He fights evil unquestioningly, until something forces him to reexamine what evil really means. Yet underneath that, something troubles him, dreams and visions of things that make no sense to him. Ashok Vadal is as much of a weapon as the sword he carries. The main character is very remenicent of Agent Franks from Larry Correia’s Monster Hunter series and even more so of his Clan Crab character from his Legend of the Five Rings RPG write-up. Some good, some bad, some heroic with tragic flaws and others self-interested yet still willing to help others out. Into this world are cast a number of characters. It is a world filled with petty tyrants, a caste system restrictive enough to get violators killed, and an overreaching bureaucracy that tries to control everything and only seems to succeed in making peoples lives miserable. I’ll say right here that it is not a world I would want to live in. Larry Correia has created a deep world with complex issues. So I’m not going to comment on grammar or editing issues, I’m just going to talk the story. I’ll note here that I read an electronic Advanced Reader Copy (eARC) through Baen’s website. I’m a big fan of Larry Correia’s books in general, so when I had the opportunity to snag his upcoming epic fantasy book, the first of a new series, I bought it with little hesitation.
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