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Excerpt |
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Demon
Attack
The
remaining windows blew open. The demons hurled themselves in one at a
time. Leahla charged. She spun and kicked. Her sword lopped off a head
and she stabbed another. More came. They busted through the walls. A
crash at the front door warned Adan there were demons on the other side.
They were trapped. Four demons jumped at Leahla. Adan hugged Maureen,
waiting for the moment they would die. From every direction demons
rushed in for the kill.
The door to
the house flew open, followed by an undulating war cry. Myron rushed in,
his crossbow aimed their way. He fired; the arrow ripped into a demon's
head. Its body dropped to the floor with a thud.
"Maureen!"
Myron yelled as he reloaded.
Aren rushed
in behind Myron with both swords drawn cutting down their foes. As Adan
and Maureen moved closer to protection, Leahla struggled in the corner.
Myron moved in front of Maureen and Adan while Aren leapt behind them
and saved their backs. Leahla killed another and she joined them by the
door.
Adan counted
six more demons. They charged Aren at the same time, hissing and
screaming with their claws pointed at his neck.
"Aren!" Aden
yelled.
But his
brother was a marvel as heads were severed, arms and claws hacked off.
Leahla moved in next to Aren. Together, they slaughtered the last of the
demons.
Aren,
breathing hard, sheathed his swords. "Are you two all right?" he asked
Adan and Maureen. Blood streamed down the side of his face. Adan nodded
and took Maureen by her hand.
"We have to
get out of here," Myron said. "They're everywhere." |
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Synopsis |
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Twenty-three years ago, the
Warriors of Ches were charged by their god Faral to find and secure an
artifact. Failure to do so would end in the destruction of the world.
They did fail. Now the demons have awakened and the vengeance of Faris,
Faral's brother and enemy is being waged upon the surviving Warriors,
their families and the places they live. The Warriors have kept their
past secret and have led productive and peaceful lives. Some are leaders
and even kings.
On the night of an annual festival, the home and town of
Darren Caynne, formally a Warrior of Ches, is targeted by the demons,
and the town is all but destroyed. Adan Caynne, a twin son of Darren is
the only one left of his family. After the attack, Adan has a dream that
his younger brother, Dex is still alive but in peril.
Adan leaves the
wreckage of his home and village and sets out to find his brother.
Before he can go far, Myron, a friend and brother to a girl Adan is in
love with, insists on going with him. Myron is a "never miss" with the
crossbow and trained in fighting. Adan is not a fighter but he now has
his father's sword-the Dragon Sword that has a secret his father had
kept hidden.
While Adan and Myron are searching aimlessly for Dex, more
towns and families are being attacked. Other family members of the
Warriors of Ches have left their besieged homes, intent upon their own
missions-but all with a common enemy: the Demon Vayle and his Dryden
warriors. When Adan and the others find themselves together and on the
same quest-to find answers to the betrayals and deceptions that have
come to light-the adventures begin.
The Wrath of Zar
is the first book in The Demons of Destiny fantasy series by Shayne
Easson.
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Review |
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At first, I was really into
the story in The Wrath of Zar. I sort of liked the main
character, Aden, but also thought he was a quite wimpy. His brother Aren
was really cool until he was killed. But after the first sixty pages or
so, the focus of the story shifts to Prince Riordan Adynall for about 30
pages, then goes back to Aden again for a few chapters.
Then the story
focuses on Princess Karyna. After 20 or so pages of this, my interest
really started to wane. I started reading less and less pages every day.
First it was 15, then ten, then five, until finally I just stood there
looking at the book thinking, "I have absolutely no interest in this
story whatsoever." Its too bad because I rarely give up on a book, but I
just couldn't read it anymore. I was bored silly.
I always find it so
hard when the story goes away from a main character for such a long
period of time. Plus, the main character is not very likable and I
didn't really bond with him at all. It is hard when the main character
starts off as a gutless coward in a Fantasy book. Sure, some kind of
magical beam did shoot out of his chest and kill a demon, but then Aden
never really thought about it very much afterward. Hmmm . . . if
something like that happened to me, I sure would try to figure out what
happened. Wouldn't you?
As for Princess Karyna, I didn't find myself
caring about her at all. I did like Prince Riordan, but we really didn't
get to know him much at all either before he was wrongly hailed off to
jail.
Overall, The Wrath of Zar just didn't do it for me at all.
I rated this book a 4 out of
10.
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