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This is a story about a group of people who don't really want to be a group struggling against a common enemy: a tyrannical, god-killing magelord. Or that's sort of what it's about, but I'll get to that later.

The city of Dorminia is not a pleasant place to live. Crime is rampant and often perpetrated by the Red Watch who are supposed to keep the citizens safe. In the bowels of the city, a small resistance group is trying to make a difference. In a tower not far away, a good man with a horrible job is trying to do as little harm as he can while serving his lord, whom he knows is not on the side of justice but is better than the alternative.

Then the tyrannical mage lord goes and dumps a billion gallons of ocean onto an enemy city, killing everyone, all because the rival city beat his navy in a war for control of some magical islands. Now it's a free for all as the tyrant scrambles to gather more raw magic before another magelord can strike him while he's weakened. The rebels are scrambling to shut off the tyrant's only supply of raw magic. Agents for the White Lady, a somewhat benevolent mage lord, are trying to kill the tyrant and in the north, a barbarian sorceress is trying to come to grips with her own limitations as her people are being slaughtered by demons and famin. In a volatile mix like that, god only knows what might happen. Or not. All the gods are dead.

Let me start off by saying this book is not for everyone. It's very liberally sprinkled with foul language and uncomfortably detailed descriptions of things like an old man struggling to piss in an alley past his bladder stones. I found it very hard at first to care about these characters at first. The entire first chapter seemed to serve no purpose other than introducing a few plot ideas because I found myself actually cheering for "the bad guy" when the city was destroyed the same way I might have cheered on God when he smote Sodom and Gomorra. But for all the gratuitous vulgarity, the story did start getting interesting in a train-wreck kind of way, so I kept reading.

I have no blooming clue when, where, why or how I started to care about the fate of the main characters, but I found myself at four in the morning gasping and wailing "NO!" because I had no more pages to turn and I was not ready for the story to be done. Holy cow. If you are a fan of Steven King's "Dark Tower" series, you are going to really like this book. If you like dark fantasy, you are going to like this book.

Four stars, because I really could have done without some of the descriptive details of pissing past bladder stones, but yeah. Give this book a try. On a weekend, when it won't matter that you read all night because you couldn't put it down. I'm off to nurse my book hang-over with copious amounts of coffee now.


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The Grim Company Luke SCULL 9781781851319 Books Reviews

A lot of the reviews led me to believe that this book was very dark, and one of the grimmest of the GrimDark subgenre. It reads like Joe Abercrombie's YA novels, and many of the characters seem like a direct ripoff. The Halfmage is a weak version of Glokta. Kanye is Logan without the attitude. The guy with the iron heart is like Colonel West. It even uses the term "kicked him in the fruits"! I was just waiting for one of the Highlanders say "you gotta be realistic."

It's not a bad book but it is NOT particularly grim or dark at all.
I have been plowing through fantasy novels for 3 months. Having read everything I could find by well know authors, I roll the dice on new and lesser known authors, and have been pleasantly surprised by many of them...This one however dropped far short of surprising me. The story is ok and sets up the series while leaving me quite devoid on satisfaction for having made it through the first book. Nothing like watching characters struggle through trial after trial, only to find that they have accomplished nothing but evil in their quest for good. One of the characters is such an idiot I almost quit reading the book every time a segment followed him. However, as I said in the subject, it is readable if you can't find anything else, and you can find out if it gets any better in books two or three. As for me, I'm going to roll the dice on another author and you can let me know how this one turns out, because I am done. For those other reviewers that gave this 5 stars and led me to read it...have your heads examined.
I enjoyed this book. Its pretty dark and the setting is depressive at times. The story comes to us from a world where the wizards rose up to kill the gods at some point in the past. As a result this caused huge consequence that people are currently dealing with in during the current timeline.

The plot is good, and doesn't follow the standard mold of the normal good vs evil, at least not yet. I feel that this might have more of a role due to some foreshadowing, but I am only half way through the second book at this time. What I liked most about this book is that I didn't hate the bad guy, and I could even follow the logic that lead him to where he was. I find this to be what drove me to like the book as much as I did. I always hated books were the bad guy is bad for the sake of there needs to be a bad guy for the heroes to face off against.
Fantastic new fantasy novel. The Grim Company does not follow an actual group of companions, but follows a number of flawed protagonists through a series of events in a world ruined by war. The Age of Ruin is the result of a war between powerful wizards and the gods, the wizards won, and the survivors are immortal Mage Lords who rule the land. While the company plots to overthrow the mage lord Salazar ruler of the city of Dorminia for his brutal atrocities, we are also see events transpiring in the far north called the High Fangs.

This is high fantasy, magic is about as overt as it gets and there is mention of other intelligent races besides humans. But at it's core is a world gone completely wrong. And yet you see at the edges that not all is as it seems.
As others have said, this is true epic sword and sorcery fantasy in the vein of Abercrombie and Erickson and Anthony Ryan and Miles Cameron, my favorite authors. Dark and gritty with a complex storyline, lots of characters, and huge scope. The protagonists really have a tough road ahead, and this first installment sets up what's to come while being a tale filled with huge battles and some hope for the future of the good guys. But again they're really up against it in this one, and I can't wait for the next installment which I will preorder the moment it's on sale. Luke Scull has already joined the ranks of the current great authors with his storytelling skills and plotting and deep characterizations. This series will be a classic.
This is a story about a group of people who don't really want to be a group struggling against a common enemy a tyrannical, god-killing magelord. Or that's sort of what it's about, but I'll get to that later.

The city of Dorminia is not a pleasant place to live. Crime is rampant and often perpetrated by the Red Watch who are supposed to keep the citizens safe. In the bowels of the city, a small resistance group is trying to make a difference. In a tower not far away, a good man with a horrible job is trying to do as little harm as he can while serving his lord, whom he knows is not on the side of justice but is better than the alternative.

Then the tyrannical mage lord goes and dumps a billion gallons of ocean onto an enemy city, killing everyone, all because the rival city beat his navy in a war for control of some magical islands. Now it's a free for all as the tyrant scrambles to gather more raw magic before another magelord can strike him while he's weakened. The rebels are scrambling to shut off the tyrant's only supply of raw magic. Agents for the White Lady, a somewhat benevolent mage lord, are trying to kill the tyrant and in the north, a barbarian sorceress is trying to come to grips with her own limitations as her people are being slaughtered by demons and famin. In a volatile mix like that, god only knows what might happen. Or not. All the gods are dead.

Let me start off by saying this book is not for everyone. It's very liberally sprinkled with foul language and uncomfortably detailed descriptions of things like an old man struggling to piss in an alley past his bladder stones. I found it very hard at first to care about these characters at first. The entire first chapter seemed to serve no purpose other than introducing a few plot ideas because I found myself actually cheering for "the bad guy" when the city was destroyed the same way I might have cheered on God when he smote Sodom and Gomorra. But for all the gratuitous vulgarity, the story did start getting interesting in a train-wreck kind of way, so I kept reading.

I have no blooming clue when, where, why or how I started to care about the fate of the main characters, but I found myself at four in the morning gasping and wailing "NO!" because I had no more pages to turn and I was not ready for the story to be done. Holy cow. If you are a fan of Steven King's "Dark Tower" series, you are going to really like this book. If you like dark fantasy, you are going to like this book.

Four stars, because I really could have done without some of the descriptive details of pissing past bladder stones, but yeah. Give this book a try. On a weekend, when it won't matter that you read all night because you couldn't put it down. I'm off to nurse my book hang-over with copious amounts of coffee now.