I could describe them, but I’m not gonna do better than the book itself.Īmong them is a renegade king, he who sired five royal heirs without ever unzipping his pants. There is never a dull moment, with the characters getting out of one scrape just to find themselves in another.Īnd this book has some terrific characters – the main POV character and the rest of Saga are flat out terrific. The action is well-plotted and easy to follow. The prose is easy-to-read-but-also-pretty. To enjoy that show, it’s not NECESSARY to be familiar with all of the King or Spielberg source material, but viewers with that knowledge might get more out of it. There are a LOT of references and Easter eggs for fans of fantasy and rock music, including quotes from other popular fantasy novels (like Game of Thrones and The Blade Itself) and references to some of the more obscure critters in the D&D Monster Manual. However, readers that have experience with (1) Dungeons and Dragons (2) fantasy literature (3) rock bands or (4) getting old might appreciate it more. It’s the first of a series, so anyone can pick it up and have a good time. There are no prerequisites to reading this book.

There is a lot of action, but it’s also really funny.* It feels like a mix of This is Spinal Tap!, Blues Brothers, The First Law Trilogy, The Lies of Locke Lamora, and playing a game of Dungeons and Dragons with your best friends from high school that you haven’t seen in a long time. It’s an epic adventure story in which some dudes get together to go rescue somebody. You know the expression “Don’t judge a book by its cover”? You really shouldn’t in this case. I thought this was going to be some hardcore, super bloody, depressing book about some barbarian viking tribe. My first impression of this book was wrong. Now, the daughter of Saga’s frontman is in danger, and it’s time to put the band back together for one last adventure.

And no band was bigger and badder than Saga, but it broke up years ago. Groups of adventurers – or “bands” – are the biggest celebrities in the world. Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames is a fantasy novel. “Please,” he prayed to whichever of Grandual’s gods was in charge of killing people at random with the corpses of chimeras, “grant me this one…fucking…thing.”

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