The Weight of Blood David Dalglish 9781450574488 Books
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Fantasy author David Dalglish begins his series of the half-orc brothers, whose struggles will soon bathe the land of Dezrel in demon fire... Five hundred years ago, brother gods devastated their world with civil war. When they were imprisoned, their conflict ended without a victor. Centuries passed while their followers secretly continued the war, a war that will soon have an end. The gods have found their paragons. ------ Book Description When half-bloods Harruq and Qurrah Tun pledged their lives to the death prophet Velixar, they sought only escape from their squalid beginnings. Instead, they become his greatest disciples, charged with leading his army of undead. While they prepare, Harruq trains with an elf named Aurelia, to whom he owes his life. She is a window into a better world, but as war spreads between the races, their friendship takes a dire turn. Velixar orders them to fight alongside the humans, changing Aurelia from friend to foe. To protect her, Harruq must turn against his brother and fight the killing nature of his orcish heritage. THE WEIGHT OF BLOOD by David Dalglish To side with one means to turn on another. No matter Harruq's decision, someone he loves will die. ------ About the Author David Dalglish currently lives in rural Missouri with his wife Samantha, daughter Morgan, and dog Asimov. He graduated from Missouri Southern State University in 2006 and currently devotes himself to perfecting his craft. He spends his free time playing racquetball and watching PBS with his daughter.
The Weight of Blood David Dalglish 9781450574488 Books
Kind of strange writing and a little odd to read allowed. Sometimes it felt like there was some kind of innuendo the author was unintentionally putting in. Easy read for a 9 hour car trip. Pretty standard triple act and a little predictable. I didn't feel the author did anything special with magic in the world and didn't take the time to explain it. It is a high magic setting where power is only described and doesn't seem to be measured clearly. There doesn't seem to be limits to magic and it's confusing sometimes why the people with magic don't just crush their enemies with a power the character conveniently can't use because the character is tired. I like the idea that their are half orc rejects living in society, but I didn't care for their responses to society. The parts about necromancy and needing to practice on freshly killed people was interesting and I was always waiting for better elaboration, but barely received a history of magic in the world.Product details
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The Weight of Blood David Dalglish 9781450574488 Books Reviews
The Weight of Blood is an apt title for this very intense story of good versus evil. A story of opposites; of love and hate, betrayal and redemption, love found, lost and refound, a tale of sanity and madness. Above all it is a story of two brothers whose parentage and childhood shaped the men they were to become, a childhood that forged the unbreakable bond that gave them the strength to survive a land in which they were despised; a land in which they never should have been.
The Weight of Blood is a high energy tale with a bit of intrigue, a lot of action and an emotional undertone that will at times gladen the readers heart and at others disturb the sane mind to the point of not being able to continue the tale.
It isn't often that a story is told where the protagonist(s) is/are a hero yet at the same time an anti-hero but the Weight of Blood is such a story. Love 'em or hate 'em! This 1st in the trilogy of The Orc Brothers is page turner that is well worth the time of any fan of the sword and sorcery genre. Great literature it isn't. A great and high energy story it is. I look forward to reading the entire series.
Warning There are parts of this book that describe acts of pure unadulterated evil that some may find to be too intense or disturbing to read. Some will be offended by the nature of the conflicts described and the evil done during them. The author has pulled no punches. Forewarned is forearmed.
This was a very dark story. I kept at it til the end because I was convinced that there had to be some redeeming quality to at least one of these characters even though I understand it is book one of a series and one must be patient. It never happened. In fact, the main character was so evil in his deeds that, to me, it wouldn't much matter if he saw the light, was redeemed, or not. It was just kill, kill, kill. I never figured out what the motivation really was, much less the goal. The supporting characters were no better. The only interesting character with any potential was the scoutmaster and he came through as rather flat and not fully explored. Normally the whole point of a story is a lesson or major change to a character as a result of his experiences or happenings. I suppose I simply did not get the point of the book. It was evil act after evil act ending as it began. Perhaps follow up books clear some of this up but truthfully I just can't care about these characters so I will not continue the series. It would have helped, if the author intends some sort of redemption, to bring some of that prior to the end of the book to encourage further reading or interest. Or, in the alternative, make the world itself so interesting that a reader might continue to further explore it. The author seems to have some talent. He did after all bring strong reactions to his characters as seen in the reviews.
My word, was The Weight of Blood (The Half-Orcs, #1) dark. Dark, dark, evil, dark, evil, makes my good side hurt, conscience screaming at me to stop reading and never open a novel again, dark. Also, it was free for as the blog "Pixel of Ink" informed me.
I'm thankful that I read this novel as it helped me clarify my position on dark fantasy I don't like it. I'd never read any dark fantasy before hand and never really knew that it was a category that could exist. Thanks to the author's note at the end of this novel, I now have realized that he was acting within a genre and it cleared up some of the confusion that I felt while reading the novel.
That said, I felt that this was a very interesting, if inherently evil, story that needed more. Something more. More depth. More description. More emotion. Even the evil felt rather flat. Perhaps a thesaurus?
This is the tale, as the synopsis will tell you, of two half-elf/half-orc brothers with names that are palindromes of one another. They were sold into servitude in childhood by a mother who didn't seem particularly taken with the emotions of parenthood (and once you read this novel and see the dearth of emotions on all topics, it won't be terribly hard to imagine that such a scenario is possible). As a result, the one whose name starts with a Q learns a small amount of necromancy while the one whose name begins with an H learns street smarts. And that is the entire back story as we open on a scene of Orcs (or possibly undead? It is hard to tell what with the lack of description.) attacking a human city which houses our two palindromic brothers. A necromancer of greater power, who I'd like to call The Big Baddie, is leading this army's charge.
From this opening scene, we are thrust out of the city and into a different town where The Big Baddie reappears and connects with Brother Q. Meanwhile, Brother H is still trying to figure out how to not die (spoiler it involves inhaling and exhaling) while mindlessly following orders from everyone he perceives as smarter than him and who tells him that they have his best interests at heart (spoiler they do not).
And so death of innocents, death of not-so-innocents, death of children, massive doom plotted, more death, some more death, giant gleaming death swords of death, more death, armies of undead, and a woman who somehow falls in love with Brother H (who at this point has exhibited even less emotional capacity than a lamprey) and betrays her entire race just to aid his death-causing while she secretly hopes, as all women do (spoiler no, they don't), to reform him to being a good guy by loving him hard enough. Oh, and death of those who are undead.
So read on, fair readers, if what you are looking for is a cathartic tale of evil run amok told in the most simplistic language with minimal character development and world building. This will be right up your alley!
I rated it 2 stars because the alt-text for that star says "I don't like it", and, in fact, ****I**** don't like it. You, however, might.
Kind of strange writing and a little odd to read allowed. Sometimes it felt like there was some kind of innuendo the author was unintentionally putting in. Easy read for a 9 hour car trip. Pretty standard triple act and a little predictable. I didn't feel the author did anything special with magic in the world and didn't take the time to explain it. It is a high magic setting where power is only described and doesn't seem to be measured clearly. There doesn't seem to be limits to magic and it's confusing sometimes why the people with magic don't just crush their enemies with a power the character conveniently can't use because the character is tired. I like the idea that their are half orc rejects living in society, but I didn't care for their responses to society. The parts about necromancy and needing to practice on freshly killed people was interesting and I was always waiting for better elaboration, but barely received a history of magic in the world.
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