Dreadknights: For the Love of the Guild

by Tony Breeden

Otherworld is the biggest game in the universe, played by a lucky few on a terraformed alien world. When her gaming guild of ogres, trolls and goblyns wins a chance for glory, Christine Johanssen aka Ogress Bloodskull finds there is more to gaming than just survival. Sometimes you have to risk it all.

'Dreadknights: For the Love of the Guild' gives readers another look at some of the exciting scenes from Tony Breeden's Luckbane from the perspective of a different cast of characters, the dread Firelord's minions.

54 pages, Paperback

First published September 14, 2013

About the author

Tony Breeden is an author, speaker, and artist from West Virginia. He got the writing bug as a child when his late aunt Sharon helped him make his very first book about dinosaurs, vigorously illustrated in crayon.

Johnny Came Home, published September 28, 2012, is his first book.

Luckbane, the first title in the Øtherworld series, was published on September 13 of '13.

He is currently writing Volume Two of Gray Barker's Book of Monsters.

Read excerpts of his books at http://wattpad.com/TonyBreeden

Reviews

[Jennifer Lea · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is good ... excellent company alongside the author's fellow manuscript 'Luckbane.'
It is basically the same story, another guild, who was pulled from the scene and didn't get to do all of the things that Jarrod Luckbane's group had the chance to do.

The book is concluded with an appendix that allows you to place each of the events throughout the book into its designated location within the main read. It doesn't flow as well as 'Luckbane,' but then again, it is what it is: cut-scenes.

I got my hands on this through a free Kindle download which is now back to the regular $.99 price. That said, if you have read or plan to read 'Luckbane,' you will want this and it is worth your time and your dollar. Also, check out Breeden's Facebook Page for the Otherworld novels for a deeper look.

[Tim Chaffey · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mr. Breeden has put together a short story that consists of a few scenes that were pulled from the final version of Luckbane; however, these scenes weren't pulled because they weren't any good. I just read Dreadknights: For the Love of the Guild earlier today and thoroughly enjoyed that too. It follows a group of ogres and goblins that fight against Luckbane and the other champions on a couple of occasions in the book. So you get to see some of these battles through the eyes of the bad guys, the Dreadknight Guild (although they become likable bad guys when you read this), and you also get to find out more about the characters in Luckbane. For anyone who enjoys Luckbane, this short story will be well worth the $.99 investment. I hope that the author will do this with some of the other groups in the story.

[Steve Justice · Rating 3 out of 5]

Dreadknights is a short collection of scenes cut from the novel Luckbane, and despite those scenes being well-written, this book really could do with being put together properly. There is definitely a story to be told here, the tale from the other side of the battles, but in it's current format it is just a disparate collection of scenes, like out-takes from a movie, that make absolutely no sense if you haven't read Luckbane and still have no coherence even if you have.

If you enjoyed Luckbane, you may enjoy reading this, but I think Tony Breeden would be much better off taking the time to turn this into a real novel or novella rather than leaving it as it is.

Nonetheless, I have awarded three stars due to the quality of the writing. Just don't try to read it without reading Luckbane first, like I did!