King

Rise of the Fallen #1

by Andrew Peed, Matthew Peed

Nothing was stronger than him. The insufferable parties of adventurers that continuously tried to take him down only ever suffered defeat and death at his hands. At least, that was his life until a party that was clearly too full of themselves came before him with a weapon that even he had never seen before. As a feeling he had never known before filled his chest, he experienced his first defeat. That should have meant his death, but fate decided otherwise, as he found himself falling out of the sky into a world that was similar to his but far in the future. Now that he knew defeat, the king want only one thing... to start over and to teach the fools that even in defeat, the King kneels before no man.

266 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 31, 2022

Reviews

[Soima Traian · Rating 2 out of 5]

Disappointing

The fight scenes are a mess, at one pount 30 bad guys fight with 12 good guys, all are close in power, and after 1 HOUR! of fighting all 30 are dead and none of the 12 are. 1 hour of intense swordfighting is as absurd as taking fireballs to the face, arrows through the eyes and keeping on fighting. To put the cherry on top the ending is bad, absurd and completely ruins any hope the book might have had. The raping, child raping and trafficking also doesn't help.

[Steve · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 for this one. I suppose I could break down what didn't quite work for me, but "didn't quite work for me" is the key. Seemed a bit stilted at times, like a couple of people were writing different parts of it and not doing a seamless job of it. I'll see what the next one offers and have a better idea if this series is worth my time investment.