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The Most Notorious "Talker" Runs the World’s Greatest Clan #3
The Most Notorious "Talker" Runs the World's Greatest Clan (Light Novel) Vol. 3
EVERYONE’S GOT SECRETS
Noel and his clan, Wild Tempest, are well on their way to the top. As they strike down one powerful beast after another, they have to contend with Lorelei–a clan spinning a top-secret plan in the shadows. While the clans battle for supremacy, the emergence of one of the Ten Dark Lords looms on the horizon…
Noel and his clan, Wild Tempest, are well on their way to the top. As they strike down one powerful beast after another, they have to contend with Lorelei–a clan spinning a top-secret plan in the shadows. While the clans battle for supremacy, the emergence of one of the Ten Dark Lords looms on the horizon…
380 pages, Paperback
First published February 25, 2021
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March 20, 2024
I just can't, this is not for me.
March 6, 2023
Lush character development. Competitive combat initiatives. Subtle yet sumptuous narrative twists. For the readers who stuck with this novel series, THE MOST NOTORIOUS TALKER RUNS THE WORLD'S GREATEST CLAN v3 is a strong volume. The book is devoted entirely to defining and expanding the characters who constitute this chaotic fantasy realm, exposing their limitations and daring them to take one step beyond every known disadvantage before them. For Noel Stollen and his clan, Wild Tempest, that means baiting the most powerful fighters on the continent and drawing the attention of the most savage warriors around.
THE MOST NOTORIOUS TALKER...v3 has action, character growth, and a delightful twist or two, but what makes this book so engaging is its deliberate pivot from player-versus-monster combat toward player-versus-player combat, to use more colloquial verbiage. Enough charging into staged and planned battles against enormous creatures with otherworldly powers. It's time to demand these egotistical humans measure themselves more fully, against one another, with the very weapons and guile they claim make them the best of the best.
Wild Tempest is solid, but it's still just a notorious clan, not a regalia. Noel seeks to change that. His team's hope rests in its capacity to defraud and sunder a third-tier regalia, take its place, and take the empire's lead against the coming Valiant. It's not a bad idea. Just an insane one. The regalia Lorelai has big plans, and is obviously stowing its money and power for future gains. If Noel is to topple the group's lead fighters, who wield mysterious abilities and hoard traitorous pasts worthy of rumor, then he's going to need something more than the blood of the average seeker running through his veins.
The novel's emphasis on character development is patient and well-measured. The shifts in narrative point of view are better managed here than in previous volumes, and the balance in the types of characters for which these shifts occur is more valuable, given the direction the story takes. In other words, readers encounter the lives and experiences of characters with a stake in the game. THE MOST NOTORIOUS TALKER...v3 doesn't mess around. An apolitical clan master hoping to assail her boredom and avoid getting caught in the crossfire? An overly heroic vice-master who realizes he's worthless if he doesn't push himself to the brink to stand up for his comrades? A man in exile, shielding his heart from an abusive past, who detests the necessity of every blasted fighter hiding a "secret weapon" of some kind? An assassin in a foreign land, on death's door, longing to see her young daughter reach womanhood?
Agency. This novel is about characters whose lives are invariably blood-stained, but who choose to find a path (or fight for a path) that might somehow, one day, prove worth dying for. Noel accelerates his progress toward becoming the world's strongest seeker through dangerous means that threaten to rend his body apart. His vice-master, Leon, finally steps into his own, and even goes so far as to invent a new skill in the heat of a raucous battle. Alma, quiet for much of the novel, vows to prove her worth against an enemy whose legendary, multi-pronged attack threatens to kill her in an instant.
Elsewhere, secondary and tertiary characters make their move. And it's a doozy. Notable among them is the once-repelled but now inexplicably returned Malebolge the Chaotic, the eight generation Valiant. Whether Malebolge's alliance with the Lord of Flies spells doom for Wild Tempest is unknown. But one thing is for certain: No matter how incredible the multiclass combat, no matter how dark the otherworld alliances, and no matter how insidious the schemes to undercut and exploit them all, the consequences are real.
THE MOST NOTORIOUS TALKER...v3 has action, character growth, and a delightful twist or two, but what makes this book so engaging is its deliberate pivot from player-versus-monster combat toward player-versus-player combat, to use more colloquial verbiage. Enough charging into staged and planned battles against enormous creatures with otherworldly powers. It's time to demand these egotistical humans measure themselves more fully, against one another, with the very weapons and guile they claim make them the best of the best.
Wild Tempest is solid, but it's still just a notorious clan, not a regalia. Noel seeks to change that. His team's hope rests in its capacity to defraud and sunder a third-tier regalia, take its place, and take the empire's lead against the coming Valiant. It's not a bad idea. Just an insane one. The regalia Lorelai has big plans, and is obviously stowing its money and power for future gains. If Noel is to topple the group's lead fighters, who wield mysterious abilities and hoard traitorous pasts worthy of rumor, then he's going to need something more than the blood of the average seeker running through his veins.
The novel's emphasis on character development is patient and well-measured. The shifts in narrative point of view are better managed here than in previous volumes, and the balance in the types of characters for which these shifts occur is more valuable, given the direction the story takes. In other words, readers encounter the lives and experiences of characters with a stake in the game. THE MOST NOTORIOUS TALKER...v3 doesn't mess around. An apolitical clan master hoping to assail her boredom and avoid getting caught in the crossfire? An overly heroic vice-master who realizes he's worthless if he doesn't push himself to the brink to stand up for his comrades? A man in exile, shielding his heart from an abusive past, who detests the necessity of every blasted fighter hiding a "secret weapon" of some kind? An assassin in a foreign land, on death's door, longing to see her young daughter reach womanhood?
Agency. This novel is about characters whose lives are invariably blood-stained, but who choose to find a path (or fight for a path) that might somehow, one day, prove worth dying for. Noel accelerates his progress toward becoming the world's strongest seeker through dangerous means that threaten to rend his body apart. His vice-master, Leon, finally steps into his own, and even goes so far as to invent a new skill in the heat of a raucous battle. Alma, quiet for much of the novel, vows to prove her worth against an enemy whose legendary, multi-pronged attack threatens to kill her in an instant.
Elsewhere, secondary and tertiary characters make their move. And it's a doozy. Notable among them is the once-repelled but now inexplicably returned Malebolge the Chaotic, the eight generation Valiant. Whether Malebolge's alliance with the Lord of Flies spells doom for Wild Tempest is unknown. But one thing is for certain: No matter how incredible the multiclass combat, no matter how dark the otherworld alliances, and no matter how insidious the schemes to undercut and exploit them all, the consequences are real.
February 19, 2025
Did the author get themself addicted to cigarettes or something while writing this volume?
December 31, 2022
The conclusion to the battle doesn’t sit perfectly with me, but this series is still in my top 2
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