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The Orcs are back! The epic conclusion to the internationally bestselling double trilogy.
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Stan Nicholls' Orcs have found an army of followers. These are Orcs who have fought a vicious battle for survival against the encroaching plague of humanity as it has poured across their world and the worlds of others. Now, in this the sixth volume, the battle reaches a bloody conclusion where the Orcs will need all their legendary martial prowess and their notorious brutality to survive.
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Format:Paperback
I've read Stan Nicholls Orcs series since it began and have grown to like the characters and settings in the stories, it is refreshing to see what people refer to as having heroes in a story who are down, dirty and ugly, this makes it more compelling when the heroes, the orcs in question, do great things, they seem more human because of it rather then just paragons of power.
That said, I was somewhat let down by the events of this book, the last in the current Bad Blood series.
(If you do not want hints as spoilers, don't read on).
The bad blood series started off kind of undertoned from the previous one, with the orcs shown somewhere softer then before. This changed a bit when they began there journey to bring about Jennesta's death after her own father failed to do so years before.
The drive in this series was quite odd, because with the instrumentals the orcs seemed to just keep jumping from world to world well chasing over Jennestra. One thing about this trilogy was unlike the last one, there seemed to be more story drawn from the orcs travelling around then fighting or interacting.
The biggest letdown in the series came with the final book, because well in this trilogy it had so much development around characters, hints of one of them being a traitor, the relationship between the humans in the warband with the rest, as well as all the offshot elements the wolverines meet along the way from other worlds.
However, disappointment came when most of the final book was about the wolverines chasing down Jennesta, running across landscapes to try and reach there final goal and the final conflict with her arch rival... and yet the final battle, the conclusion, the revalation to the story after all this time was writen out in just 1 final chapter.
It felt more like so much of the story was wasted on this journey across barren landscape, and it left hardly no time for development on the final conflict, the character development, the shock of betrayal, the fate of some characters, it was all wrapped up so quick it felt like so much wasted time, Unlike the last trilogy where it seemed to wrap things up quite well.
I would certainly say if you enjoy the first trilogy of the orcs, try this, but don't expect the same epic feeling the first had, I felt quite lackluster by the end of this one.
That said, I was somewhat let down by the events of this book, the last in the current Bad Blood series.
(If you do not want hints as spoilers, don't read on).
The bad blood series started off kind of undertoned from the previous one, with the orcs shown somewhere softer then before. This changed a bit when they began there journey to bring about Jennesta's death after her own father failed to do so years before.
The drive in this series was quite odd, because with the instrumentals the orcs seemed to just keep jumping from world to world well chasing over Jennestra. One thing about this trilogy was unlike the last one, there seemed to be more story drawn from the orcs travelling around then fighting or interacting.
The biggest letdown in the series came with the final book, because well in this trilogy it had so much development around characters, hints of one of them being a traitor, the relationship between the humans in the warband with the rest, as well as all the offshot elements the wolverines meet along the way from other worlds.
However, disappointment came when most of the final book was about the wolverines chasing down Jennesta, running across landscapes to try and reach there final goal and the final conflict with her arch rival... and yet the final battle, the conclusion, the revalation to the story after all this time was writen out in just 1 final chapter.
It felt more like so much of the story was wasted on this journey across barren landscape, and it left hardly no time for development on the final conflict, the character development, the shock of betrayal, the fate of some characters, it was all wrapped up so quick it felt like so much wasted time, Unlike the last trilogy where it seemed to wrap things up quite well.
I would certainly say if you enjoy the first trilogy of the orcs, try this, but don't expect the same epic feeling the first had, I felt quite lackluster by the end of this one.
Format:Paperback
Totally in agreement with other reviewers. I liked the Orcs omnibus (the first 3 books) a lot. Quicksilver was OK. Bad Blood couldn't be more aptly named. Repetitive, boring and frankly just incredibly badly written. We KNOW Standeven is obsessed by the stars - stop going on about it every chapter! Haskeer needs some character development - it's not enough just being cross all the time. Why doesn't Jennesta just fry the Orcs with magic? it smacks of James Bond villains plotting Bond's death with a fiendish contraption that he can get of rather than just shooting him. And the world hopping - enough already. Don't write another Stan, you are done. Read Jim Butcher instead.
Format:Hardcover
Orcs Bad Blood III: Inferno: v. 3 (Gollancz)
A real disappointment this. The first book was great, full of action, imaginative scenarios, inspired story-telling. This trilogy lost its way mid-through the 2nd book and by the time this final instalment arrived - a year late - it became obvious that the author was just going through the motions, churning out his 300+ pages. A litany of boring pointless incident after incident which do nothing to progress the plot or interest the reader, the part with the Krake(n) on the island one such example, banal and irrelevant. Make no mistake, I'm a huge fan of Stan Nicholls, the first Orcs series was 5* and the Quicksilver trilogy is marvellous. I normally fly through his books but this one took an age, it's so insipid. I got the impression that when he was supposed to be writing this book he was concentrating on his graphic novel and this 3rd instalment is almost an afterthought, a chore he had to perform. It's certainly one to read it.
A real disappointment this. The first book was great, full of action, imaginative scenarios, inspired story-telling. This trilogy lost its way mid-through the 2nd book and by the time this final instalment arrived - a year late - it became obvious that the author was just going through the motions, churning out his 300+ pages. A litany of boring pointless incident after incident which do nothing to progress the plot or interest the reader, the part with the Krake(n) on the island one such example, banal and irrelevant. Make no mistake, I'm a huge fan of Stan Nicholls, the first Orcs series was 5* and the Quicksilver trilogy is marvellous. I normally fly through his books but this one took an age, it's so insipid. I got the impression that when he was supposed to be writing this book he was concentrating on his graphic novel and this 3rd instalment is almost an afterthought, a chore he had to perform. It's certainly one to read it.
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