Servant of Steel Chaos Awakens Book 1 eBook Heath Pfaff Hannah Bartlett
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Servant of Steel Chaos Awakens Book 1 eBook Heath Pfaff Hannah Bartlett
The story is very good and the world details keep filling in and adding to the enjoyment of the plot line. The characters are enjoyable, though I found the personality development of Xan to be jarring at times. The editing/proofreading is quite poor and can be very irritating. This is typical of e-published books, but I hope for improvement as e-publishing becomes a standard. Books published solely in electronic format appear to be edited merely by spell-checkers without taking grammar or context into account. Authors, editors, publishers, and proofreaders hear me, please! Do your readers a favor (we're paying for these works, after all) and take the time to really pore over your work and make sure your grammar and context are correct! Thank you!Product details
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Servant of Steel Chaos Awakens Book 1 eBook Heath Pfaff Hannah Bartlett Reviews
Love the 'Anti-Hero' concept. Is Xan bad or good? Lord knows I flipped flopped around a few times trying to decide and I'm into the 2nd book already. The Bonesteel weapons are also a pretty cool concept. Overall a really good read. I even found myself reading this at work when I could sneak away for a break now and then. Different enough from the Hungering Saga (from the same author and also very good) to keep me guessing at what's coming next.
Dark story with a main character being a sort of anti-hero struggling somewhat unsuccessfully to avoid becoming a hero! The main characters are tragic and very believable. If the sequel was available I would buy it right now! (And I just finished this book). That about sum it up. Of course there are the inevitable typos an errors (steel instead of steal, for example)--some of them being jarring to the suspension of disbelief... but, whatever! I liked the book and if you care enough to read this review then I suggest you just buy it and enjoy.
This book has well developed characters and an interesting plot line. It is a cut above most fantasy novels at this price point. That being said, it had some spelling errors that really irked me. Such as misspelling "pier" as "peer" and in one instance "know" instead of "no". But all in all it is worth reading. I will definitely but the next book in the series.
The world building for Servant of Steel is sound. Characters are well defined, dialogue is good, and the plot is imaginative. The writing, however, prevents the book from being a good read. This book reads as if it is a story narrated around a campfire, rahter than a novel meant to engage the reader. The perspective is intermittently first person and third person, with varying levels of omniscience. The descriptive language is repetitive and poorly edited. The character struggles are very blatant and the cliches make the story fun, but overtly predictable. I did read the whole book because the world and plot have potential. Good editing and some practice at writing to "show" rather than "tell" would make this series take life. Excellent potential, lots of promise, but very poor delivery.
Overall, it's an entertaining read that is clearly in need of an editor.
I'm not anal about spelling and grammar. While annoying, those types of mistakes rarely take me out of the story. The area that really shows the need of an editor is the often meandering/rambling narrative, that will repeat itself on more than one occasion. It's natural to write by spilling one's thoughts onto the page, as one is caught up in telling a story, but it's the editor's job to catch this type of repetition and pull the chafe so to speak. There are many instances where the chafe should have been pulled.
As I said, putting the technical issues aside, the story is entertaining, though there is one plot point that does take the suspension of disbelief a bit far (sure, it's fantasy, but things should still make sense within the framework of the setting), and it concerns the obsession the mages appear to have with our protagonist.
This story was so good I could hardly put it down. I stopped writing reviews some 15 books or so ago but am compelled to write one now. Xandrith Dalt is an assassin. He is a force to be reckoned with...dangerous, witty, charming and so well developed that you actually feel as if you walk beside him during his dangerous adventures. Does Xand leave his well honed craft behind to face evils unknown? Well he did well into the story and battled wits with his bonesteel knife along the way. You have to read this book to learn what evil lurks for you and Xand!
This is one of those books that is difficult to review, because I ended it thinking, 'what a great book,' but then thought way back to the beginning and realised how much terrane had been traversed between the beginning and the end. Suddenly the book felt gangly and somewhat unfocused.
It has some great characters. Xan has a dry, fatalistic (though he doesn't believe in fate) sense of humour that I really appreciated. In fact, it carried the book for me. The world-building is fairly rich and other than editing (which is honestly in need of a little more attention) the writing is pretty good. But the whole book is a series of tasks, set one on top of the other and, in the end, any attempted climax just felt like one more hill on a long journey. It tends to sap the tension out of a story.
Also, there are a couple questionable coincidences that, unless later explained to have been arranged, are beyond believable. So much, in fact, that even the book comments on how lucky one in particular is.
My final say is that the book is worth reading, though, and I'll be looking for the sequels.
The story is very good and the world details keep filling in and adding to the enjoyment of the plot line. The characters are enjoyable, though I found the personality development of Xan to be jarring at times. The editing/proofreading is quite poor and can be very irritating. This is typical of e-published books, but I hope for improvement as e-publishing becomes a standard. Books published solely in electronic format appear to be edited merely by spell-checkers without taking grammar or context into account. Authors, editors, publishers, and proofreaders hear me, please! Do your readers a favor (we're paying for these works, after all) and take the time to really pore over your work and make sure your grammar and context are correct! Thank you!
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