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Grimluk, Demon Hunter #4
By Demons Be Driven
Grimluk is an orc with one purpose: hunting demons.
In Grimluk’s profession, sometimes you find the next job, and sometimes the next job finds you. After a demon knight attacks him on the highway, he’s pushed to the decaying town of Dunvich. Grimluk arrives just in time for a festival, joining several other outsiders as guests of honor. The smiling, friendly faces and hospitality seem too good to be true, setting him on an instinctive investigation to find out if there's more going on.
What he discovers is more than he expected. Dunvich contains secrets that could alter the course of the continent if left unchecked. Secrets that drag Grimluk into a fight for survival. As the hunter becomes the hunted, will a quick gun and a sharp knife win the day? Or will survival be the luxury Grimluk can't afford if he wants to stop the coming darkness from spreading?
One thing’s for sure: he’s got a job to do.
Can be read as a standalone. Contains strong language, graphic violence, and disturbing concepts and imagery, including implied incest.
In Grimluk’s profession, sometimes you find the next job, and sometimes the next job finds you. After a demon knight attacks him on the highway, he’s pushed to the decaying town of Dunvich. Grimluk arrives just in time for a festival, joining several other outsiders as guests of honor. The smiling, friendly faces and hospitality seem too good to be true, setting him on an instinctive investigation to find out if there's more going on.
What he discovers is more than he expected. Dunvich contains secrets that could alter the course of the continent if left unchecked. Secrets that drag Grimluk into a fight for survival. As the hunter becomes the hunted, will a quick gun and a sharp knife win the day? Or will survival be the luxury Grimluk can't afford if he wants to stop the coming darkness from spreading?
One thing’s for sure: he’s got a job to do.
Can be read as a standalone. Contains strong language, graphic violence, and disturbing concepts and imagery, including implied incest.
228 pages, Hardcover
Published October 1, 2021
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About the author
Ashe Armstrong
7 books43 followersI grew up watching and reading about adventures and having horrible nightmares. That last part may not seem relevant, but it is. I liked monsters and cryptids and the paranormal and scary things in general but I also liked them while hiding under the covers. I was also huge into science and learning. I was, shocking as it might sound, a Nerd. Eventually, nightmares were normal, I embraced being 2 spoopy and carried on with life. Who'd have guessed?
I grew up on a steady diet of late 80s and early 90s cartoons, Star Trek, Ghostbusters, Back to the Future, Goosebumps, and the Addams Family movies. The natural inclusion of Disney and Jim Henson helped build a love of fantasy too. As I got older, I discovered new things to love as well, like Clint Eastwood westerns, a renewed love of comic books, The Elder Scrolls video game series, Hellboy, the Vampire Hunter D series, the Deadlands table top RPG, Stephen King (especially the Dark Tower series), Robert E. Howard, and HP Lovecraft. Some of these things have been more important than others in shaping my views on life
Obviously I could sit and list a ton of things but realistically, you're probably not even reading this. But if you are, hi! I promise I'm not quite as boring as this thing makes me sound.
I'm currently living in Tulsa, OK with my wonderful partner. Which probably IS as boring as it sounds.
I grew up on a steady diet of late 80s and early 90s cartoons, Star Trek, Ghostbusters, Back to the Future, Goosebumps, and the Addams Family movies. The natural inclusion of Disney and Jim Henson helped build a love of fantasy too. As I got older, I discovered new things to love as well, like Clint Eastwood westerns, a renewed love of comic books, The Elder Scrolls video game series, Hellboy, the Vampire Hunter D series, the Deadlands table top RPG, Stephen King (especially the Dark Tower series), Robert E. Howard, and HP Lovecraft. Some of these things have been more important than others in shaping my views on life
Obviously I could sit and list a ton of things but realistically, you're probably not even reading this. But if you are, hi! I promise I'm not quite as boring as this thing makes me sound.
I'm currently living in Tulsa, OK with my wonderful partner. Which probably IS as boring as it sounds.
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February 1, 2022
This book is incredibly entertaining fun, though it's several books into the series it's a great place to start and read as a standalone adventure - you'll miss a little bit of Grimluk thinking about his family, but nothing important.
Grimluk has turned in all his bounties, visiting the job board leads him to an intriguing posting about a remote village seeking brave adventurers for a contest at their upcoming founder's festival. He sets off on the road only to find himself harried along the way... a sure sign there is something more going down in that direction. Sure enough what awaits him but a village full of cultists! Grimluk keeps his suspicions under wraps, and bands together with the group of halfling, elf, and human adventurers who have also arrived, as they all prepare for whatever ominous challenge awaits at the start of the festival.
Featuring traditional fantasy races, lovecraftian evils, and more. This goes beyond the pulpy weird western to engage with themes of racism & microaggression, as well as colonialism. I loved the nuance that the deeper themes and character diversity are handled with here and throughout the whole series so far. As well, I am a huge fan of the fact that for the series we are mostly in Grimluk's perspective, but sparingly get other perspectives (including villains at times) that greatly increase the tension because we have dangerous information that Grimluk doesn't, that is used to great effect in this book especially. This particular entry didn't have the emotional impact of books 2 & 3, but it also wasn't trying to, so this was super effective at what was intended in terms of being a monster filled thrill ride.
Grimluk has turned in all his bounties, visiting the job board leads him to an intriguing posting about a remote village seeking brave adventurers for a contest at their upcoming founder's festival. He sets off on the road only to find himself harried along the way... a sure sign there is something more going down in that direction. Sure enough what awaits him but a village full of cultists! Grimluk keeps his suspicions under wraps, and bands together with the group of halfling, elf, and human adventurers who have also arrived, as they all prepare for whatever ominous challenge awaits at the start of the festival.
Featuring traditional fantasy races, lovecraftian evils, and more. This goes beyond the pulpy weird western to engage with themes of racism & microaggression, as well as colonialism. I loved the nuance that the deeper themes and character diversity are handled with here and throughout the whole series so far. As well, I am a huge fan of the fact that for the series we are mostly in Grimluk's perspective, but sparingly get other perspectives (including villains at times) that greatly increase the tension because we have dangerous information that Grimluk doesn't, that is used to great effect in this book especially. This particular entry didn't have the emotional impact of books 2 & 3, but it also wasn't trying to, so this was super effective at what was intended in terms of being a monster filled thrill ride.
January 17, 2022
Fun mix of western themes/traditional fantasy races/Cthulhu cults and mythos. I read this book without reading the others in the series and I was able to jump right in and enjoy it as a standalone. The best description I can give of this book is that it is fun. It does everything that I expected of it and that is a good thing. I'm used to reading long dense series, but I always enjoy these short fun types of books in between the big doorstoppers.
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