Tristan
4/5 - This review is after a reread before I continue onto the next book. On a reread I enjoyed it much more.
Hanrahan's Black Iron God book are some of my favorite books and when I first picked this up I was hoping for his creative world building. It was then a little jarring to come into a world so full of LOTR and DnD tropes. In my first read through it was distracting to encounter the aftermath of A DnD campaign in a LOTR copy and a few odd choices like calling the dark lord Lord Bone. On the reread I was able to ignore these elements and enjoy the story knowing it gets to new and interesting places.
This book really felt like a setup book to bring the setting from the typical end of the story everybody knows, the group of adventurers takes down the dark lord, to the story the author really wants to tell. That being what happens when to occupy the dark lords domain.
4/5 - This review is after a reread before I continue onto the next book. On a reread I enjoyed it much more.
Hanrahan's Black Iron God book are some of my favorite books and when I first picked this up I was hoping for his creative world building. It was then a little jarring to come into a world so full of LOTR and DnD tropes. In my first read through it was distracting to encounter the aftermath of A DnD campaign in a LOTR copy and a few odd choices like calling the dark lord Lord Bone. On the reread I was able to ignore these elements and enjoy the story knowing it gets to new and interesting places.
This book really felt like a setup book to bring the setting from the typical end of the story everybody knows, the group of adventurers takes down the dark lord, to the story the author really wants to tell. That being what happens when to occupy the dark lords domain.