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The Runaway Knight
When The Dragon awakes, will you kneel and serve … or fight and die?
When an ancient evil returns, the fate of the world rests with four unlikely heroes. Thrown together by sinister plots, and harried by enemies on all sides, they must battle to secure a future free from fear and terror …
On the endless Winter Steppe, young Temus Sanasar flees his tribe to escape fate and responsibility, but finds himself unable to outrun his destiny.
In the bejeweled city of Zorronov, amid the tangled politics of the imperial court, teenage Empress Alexa Astarina struggles to control her burgeoning magical powers.
In Amaranthium, at the heart of the Republic, outgoing consul Benedict Godsword makes one last desperate gamble to hold onto power.
And on a remote tropical paradise, Kal Moonheart’s quiet retirement is interrupted by an explosive revelation …
When an ancient evil returns, the fate of the world rests with four unlikely heroes. Thrown together by sinister plots, and harried by enemies on all sides, they must battle to secure a future free from fear and terror …
On the endless Winter Steppe, young Temus Sanasar flees his tribe to escape fate and responsibility, but finds himself unable to outrun his destiny.
In the bejeweled city of Zorronov, amid the tangled politics of the imperial court, teenage Empress Alexa Astarina struggles to control her burgeoning magical powers.
In Amaranthium, at the heart of the Republic, outgoing consul Benedict Godsword makes one last desperate gamble to hold onto power.
And on a remote tropical paradise, Kal Moonheart’s quiet retirement is interrupted by an explosive revelation …
214 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 25, 2017
About the author
Rob May
10 books21 followersRob May studied English at Lancaster University and is the author of Reckoning of Dragons, a trilogy of fantasy thrillers featuring Kal Moonheart, adventurer, gambler and thief.
Rob lives in Warwickshire, England.
Rob lives in Warwickshire, England.
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February 26, 2018
The Runaway Knight takes a different direction than May’s previous installments with Kalina Moonheart. She is still in there, but much less of a role. For better or for worse, that is what has happened. Instead, this novel focuses around a cast of characters who will all come together in some shape or form by the series end (as it has already started to happen by the end of the first novel). Characters like Silas Dogwood are enticing and conniving and someone who has me intrigued enough to want to know more. In fact, he was my favorite character. Kal Moonheart and Ben Godsword are other characters who make me flip the pages and never seem to have any problem with a constant array of tricks up their sleeves. However, the issue with the story for me is that it focuses also on two other characters Alexa and Temus who I didn’t particularly care for.
Alexa is an empress who has power yet doesn’t have power so her role is very confusing actually. In one instance it seems that she is obeying her advisors around her by not condemning their actions, yet she acts out on her own through a couple instances in the novel which I won’t spoil. This dichotomy is rather contradictory and if she has enough gall and courage to do one thing, she should have also the strength to get rid of the main problem in her castle, and who she knows to be a problem in her castle. Also, an event that happens to this character later in the story is cool, but does seem rather contrived and forced without too much of proper explanation or limitation on the ability she is granted. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing for now, as it does happen later in the novel, hopefully May expands on this in the following sequels to come.
Temus’s character is by far the weakest. He is a child of a former chieftain (who happened to be an alcoholic) and is reluctant to fill his father’s role. People amongst the tribe hate this character for no particular reason other than his father was a drunk. What that father did when he was a drunk and why he was such a bad chieftan (just because he’s a drunk doesn’t mean he’s a bad individual, take any great writer for example from Hemingway to Fitzgerald) is left unexplained and creates the rather tenuous relationship between Temus and others in the book. In an instant, he decides he wants to just run away and leave everything behind and for much of the novel has acted like a child (trying to steal things when he shouldn’t be stealing things, causing mischief on the Long Road, being selfish about his life over another character’s, etc.) By novels end, however, he has a monumental breakthrough, almost like an epiphany, and decides that he is more of an adult, arguing with the elders he is with. To me, his character just wasn’t believable, but could have been believable if there was more of a natural progression.
Grammatical issues throughout the novel also distracted me from fully enjoying it. To Rob’s credit, however, his vocabulary is astounding and uses proper word choice (unless it’s a typo) for most instances.
I think if Temus’s character would have been left out, I would have enjoyed this novel enough to give it a four-star review. As it stands, I couldn’t connect with his character enough (nor other characters who hate Temus or love him) because their relationship wasn’t built strong enough. That coupled with the distracting grammatical errors weaken what easily could have been a 4-star or higher review. Therefore I give The Runaway Knight 3 out of 5 stars.
Alexa is an empress who has power yet doesn’t have power so her role is very confusing actually. In one instance it seems that she is obeying her advisors around her by not condemning their actions, yet she acts out on her own through a couple instances in the novel which I won’t spoil. This dichotomy is rather contradictory and if she has enough gall and courage to do one thing, she should have also the strength to get rid of the main problem in her castle, and who she knows to be a problem in her castle. Also, an event that happens to this character later in the story is cool, but does seem rather contrived and forced without too much of proper explanation or limitation on the ability she is granted. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing for now, as it does happen later in the novel, hopefully May expands on this in the following sequels to come.
Temus’s character is by far the weakest. He is a child of a former chieftain (who happened to be an alcoholic) and is reluctant to fill his father’s role. People amongst the tribe hate this character for no particular reason other than his father was a drunk. What that father did when he was a drunk and why he was such a bad chieftan (just because he’s a drunk doesn’t mean he’s a bad individual, take any great writer for example from Hemingway to Fitzgerald) is left unexplained and creates the rather tenuous relationship between Temus and others in the book. In an instant, he decides he wants to just run away and leave everything behind and for much of the novel has acted like a child (trying to steal things when he shouldn’t be stealing things, causing mischief on the Long Road, being selfish about his life over another character’s, etc.) By novels end, however, he has a monumental breakthrough, almost like an epiphany, and decides that he is more of an adult, arguing with the elders he is with. To me, his character just wasn’t believable, but could have been believable if there was more of a natural progression.
Grammatical issues throughout the novel also distracted me from fully enjoying it. To Rob’s credit, however, his vocabulary is astounding and uses proper word choice (unless it’s a typo) for most instances.
I think if Temus’s character would have been left out, I would have enjoyed this novel enough to give it a four-star review. As it stands, I couldn’t connect with his character enough (nor other characters who hate Temus or love him) because their relationship wasn’t built strong enough. That coupled with the distracting grammatical errors weaken what easily could have been a 4-star or higher review. Therefore I give The Runaway Knight 3 out of 5 stars.
July 9, 2018
Can't wait
This book was amazing. I can't wait for the next one. I have read all the books in the series. Love them all.
This book was amazing. I can't wait for the next one. I have read all the books in the series. Love them all.
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