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Mud and Horn Sword and Sparrow
A dramatic, poetic fantasy adventure through time and danger. Are we all we dream ourselves to be? Can love outlast time? Will valor hold true in the darkest hour? Some dare to answer, they are called Mud and Horn, Sword and Sparrow.
158 pages, Paperback
Published February 23, 2016
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June 13, 2017
This book was really good. I read the entire thing more or less in a single sitting. It has all the meat and potatoes of a really great story. The only thing I wish it had was... more. I have so many questions! About the characters, about the history of the world etc.
Seriously though. Very easy read, very compelling, leaves you wanting more. Really excellent work.
Great work Hankerin'!
Seriously though. Very easy read, very compelling, leaves you wanting more. Really excellent work.
Great work Hankerin'!
March 23, 2019
Started this one awhile back. The author is a gamer, as I am and runs a really great YouTube channel called Drunkens and Dragons. This book is very obviously his first book and I did enjoy it. It will not be for everyone and it is fantastical and strange, as well as thrilling and action packed. I do want to read the next book in this trilogy because I want to see him improve, and I feel he will. I see how he runs his games and want to support a fellow gamer and imagination forge.
This is hard to read in places and sometimes there are passages that just make you wonder what is going on. Wording is a bit different and overdone in places, but as I said before it is his first book.
It was a quick read when I got back to it. To be honest it fell backwards on my reading stack due to other, more pressing needs. I will get to the next book soon enough.
Danny
This is hard to read in places and sometimes there are passages that just make you wonder what is going on. Wording is a bit different and overdone in places, but as I said before it is his first book.
It was a quick read when I got back to it. To be honest it fell backwards on my reading stack due to other, more pressing needs. I will get to the next book soon enough.
Danny
November 29, 2016
Everything a fantasy tale should strive to be: inspiring, poetic, action-packed, and heroic.
More please!
More please!
January 9, 2018
Mud and Horn, Sword and Sparrow is Volume One of the fantasy offerings from Brandish Gilhelm. It is an intricately woven tale of four heroes that are bound by a tenuous thread of prejudice. Fueled by individual betrayals this group seeks to make right the injustice they have stoutly borne. Mr. Gilhem guides these characters through a web of intrigue that transcends time, providing a visually rich environment that is painted with pulls of a confident brush. There are notes of familiar imagery conjured and I swear I detected the soul of Clark Ashton Smith co-mingled into the wizardry of this tale.
If you like bold action, vengeance inspired by loss, nefarious schemes and conspiracy, the reassurance of a colleague hidden in the shadows providing keen, reliant assurance and the ring of steel finding its mark, you will find this story satisfying. Brandish Gilhelm is a maelstrom of creative energies, reshaping his existance and ours with rivulets of ideas that he is able to magnify into torrents of creative expression making the world a better place for it.
If you like bold action, vengeance inspired by loss, nefarious schemes and conspiracy, the reassurance of a colleague hidden in the shadows providing keen, reliant assurance and the ring of steel finding its mark, you will find this story satisfying. Brandish Gilhelm is a maelstrom of creative energies, reshaping his existance and ours with rivulets of ideas that he is able to magnify into torrents of creative expression making the world a better place for it.
October 19, 2019
An epic story of honor, love and friendship.
Mud and Horn, Sword and Sparrow is a beatiful crafted story with roots in a classic TRPG campaign. If you follow the author, Brandish Gilhem, you’ll know that he won’t waste words and countless pages describing with every single detail what the characters are eating, or every single nonsense just to fill pages. The story is wonderful and he keeps the action and events flowing. He manages to describe the characters and make them so likable from the get go. The writing is beautiful and reading this book was really fun. A quote from the book: “When heroes gather for mugs, and the fire burns low, the foundations of many great adventures are forged. Cold Gar stirs men’s hearts and warms a woman attention. The hours drag on and they yell and laugh over nothing, and the world is better for it. Those times tales are shouted, old poems remembered, and vows flow with the wine; this is when history is made.”
Mud and Horn, Sword and Sparrow is a beatiful crafted story with roots in a classic TRPG campaign. If you follow the author, Brandish Gilhem, you’ll know that he won’t waste words and countless pages describing with every single detail what the characters are eating, or every single nonsense just to fill pages. The story is wonderful and he keeps the action and events flowing. He manages to describe the characters and make them so likable from the get go. The writing is beautiful and reading this book was really fun. A quote from the book: “When heroes gather for mugs, and the fire burns low, the foundations of many great adventures are forged. Cold Gar stirs men’s hearts and warms a woman attention. The hours drag on and they yell and laugh over nothing, and the world is better for it. Those times tales are shouted, old poems remembered, and vows flow with the wine; this is when history is made.”
December 17, 2017
“When heroes gather for mugs, and the fire burns low, the foundations of many great adventures are forged.” I’ve never read anything like this before. It was very poetic and created the most amazing visuals in my head. I purchased the second book before finishing the first.
March 8, 2019
The book started off fresh, vivid, and emerged you with a wonderfully pained picture of a new fantastical world. The story telling quickly became rushed. The plot and characters were great, but the story left so much out. Where the story began with so much detail, it turned into a hurried mess. My 3 star rating is for his wonderful story telling style, which reads fresh. I wanted to like it more, but the story itself just fell flat.
August 22, 2018
A powerful fantasy tale, told in an epic style that captures the mighty deeds of the heroes, but also the subtleties of their lives and loves. Well worth a read.
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