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rooroo_reads's review
2.0
Let me preface this by saying that I got a copy of this book for free in exchange for an honest review. So here goes.
This book was kind of all over the place. It is five separate stories, not completely unrelated to each other but clearly occurring some time apart. There is almost no transition from one story to the next, it just happens. We are not given any real background into who any of the characters are until the third story, and even then we only hear about one of the four people who make up the band of mercenaries known as The Shadow. There's no introduction to who they are, why they do what they do, or where any of them came from. We are just thrown into the story.
That being said, I can't say the book was horrible. It wasn't. I did enjoy it for what it was. The writing style is good. Nothing overly flowery, but also not very descriptive. The fight scenes were great, I could definitely see them playing out in my mind. But beyond that, it was kind of clinical; detached, almost. Character descriptions are few and far between, so it's hard to imagine any of the characters at all (I kinda fell back onto generic character designs and went from there), and the only setting that stood out to me was from the fourth story because I feel like there was more time spent on describing that location than any of the others. The first "big reveal" was, however, ridiculously predictable, and the second one was slightly less predictable in that I was only half correct in my assumption.
Would I continue reading this if there is a sequel? I don't know. I don't feel the pressing need to know what happened after the last story. I do feel like the ending left it open to more (and if the author note is any indication, it sounds like this is going to be a trilogy). If it comes across my kindle, I may take a peek, but as of right now, I am leaving this as is.
All in all, it is a solid collection of stories.
This book was kind of all over the place. It is five separate stories, not completely unrelated to each other but clearly occurring some time apart. There is almost no transition from one story to the next, it just happens. We are not given any real background into who any of the characters are until the third story, and even then we only hear about one of the four people who make up the band of mercenaries known as The Shadow. There's no introduction to who they are, why they do what they do, or where any of them came from. We are just thrown into the story.
That being said, I can't say the book was horrible. It wasn't. I did enjoy it for what it was. The writing style is good. Nothing overly flowery, but also not very descriptive. The fight scenes were great, I could definitely see them playing out in my mind. But beyond that, it was kind of clinical; detached, almost. Character descriptions are few and far between, so it's hard to imagine any of the characters at all (I kinda fell back onto generic character designs and went from there), and the only setting that stood out to me was from the fourth story because I feel like there was more time spent on describing that location than any of the others. The first "big reveal" was, however, ridiculously predictable, and the second one was slightly less predictable in that I was only half correct in my assumption.
Would I continue reading this if there is a sequel? I don't know. I don't feel the pressing need to know what happened after the last story. I do feel like the ending left it open to more (and if the author note is any indication, it sounds like this is going to be a trilogy). If it comes across my kindle, I may take a peek, but as of right now, I am leaving this as is.
All in all, it is a solid collection of stories.
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