***SPOILERS AHEAD***
A wild ride... This book is about the dastardly plan to kill the emperor of the seven worlds and place the blame on the barbarian king Lord Valeron of Branarius. As the back cover describes "Villainy most foul." Okay so right off, this book obviously takes place in a spin-off world of Robert E. Howard's Conan universe. That was in the beginning... However as you read you find very peculiar things are going on in this universe. In the time and place of the story apparently we (now) are the ancient race that had perished long before their time. When they talk of the Kings arriving on ships I was thinking like Viking long ships. NO! Not at all. They meant SPACEships!!!! And as hard as the author tried to explain how it is that they come to use these spaceships, his explanation seemed to falter a bit as it came up short for the reader that these people are able to maneuver these ships but not know how they are doing it. They just press buttons. Have you ever seen the movie Krull? It's a lot like that. Ah, but I digress. The story was pretty typical of a barbarian epic fantasy, which is a point that I definitely loved. The beginning sucked me right in but I have to say that the ending was a little less than satisfactory. And while the fighting scenes were very well described, some other scenes, such as the romantic exchanges, were lacking very much in detail. Some just cut clean to the chase without any detail at all. As surprising as it was, this still was a very fun read for me and I would be happy to recommend it to those who enjoy epic fantasies and adventure stories.
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