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Socks & Sorcery: Tales of The Grey Company
The First 4 Adventures of The Grey Company
Fifteen years ago, Thvoren Flaxenhair hung up his loincloth and retired from adventuring. But when one of his old companions dies and leaves a mysterious locked box, he finds himself back on the road and quickly discovers that he and his friends might not be as heroic as they once were …
This volume collects four previously published
The Overdue Elfenstone; The Dragon Gambit; Elf, Wind & Fire; and The Socks Perilous.
Contains strong language, British spelling and Elves.
Fifteen years ago, Thvoren Flaxenhair hung up his loincloth and retired from adventuring. But when one of his old companions dies and leaves a mysterious locked box, he finds himself back on the road and quickly discovers that he and his friends might not be as heroic as they once were …
This volume collects four previously published
The Overdue Elfenstone; The Dragon Gambit; Elf, Wind & Fire; and The Socks Perilous.
Contains strong language, British spelling and Elves.
409 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 24, 2022
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January 9, 2025
'Socks & Sorcery: Tales of the Grey Company'
by L J Chappell
DNF
Not my cup of tea...what with all the "murders for laughs"...or whatever lame excuses the MC conjured up, at least no redeemable reasoning behind most of them.
With apologies to the author, as it seemed as if they were trying to write a comedy...(?)...but I failed to understand the character's reasoning behind most of the murders, and there were a LOT!
I loathed the MC in particular, and his buddies, who generally just followed his suggestions and who mostly just seemed to be looking for excuses to kill...people or whomever/whatever else they felt like offing in the name of their quest.
I really tried to follow this storyline, but when it came to the part about his crew bumming a ride on the river-raft manned by orcs, and then the MC deciding it would be a great "diversion" if he & his crew killed all the dolphins playing in the wake of the raft...I called it quits!
Yeah, that's right (not) ...killing dolphins for a fun diversion to distract the orcs, just in case the orcs decided to flip their hospitality around and instead of granting his band of merry men a safe passage ride along the river, deciding to kill them on a whim instead (no mention of the orcs being anything but friendly, up to this point). So there there was no rhyme nor reason for these killings...except a "fun" diversion!
I love dolphins and this whole storyline made me sick!
I'm not even gonna donate this book; it's going right into the trash bin, or burn it! That's how much I hated it! I will never read anything else by this author.
If I could give minus 0 stars, I would.
by L J Chappell
DNF
Not my cup of tea...what with all the "murders for laughs"...or whatever lame excuses the MC conjured up, at least no redeemable reasoning behind most of them.
With apologies to the author, as it seemed as if they were trying to write a comedy...(?)...but I failed to understand the character's reasoning behind most of the murders, and there were a LOT!
I loathed the MC in particular, and his buddies, who generally just followed his suggestions and who mostly just seemed to be looking for excuses to kill...people or whomever/whatever else they felt like offing in the name of their quest.
I really tried to follow this storyline, but when it came to the part about his crew bumming a ride on the river-raft manned by orcs, and then the MC deciding it would be a great "diversion" if he & his crew killed all the dolphins playing in the wake of the raft...I called it quits!
Yeah, that's right (not) ...killing dolphins for a fun diversion to distract the orcs, just in case the orcs decided to flip their hospitality around and instead of granting his band of merry men a safe passage ride along the river, deciding to kill them on a whim instead (no mention of the orcs being anything but friendly, up to this point). So there there was no rhyme nor reason for these killings...except a "fun" diversion!
I love dolphins and this whole storyline made me sick!
I'm not even gonna donate this book; it's going right into the trash bin, or burn it! That's how much I hated it! I will never read anything else by this author.
If I could give minus 0 stars, I would.
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