explores more classes and action galore. All of it awesome.
Though for some inexplicable reason, although Max gets access to class upgrades, and he knows class upgrades are highly overpowered, and from experience with the Gladiator upgrade he knows in real world time the trials are almost instantaneous, he doesn’t use them! No rhyme or reason why not.
Raeg has fallen, Trina and Max must forge forwards. Max gets to rampage through a town in Dark Mage mode, we meet a cowardly Dragon and Air pirates and we meet a new threat. The light has their own version of Max, their warrior from earth who can change class at will, only Brittney’s been here several hundred years and has a much higher level than Max and higher levels in every class as well. Meanwhile Max’s personal Demon and guide the Scragger has been locked up in the underworld by Demons who are trying to take over and do not want Max to succeed or for Arinna to come back. They even manage to recruit a dead Raeg to their side, initially, until he leads the charge to free the Scragger, however reluctantly that was. Here we get airship fights, flying griffin riders, Mytten the giant spider gets her chance to shine, as does Scruff, Max explores more classes and action galore. All of it awesome.
Though for some inexplicable reason, although Max gets access to class upgrades, and he knows class upgrades are highly overpowered, and from experience with the Gladiator upgrade he knows in real world time the trials are almost instantaneous, he doesn’t use them! No rhyme or reason why not.
September 23, 2021
Book five
Mistakes: First off, the page count is untrue. These books are very fast reads. Mistakes, if any are listed on Goodreads.
Plot: Rescue of a goddess...... Or not.
Characters: Level growth is fine.
5/10 These little books need to be combined to make some real books.
Mistakes: First off, the page count is untrue. These books are very fast reads. Mistakes, if any are listed on Goodreads.
Plot: Rescue of a goddess...... Or not.
Characters: Level growth is fine.
5/10 These little books need to be combined to make some real books.
July 22, 2024
Great fun
Everything you want in an ongoing series. Action and adventure, reoccurring characters, plot and character development. The book continues with a fun game progression, keeps it interesting and fun.
Everything you want in an ongoing series. Action and adventure, reoccurring characters, plot and character development. The book continues with a fun game progression, keeps it interesting and fun.
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