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The Venomsword
Leif’s career as a member of the renowned Faerie Hunter Bounty Commission, begins with an elegant party. The celebration becomes a disaster, however, when the host poisons the partygoers. Barely surviving the ordeal, Leif is forced to chase a dangerous criminal from Frorin’s seedy underground up to the highest social strata. He teams up with another Hunter, the enigmatic and charming beauty, Fryn, and they soon realize it will take all their knowledge, talent, and skill to overcome the elusive assassin known as the Venomsword.
- GenresScience Fiction Fantasy
288 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 11, 2017
8 people want to read
About the author
Stephen Hagelin
6 books2 followersBorn in Seattle, Stephen was raised with a love of books and writing ever since his parents read such books as "At the Back of the North Wind" and "Oliver Twist" and "The Hobbit" to him and his siblings as children.
He reads voraciously, writes eccentrically, and is known for his attempts at being witty that usually fall flat at cocktail parties.
Following the release of “The Viper’s chase” the second book in his Commission Series, he is working on the third, “The Lich’s Blade” which is expected to release in the Summer of 2019.
He reads voraciously, writes eccentrically, and is known for his attempts at being witty that usually fall flat at cocktail parties.
Following the release of “The Viper’s chase” the second book in his Commission Series, he is working on the third, “The Lich’s Blade” which is expected to release in the Summer of 2019.
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April 18, 2017
The Venomsword is an adventure story takes place in a fantasy world with an intricate magic system. Leif and Fryn are engaging and well developed main characters. The villain is interesting and despicable. I love how the author counterpoises Mythrim’s intelligence and ruthlessness with the heroes’ skill and strength of character. He introduces a number of intriguing secondary characters, as well. (I hope he brings them back in another book.) The plot moves quickly and takes turns you don’t expect, but the author takes just enough time to paint striking scenes of the colorful, cold city of Frorin.
This may be a simple, fun adventure tale, but I think this author shows promise of much more to come. He has great language skills and tells stories easily and eloquently — and it’s such a relief to read something that has been well edited! No sloppy grammar or disjointed story-telling. I can’t wait to read the sequel!
Points you may want to know: there are some pretty intense fight scenes and a number of deaths, but it’s not overly graphic. There’s romance, too, handled tastefully.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book.
This may be a simple, fun adventure tale, but I think this author shows promise of much more to come. He has great language skills and tells stories easily and eloquently — and it’s such a relief to read something that has been well edited! No sloppy grammar or disjointed story-telling. I can’t wait to read the sequel!
Points you may want to know: there are some pretty intense fight scenes and a number of deaths, but it’s not overly graphic. There’s romance, too, handled tastefully.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book.
April 16, 2017
Of course I love this book, I wrote it, but since I don't have a forward in the book, maybe I'll give a short pitch here.
I had hit a wall in writing a book I'd been trying to write for some seven or eight years on and off, and I was talking to my friend Wesley, to whom I dedicated this book, while his little sisters were watching the Tinkerbell movie (the first one I think, I have no idea) and I was thinking to myself that it was a rather impressive movie for children. So I told him that I thought that, and then asked whether he thought it were possible to make a story where fairies were 'cool' enough for college aged kids. So he challenged me, he said he thought I could do just that, and this book here is my attempt to meet that challenge. It took me two and a half years to get a good solid draft going, but that was much better than eight unfruitful years--and soon enough, what started out as something I wrote without the baggage of emotional attachment turned into one of my darlings, which I had to kill outright and start over. (Twice)
So here, after many blisters on my fingers, and many tears, is my attempt to write a fairy tale that is fit for adults, but acceptable for teenagers, (though they will not appreciate the effort I put into wine tasting, or if they do, I raise my eyebrows at them.)
Most authors do not like to rate the content of their books, but I will tell you now, it has intense martial arts and fighting scenes, romantic tension, more wine than is necessary, and at least 80,000 words worth of wit and banter. So, it'd be like. A PG-13 movie? But thematically, I'd say it's like a seinen manga.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy it, and are prepared for more when I publish the sequel. (Projected for the Summer of 2017)
I had hit a wall in writing a book I'd been trying to write for some seven or eight years on and off, and I was talking to my friend Wesley, to whom I dedicated this book, while his little sisters were watching the Tinkerbell movie (the first one I think, I have no idea) and I was thinking to myself that it was a rather impressive movie for children. So I told him that I thought that, and then asked whether he thought it were possible to make a story where fairies were 'cool' enough for college aged kids. So he challenged me, he said he thought I could do just that, and this book here is my attempt to meet that challenge. It took me two and a half years to get a good solid draft going, but that was much better than eight unfruitful years--and soon enough, what started out as something I wrote without the baggage of emotional attachment turned into one of my darlings, which I had to kill outright and start over. (Twice)
So here, after many blisters on my fingers, and many tears, is my attempt to write a fairy tale that is fit for adults, but acceptable for teenagers, (though they will not appreciate the effort I put into wine tasting, or if they do, I raise my eyebrows at them.)
Most authors do not like to rate the content of their books, but I will tell you now, it has intense martial arts and fighting scenes, romantic tension, more wine than is necessary, and at least 80,000 words worth of wit and banter. So, it'd be like. A PG-13 movie? But thematically, I'd say it's like a seinen manga.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy it, and are prepared for more when I publish the sequel. (Projected for the Summer of 2017)
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