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Scourge of the Betrayer (Bloodsounder's Arc, #1)

Jeff Salyards

Start date: May 1, 2016

Finish date: June 30, 2016

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Oct 05, 2013 Tracey the Lizard Queen rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2015-reads, fantasy

Solid start to a very intruiging story. I particularly loved the first person POV. Often its quite easy to become de-sensitised to the violence and death in books, but this was refreshing in a sense that the main protaganist is just a lowly scribe completely unused to the soldiering life. A different take on military fantasy, and excicuted very well. I think I will like this series very much!

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May 09, 2017 Phillip rated it it was amazing

For all of you who keep thinking about the new George or the new Joe... look no further! You've come to the right place! This guy does it like the best of them. If you want grimdark, cynical and violent military prose, here it is. Enjoy! ...more

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Aug 08, 2014 Martin Owton rated it really liked it

A group of mercenaries on a secret mission in hostile territory are required by their emperor to take with them an archivist who will record all their deeds. Sounds like an extract from a Black Company story by Glen Cook, and indeed it could be. Arki is not the first archivist to join the company and the other came to bad ends. Jeff Salyards paints a convincing picture of an outsider forced upon a group lead by Captain Braylar Killcoin who are comrades but not necessarily friends. Arki is no kin ...more

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