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Tin Hero
In the tales of adventurers and heroes everyone knows the farm boy, on his quest to slay the Ogre/Dragon/Nosy neighbor who really shouldn’t be poking around in the azaleas with his camera must enlist the tutelage of a wise benevolent master.
But sometimes the old narrative gets a bit crossed and the farm boy is actually the misbegotten son of a blacksmith and the benevolent master is a retired woman who’d rather face down a rather peckish horde of brain eaters than teach an idiot how to properly wave a sword before heroically soiling his drawers. Funny how they never mentioned that part in the tales.
Somewhere between the stuff of legends and the legends of stuff lies the actual muddy, humorous and gory truth.
But sometimes the old narrative gets a bit crossed and the farm boy is actually the misbegotten son of a blacksmith and the benevolent master is a retired woman who’d rather face down a rather peckish horde of brain eaters than teach an idiot how to properly wave a sword before heroically soiling his drawers. Funny how they never mentioned that part in the tales.
Somewhere between the stuff of legends and the legends of stuff lies the actual muddy, humorous and gory truth.
271 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 12, 2011
About the author
Sabrina Zbasnik
19 books31 followersS.E. Zbasnik is the author of the Dwarves in Space series – think Tolkien and Hitchhiker’s merged in a horrific transporter accident – as well as a bunch of other fantasy novels. You can find her on twitter as well as facebook, and hopefully not standing right behind you.
Lover of halloween and video games. If you want to talk darkspawn, ghouls, geth, or dremora come on over. We have desserts. The cake is not a lie, but I wouldn't trust the ice cream.
Lover of halloween and video games. If you want to talk darkspawn, ghouls, geth, or dremora come on over. We have desserts. The cake is not a lie, but I wouldn't trust the ice cream.
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January 30, 2012
I thought the story was interesting and very entertaining, and would like to see more from this author. Unfortunately, I almost put the book down several times due to the amount of editing that still needs to be done. At the very least, it needs to have a great deal of punctuation added just for the sake of clarity. There's a large percentage of single sentence paragraphs, and even a fair number of long sentences that are broken into two paragraphs seemingly because of a proper noun in the middle of the sentence. In several places there are completely wrong words used and it's difficult to guess which word the author was really going for. All of that, along with the normal errors that come from relying on spell check or auto-correct, made it very frustrating reading at times.
I really enjoyed the story though and am glad that I stuck with it, the story is loaded with snark and I would love to see more stories from Sabrina. I found this book from following the author on twitter, just based on something that was retweeted by someone else that I was following.
I really enjoyed the story though and am glad that I stuck with it, the story is loaded with snark and I would love to see more stories from Sabrina. I found this book from following the author on twitter, just based on something that was retweeted by someone else that I was following.
May 23, 2013
this book was funny, smart, crass in some places and had wonderful characters. it is a bit of a satire of sword and horse fantasies. well done, well written and worth the read.
June 29, 2013
Well I saw this book and it was free so I decided to try it. Honestly the writing style is very good, it can keep you interested but sadly this wasn't my type of book. If you do like a comedic twist on a regular fantasy than I recommend you get it.
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