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Stone Soldiers #1-3
Stone Soldiers: Omnibus #1
(A collection of the first three books in the Stone Soldiers series that pits supersoldiers against the supernatural.)
They have been living among us for millenia, hiding in the shadows. Some believe in them, some do not, but when the mythical become a threat, the U.S. military sends in their own supersoldiers to defend against the supernatural.
After millenia trapped in separate tombs, two shapeshifting giants are set free in the modern world. Able to take the form, the memories and even the powers of anyone by ripping out and eating their hearts, the giants blaze a trail of carnage across the face of America.
The United States responds quickly, sending in the Black Sabers, Detachment 1039, to combat this latest supernatural threat. But Colonel Mark Kenslir and his living stone soldiers are no match for the first shapeshifter. When the Colonel returns to life after a brief battle, he must complete his last mission and stop the shapeshifter with only the help of two brave teens.
With one shapeshifter defeated, Kenslir must rebuild a team of supersoldiers to defend America. But the shapeshifters regroup as well and bring the fight to the Colonel. Breaking into the Black Sabers' base of operations in Miami, the giants plunder the supernatural riches stored there, but ultimately are stopped.
Defeated, but not killed, the last shapeshifter flees to Mexico, posing as the Mayan god Kukulcan to gather worshipers and sacrifices. Colonel Kenslir and his new team must head south and stop the last shapeshifter once and for all, before it amasses enough power to become unstoppable.
They have been living among us for millenia, hiding in the shadows. Some believe in them, some do not, but when the mythical become a threat, the U.S. military sends in their own supersoldiers to defend against the supernatural.
After millenia trapped in separate tombs, two shapeshifting giants are set free in the modern world. Able to take the form, the memories and even the powers of anyone by ripping out and eating their hearts, the giants blaze a trail of carnage across the face of America.
The United States responds quickly, sending in the Black Sabers, Detachment 1039, to combat this latest supernatural threat. But Colonel Mark Kenslir and his living stone soldiers are no match for the first shapeshifter. When the Colonel returns to life after a brief battle, he must complete his last mission and stop the shapeshifter with only the help of two brave teens.
With one shapeshifter defeated, Kenslir must rebuild a team of supersoldiers to defend America. But the shapeshifters regroup as well and bring the fight to the Colonel. Breaking into the Black Sabers' base of operations in Miami, the giants plunder the supernatural riches stored there, but ultimately are stopped.
Defeated, but not killed, the last shapeshifter flees to Mexico, posing as the Mayan god Kukulcan to gather worshipers and sacrifices. Colonel Kenslir and his new team must head south and stop the last shapeshifter once and for all, before it amasses enough power to become unstoppable.
550 pages, ebook
First published December 25, 2012
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C.E. Martin
59 books54 followersUSAF Veteran and retired criminal investigator C.E. Martin lives in the American Midwest with his wife and two daughters, embellishing accounts of supernatural and paranormal happenings he has personally experienced or heard of over his career to create over-the-top tales of two-fisted Pulp action. When not writing or spending time with his family, C.E. can be found binge-watching scifi series and modern B-Movies, battling virtual villains on X-Box, or biding his time until the next trip to the gun range.
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April 2, 2019
This one seemed like a short story, but I don’t think it would qualify as that short. It seemed to go really fast. I guess the reason it did is that you should already be familiar with most of the characters by now, having read the fist two books, right? Well, if you didn’t read the first two books first, then you’re kind of strange and probably lost and sick. Yeah, these stories, if you’re not familiar with the Stone Soldier series, could easily make you sick.
This is a continuation of all the blood and guts spilling we had in the other two books. Without going into the whole background of the story, we have a giant shapeshifter who was created some where around the time before Noah and the flood. He survived some how in a tomb that was uncovered by modern day man and promptly opened which brought this creature to life. Now he lives by consuming the hearts of humans! Yes, he just walks up to you, sticks his huge six-fingered hand under your sternum and up your rib cage until he has he hand around your beating heart. Then he just rips it out! Of course you’re sill alive while this is all going on and even after he stands in front of you with your beating heart in his hand, you kind of notice that he starts eating it, and then you fall over dead.
The creature in this book is called Tezcahtlip. I’ll let you figure out how to pronounce that. Anyway, he’s the surviving brother of two giants that were in the last book, one of which was thankfully killed by Colonel Mark Kenslir. Col. Kenslir, as you recall, is the Commander of Section 1039, Special Operation cell, a.k.a. Black Sabers. His group has become a mixture of survivors. Josie is a young kid, about 18, who’s there because she was a kidnap victim and well, kind of special to Col. Kenslir. Then her boy friend, Jimmy, who is, or was a scrawny kid Josie knew back in neighborhood who also got kidnapped. Jimmy is dead, but also alive sometimes. There are three other Stone Soldiers which I won’t go into detail on since you can read about them yourself. Let’s just say, they need to help Col. Kenslir fight this giant shapeshifter or everyone’s going to die a slow and painful death, again.
Tezcahtlip goes to Alcatraz where the US has consolidated all the parahumans that have been caught doing something illegal. Here they are drugged into oblivion without anyone caring much about how long they stay that way. Tezchatlip also inherits the abilities and memories of any who he eats. So he stops off at Alcatraz and begins to eat. Then he see a lovely female doctor who he decides must have a delicious heart so he rips it from her and consumes it right in front of her. She dies and then later jumps on Tezcahtlip’s back and starts ripping his body apart! Ok, yes, I said she died, but since she’s a vampire, she can’t really die just by losing her heart. So, Tezcahtlip decides he eaten everyone in Alcatraz and is really getting annoyed with this crazy lady on his back, he changes into his usual form of a monstrous red dragon and flies off for Mexico.
OK, now is where the rest of the story starts. Col. Kenslir comes to Alcatraz to see all the damage and he recruits the young vampire doctor making sure she promises not to eat anyone, suck their blood out or suck their life-force from them. Then the entire team heads for Mexico. Read the bloody book to find out what happens from here on.
Ok, if you don’t like blood and guts, then it would be best you stayed away from this series. After three books of the stuff, I’m getting kind of acclimated to the messy parts, but there sure is a lot of it. If it’s not someones heart being ripped out, then it’s bones breaking and brains getting dissolved or whatever unpleasant thing you can imagine. I like the writing although this would be best presented in a comic book than just a normal ebook. I think I might read some more stories of the Stone Soldiers, but for now, I think I’ll read a Winnie-the-Poo book so I can calm down.
This is a continuation of all the blood and guts spilling we had in the other two books. Without going into the whole background of the story, we have a giant shapeshifter who was created some where around the time before Noah and the flood. He survived some how in a tomb that was uncovered by modern day man and promptly opened which brought this creature to life. Now he lives by consuming the hearts of humans! Yes, he just walks up to you, sticks his huge six-fingered hand under your sternum and up your rib cage until he has he hand around your beating heart. Then he just rips it out! Of course you’re sill alive while this is all going on and even after he stands in front of you with your beating heart in his hand, you kind of notice that he starts eating it, and then you fall over dead.
The creature in this book is called Tezcahtlip. I’ll let you figure out how to pronounce that. Anyway, he’s the surviving brother of two giants that were in the last book, one of which was thankfully killed by Colonel Mark Kenslir. Col. Kenslir, as you recall, is the Commander of Section 1039, Special Operation cell, a.k.a. Black Sabers. His group has become a mixture of survivors. Josie is a young kid, about 18, who’s there because she was a kidnap victim and well, kind of special to Col. Kenslir. Then her boy friend, Jimmy, who is, or was a scrawny kid Josie knew back in neighborhood who also got kidnapped. Jimmy is dead, but also alive sometimes. There are three other Stone Soldiers which I won’t go into detail on since you can read about them yourself. Let’s just say, they need to help Col. Kenslir fight this giant shapeshifter or everyone’s going to die a slow and painful death, again.
Tezcahtlip goes to Alcatraz where the US has consolidated all the parahumans that have been caught doing something illegal. Here they are drugged into oblivion without anyone caring much about how long they stay that way. Tezchatlip also inherits the abilities and memories of any who he eats. So he stops off at Alcatraz and begins to eat. Then he see a lovely female doctor who he decides must have a delicious heart so he rips it from her and consumes it right in front of her. She dies and then later jumps on Tezcahtlip’s back and starts ripping his body apart! Ok, yes, I said she died, but since she’s a vampire, she can’t really die just by losing her heart. So, Tezcahtlip decides he eaten everyone in Alcatraz and is really getting annoyed with this crazy lady on his back, he changes into his usual form of a monstrous red dragon and flies off for Mexico.
OK, now is where the rest of the story starts. Col. Kenslir comes to Alcatraz to see all the damage and he recruits the young vampire doctor making sure she promises not to eat anyone, suck their blood out or suck their life-force from them. Then the entire team heads for Mexico. Read the bloody book to find out what happens from here on.
Ok, if you don’t like blood and guts, then it would be best you stayed away from this series. After three books of the stuff, I’m getting kind of acclimated to the messy parts, but there sure is a lot of it. If it’s not someones heart being ripped out, then it’s bones breaking and brains getting dissolved or whatever unpleasant thing you can imagine. I like the writing although this would be best presented in a comic book than just a normal ebook. I think I might read some more stories of the Stone Soldiers, but for now, I think I’ll read a Winnie-the-Poo book so I can calm down.
September 5, 2018
Great series
April 13, 2015
Book 1: Mythical I read this and reviewed it separately before realizing the omnibus edition was available. It was still cheaper to buy the omnibus version than books 2 and 3 separately.
Book 2: Brothers in Stone If I read this title separately, I'd give it 4.5 stars. It's a good story with lots of action. I like the characters and it's clear who the "good guys" and "bad guys" are. Looking forward to the next title in this omnibus edition.
Book 3: Blood and Stone If read separately, I would have given this story a 5. More characters to like or dislike, more powers and magical abilities tossed in. This was a fun book to read. Facing perhaps the toughest evil being of all time, one who has taken the time to consume some of the most powerful beings alive and, by so doing, adding their abilities to his own, the Colonel and his crew have their work cut out for them.
Book 2: Brothers in Stone If I read this title separately, I'd give it 4.5 stars. It's a good story with lots of action. I like the characters and it's clear who the "good guys" and "bad guys" are. Looking forward to the next title in this omnibus edition.
Book 3: Blood and Stone If read separately, I would have given this story a 5. More characters to like or dislike, more powers and magical abilities tossed in. This was a fun book to read. Facing perhaps the toughest evil being of all time, one who has taken the time to consume some of the most powerful beings alive and, by so doing, adding their abilities to his own, the Colonel and his crew have their work cut out for them.
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