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Dead Weight: A Tale of the Faerie War #2
Dead Weight: Paladin: A Tale of the Faerie War
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NOT ALL FAERIE TALES HAVE HAPPY ENDINGS!
In this Second instalment of the serialized novel DEAD WEIGHT, Cendrine South is on the run. While she evades agents of the King of Faerie, she must locate her father's long-lost childhood friend and find a place to delve into her father's journal. What secrets from the Faerie War does it hold? Will those secrets help stop the next conflict between Earth and Faerie?
NOT ALL FAERIE TALES HAVE HAPPY ENDINGS!
In this Second instalment of the serialized novel DEAD WEIGHT, Cendrine South is on the run. While she evades agents of the King of Faerie, she must locate her father's long-lost childhood friend and find a place to delve into her father's journal. What secrets from the Faerie War does it hold? Will those secrets help stop the next conflict between Earth and Faerie?
- GenresFantasyUrban Fantasy
120 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 29, 2014
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About the author
M. Todd Gallowglas
62 books176 followersM Todd Gallowglas has been a professional storyteller at Renaissance Faires and Medieval Festivals for over twenty years. After receiving his Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University in 2009, he used his storytelling show as a platform to launch his fiction career. He is the author of the Tears of Rage and Halloween Jack series, which have spent time on various bestseller lists. He was a fiction contributor for Fantasy Flight Games and developed creative content for the reboot of the children's classic Reading Rainbow. Now he spends most of his time trying to find the perfect balance between family, writing, airsoft (because it's not as messy as paintball), and gaming while he's not off somewhere telling stories.
M Todd Gallowglas is a proud member of the Genre Underground.
M Todd Gallowglas is a proud member of the Genre Underground.
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August 2, 2014
I liked this. Another novella in the Dead Weight series, Paladin picks up the pace and gives us more of Cendrine (a character I wanted more of in the first installment) and a splash of some characters we're sure to read more about as the story develops. We hear/experience Tommy's story in Faerie, which was present-but-untold in the Boy Scout-centric first installment of Dead Weight (The Tombs.) Tommy's story is very good, and confirms an observation I made of the first book -- that the back-stories felt like they'd be more gripping than installment one.
The book gives me a lot of what I like (good characters, big story, surprises.) I whacked a whole star off this review because I do not like current geek culture references in this type of book. It breaks the reality the author is trying to create. A lot of readers may give the book an extra star simply because the author does this. Personal taste. Fortunately, it doesn't diminish the story itself.
Readers need to be aware that not only is this a novella (short book), it's also serialized.
The book gives me a lot of what I like (good characters, big story, surprises.) I whacked a whole star off this review because I do not like current geek culture references in this type of book. It breaks the reality the author is trying to create. A lot of readers may give the book an extra star simply because the author does this. Personal taste. Fortunately, it doesn't diminish the story itself.
Readers need to be aware that not only is this a novella (short book), it's also serialized.
August 3, 2014
Betrayals, unlikely alliances, fantastic fight scenes, and a goodly amount of snark round out this book.
Dead Weight: Paladin picks up immediately after book one.
Book one focused on Boy Scout. Book two focuses on Cendrine. Both are complex characters trying to survive in a world gone fey. While an escalation of war is building up in the background, Cendrine is working to discover how her story is going. There is a story-within-the story that is filling in more information about the characters and their motivations.
A quick, but interesting continuation of the story, the author is giving just enough tantalizing details to make you crave more. My only disappointment is that the book was so short. I really like this universe, and am genuinely curious as to where the story is going.
Dead Weight: Paladin picks up immediately after book one.
Book one focused on Boy Scout. Book two focuses on Cendrine. Both are complex characters trying to survive in a world gone fey. While an escalation of war is building up in the background, Cendrine is working to discover how her story is going. There is a story-within-the story that is filling in more information about the characters and their motivations.
A quick, but interesting continuation of the story, the author is giving just enough tantalizing details to make you crave more. My only disappointment is that the book was so short. I really like this universe, and am genuinely curious as to where the story is going.
August 5, 2014
Even better than the first one!!
Even better than the first one!!
I picked this up and literally could not put it down! I stayed up until 3:30 in the morning reading. Paladin just sucks you into the story and you don't want to stop reading until you're done. Awesome tale...wish the next installment was ready so I could keep reading!!!!
Even better than the first one!!
I picked this up and literally could not put it down! I stayed up until 3:30 in the morning reading. Paladin just sucks you into the story and you don't want to stop reading until you're done. Awesome tale...wish the next installment was ready so I could keep reading!!!!
March 6, 2015
This was even better than the first part. I look forward to part 3. Gallowglas is the master of unreliable storytellers. It works really well when a plot twist is revealed, because you don't see it coming. I also love the clever pop culture references. The sly references to Firefly and Ghostbusters had me grinning from ear to ear.
April 24, 2016
Very enjoyable, fast-paced read. Not YA, exactly what I wanted.
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Have a complete review of the first four books at
http://guildmastergaming.blogspot.com...
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