Orcs Bad Blood I (Gollancz S.F.)
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The original Orcs trilogy ended with Stryke and his band of Orcs finding the ancestral Orc home hidden in another dimension. Orcs Bad Blood will tell the story of their hectic adventures in the other dimensions as they attempt to find peace for their race and escape the ever greedy, savage expansion of mankind. Fast moving, tongue-in-cheek and full of sorcery and bloodshed these are the perfect reads for the fantasy reader who wants a little fresh perspective on the endless war between good and evil.
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Stan Nicholls has been a reviewer and interviewer in the UK for more than 20 years and is a key figure on the genre scene. He writes a regular column for TIME OUT and contributes to both INTERZONE and STARBURST. Since the original Orcs trilogy his Quicksilver fantasy trilogy has been an international hit.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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I loved the first Orc trilogy. It took an unusual twist on the fantasy genre - orcs as good guys and humans as fanatic invaders - but this first book in a new trilogy, after the events of the first one, is hugely disappointing. As another reviewer has pointed out, there is little plot and little characterisation, the latter a fault I also found with James Barclay's second Raven series. A shame, as Nicholl's "Quicksilver" trilogy was a mature and complex development after Orcs. With Joe Abercrombie and the like rapidly regenerating the tiring sword and sorcery genre, Orcs II needs a rethink. Repetition is not reinvention and this book feels like wheel spinning.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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I enjoyed the author's first Orc trilogy, quite fun to have the aggressive Orc perspective! So picked this up knowing it would be more of the same, light easy reading that would be enjoyable but not set the world alight!
And I was disappointed. There is a re-cap at the start for new readers to the saga and then our little Orc chums are off through a magical portal and almost straight into combat against a bunch of re-animated corpses. Quite why these corpses re-animate is never quite explained. Then a brief respite and...another battle. And the whole book is like that, a vague plot linked by a number of scenes where the Orcs mix it big time. It got a little repetitive and, dare I say it, a little boring. Insufficient plot and character development and while the humour is still there, we have seen it before and it felt a little forced and tired. I 'might' have pushed this to an average three stars on the basis that it does not pretend to be anything else but a fun Orc romp, but this book came to a very abrupt end, obviously leading towards the next book. So if you buy this, you will be left somewhat wanting or having to buy the next one. If you are really keen on this, wait a year until this trilogy gets sold in one volume, at least then you can get the whole story in one hit.
But this left me with insufficient reward for the reading time invested and I probably not bother with any more.
And I was disappointed. There is a re-cap at the start for new readers to the saga and then our little Orc chums are off through a magical portal and almost straight into combat against a bunch of re-animated corpses. Quite why these corpses re-animate is never quite explained. Then a brief respite and...another battle. And the whole book is like that, a vague plot linked by a number of scenes where the Orcs mix it big time. It got a little repetitive and, dare I say it, a little boring. Insufficient plot and character development and while the humour is still there, we have seen it before and it felt a little forced and tired. I 'might' have pushed this to an average three stars on the basis that it does not pretend to be anything else but a fun Orc romp, but this book came to a very abrupt end, obviously leading towards the next book. So if you buy this, you will be left somewhat wanting or having to buy the next one. If you are really keen on this, wait a year until this trilogy gets sold in one volume, at least then you can get the whole story in one hit.
But this left me with insufficient reward for the reading time invested and I probably not bother with any more.
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I had to have this after reading 'Orcs' on holiday. Brilliant! I think in a past life I was probably an orc myself. My husband thinks I probably still am.
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I liked it better than other reviewers but . . .
. . . I haven't read the first trilogy so I found the inversion of roles (Orcs as hero and humans as corrupt oppressors) refreshing. Read more
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