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Blade of Tyshalle by Matthew Woodring Stover
2.0
Heroes grow old –
so does Caine. That, I fear, could possibly be an alternative title for the 2nd book of the Caine series. Sadly [a:Matthew Woodring Stover|1567394|Matthew Woodring Stover|https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/authors/1301265530p2/1567394.jpg]has a very monochrome view on this topic. While the whole book could have done with a good third less of the pages, while still keeping the story line intact, what has been written is largely covered in – pardon me here but I only repeat what was repeated over and over in this book – piss and shit and blood and makes me wonder whose stiffened penis would react to the stench of the whole mess while body parts rot away and everyone gets mutilated and raped.
Though I’m really no reader with a weak stomach, I soon got bored by the sheer amount of excrement and pus in this book, to the point it was just disgusting.
And it all started so promising. By playing with the never extinguished fear of epidemic, Stover created a compelling setting for his 2nd book, while even introducing the reader to new and complex characters and (finally) some deeper back ground story to the whole earth/Overworld setting. And then he lost that thought somewhere along the way.
2 stars for getting me all fired up at the beginning!
so does Caine. That, I fear, could possibly be an alternative title for the 2nd book of the Caine series. Sadly [a:Matthew Woodring Stover|1567394|Matthew Woodring Stover|https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/authors/1301265530p2/1567394.jpg]has a very monochrome view on this topic. While the whole book could have done with a good third less of the pages, while still keeping the story line intact, what has been written is largely covered in – pardon me here but I only repeat what was repeated over and over in this book – piss and shit and blood and makes me wonder whose stiffened penis would react to the stench of the whole mess while body parts rot away and everyone gets mutilated and raped.
Though I’m really no reader with a weak stomach, I soon got bored by the sheer amount of excrement and pus in this book, to the point it was just disgusting.
And it all started so promising. By playing with the never extinguished fear of epidemic, Stover created a compelling setting for his 2nd book, while even introducing the reader to new and complex characters and (finally) some deeper back ground story to the whole earth/Overworld setting. And then he lost that thought somewhere along the way.
2 stars for getting me all fired up at the beginning!