Knight of the Blazing Sun

[eldargal]

Anyone read this, is it worth picking up?

[shadowhawk2008]

You can find my review of the novel here.

http://thefoundingfields.com/2012/02...un-shadowhawk/

Its a decent novel all told. Good characters, decent pacing, exciting locations and lots of character conflict thrown in the bargain. I'd recommend picking it up since I quite like Josh's work.

[Sheena Easton]

It made me want to bulk buy the collected works of CS Goto and read them in the one sitting...

[eldargal]

Thanks, I'll give it a try then.

You can find my review of the novel here.

http://thefoundingfields.com/2012/02...un-shadowhawk/

Its a decent novel all told. Good characters, decent pacing, exciting locations and lots of character conflict thrown in the bargain. I'd recommend picking it up since I quite like Josh's work.

Care to elaborate?

It made me want to bulk buy the collected works of CS Goto and read them in the one sitting...

[Xisor]

Aye, it's well worth a look, in my esteem. Not a florid style of writing, but it's easy reading and a pretty thoughtful, interesting story. It was a pleasant & stimulating read. Small(ish) cast and not too epic in its setup either, a rather personal and sedate story.

[eldargal]

I like the more personal stories, shall definitely get this, thanks.

[Ponge]

I enjoyed the book aswell, it was a good read and has a really interesting story.

[Sheena Easton]

Care to elaborate?

Blatantly obvious plot that made the entire cast seem utterly retarded for not noticing it. I just didn't buy it at all - it made Goto's ridiculous Slaanesh worshipping Eldar seem plausible.

[Xisor]

I took it in my reading that the plot was fairly obvious to the reader as someone who has fairly intimate knowledge of the 'true' symbolism (every time we hear 'disease' we think 'nurgle' or 'skaven', everytime we hear 'change', 'bird heads', 'multi-hued flames' we think 'Tzeentch'), in universe I didn't see it as blatantly obvious at all.

Plot aside, I'd go so far as saying I liked the characters, I liked the background exploration, I liked the interactions and I liked the settings/set-pieces. The plot itself was pretty neat, in my eyes, and the themes in Hector's own personal development were rather interesting.

My only misgiving, largely, was the inclusion of PoV from the Norscans. Whilst it wasn't badly done by any means, I did think its very existence compromised things a little and interrupted Hector's narrative a bit too much. (I think Hector's adventures/PoV and those close by probably could've carried the novel...well, those were my thoughts at the time. I could be wrong!)

Not a 'super duper amazing book' (which is a shame as the author's damn nice!) by any means, but it held itself really well, kept my interest and kept me amused in many regards. Indeed, the more personal nature of it made it very memorable. Though I perhaps don't rate it as highly as other books, I can't say much bad about it at all - solid.

Actually,

My other misgiving was the Screamer ride near the end. That broke my disbelief, but it was a single event and not too critical to the plot - an exuberance on the author's part. Had my eyes rolling!