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The Fell Sword

By: Miles Cameron
Narrated by: Matthew Wolf
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Summary

Loyalty costs money. Betrayal, on the other hand, is free. When the emperor is taken hostage, the Red Knight and his men find their services in high demand - and themselves surrounded by enemies.

The country is in revolt, the capital city is besieged and any victory will be hard won. But the Red Knight has a plan. The question is can he negotiate the political, magical, real and romantic battlefields at the same time - especially when intends to be victorious on them all?

©2013 Miles Cameron (P)2014 Hachette Audio

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Good story, spotty pronunciation

A genuinely engaging story, following on from "The Red Knight", populated with well-drawn and believable characters. The occasional bad simile, but in a tale of this size it's almost bound to happen. Generally well-narrated, but one or two words get mangled - my pet hate is 'deh-mez-ney' (rhyming with Disney) for demesne (deh-mean), but it is a relatively small grumble.

Can't wait for "The Dread Wyrm"!

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The plot thickens

If you could sum up The Fell Sword in three words, what would they be?

The plot thickens

Who was your favorite character and why?

Too many to single out just one, as the minor ones to the major ones have a role to play

Which scene did you most enjoy?

Where a young mage discovers his powers for the first time and as a result a miscreant becomes rather crispy

Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

laugh at times

Any additional comments?

The plot thickens as they say.
The Red Knight is back and what a welcome return it is, along with his company of honorable and not so honorable knights and hangers on. This time rather than fighting the wild (monsters to you and me) they are employed to rescue the Emperor of a faded empire. So there is betrayal, assassins, spies, explosions and dark deeds aplenty. Of course that is just part of the story as while this is going on, other events are fueling the bigger story and new players emerge with their own agenda. Just to whet appetite there is more violence, magic, skullduggery, betrayals on many levels from kings and queens downwards to peasant rebel soliders turning on their own. All created with an eye for detail that shows the writer's undoubted knowledge of the medieval time period. Now while this is a fantastic fantasy it is clearly built taking influences from French chivalric knights good, bad and down right crazy, Scottish Highlanders, Vikings as royal guards, Native American Indians to Eastern steppe horseman. At times the pace slows a little but in the right places as a book of this size needs a breather in places so again more praise for such a good writer as if it was battle after battle things would get boring. Unlike many writers Cameron is not scared to kill his major characters off and the main one seems to spend a lot of his time damaged in way or another..One person who I think will have a huge part to play is the mysterious "Mr Smythe" bit of a spoiler alert that sorry.
But this series is shaping very nicely and will only get better. As the Archer Willful Murder has been known to say "Mark my words...."

Bring on part 3,4,5,6????

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Very enjoyable

Really enjoyed this second book in the series; nice ideas, good characters, great narration (aside from the distinctly odd pronunciation of certain words: wyvern (wivvern), demesne (demezzny), brazier (brassiere), destrier (destriay), hypercaust (hippocaust) to name but a few; quite jarring).

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Great entertainment

Great series just getting better and better with every book. One of the best in the genre

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Great listen

Hearing Tom Lockland shouting his war shout hives me goose bumps
can be hard to know when the perspective has changed.

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Top Notch

Turning out to be an epic knight’s tale brilliantly narrated by Mr Wolf who brings feeling to the characters in line with some of the best narrators that I've had the pleasure to listen to

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tedious

there is too much technical information about the fighting and not enough character or story development.

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A good series

Narration is great, with the second book personalities develop further although there are some disappearing characters which is a pity.
I have really enjoyed the this series and hopefully I will get the 3rd book if they change narrator back to Matthew Wolf. The 3rd book has a different guy and it ruins the story of 1 & 2.

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Strong follow up

The plot and cast thicken and grow. One of the best narrated books I've heard.

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another good epic

after a slow start it really didn't really get that good until a third of the way through.
the book itself was more of a aftermath of the first book as well as a prologue of sorts to the next one.
I really look forward to it.

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