Wytchfire The Dragonkin Trilogy Book 1 eBook Michael Meyerhofer
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In the dragon-haunted land of Ruun, Rowen Locke has been many things orphan, gravedigger, mercenary. All he ever wanted was to become a Knight of Crane and wield a kingsteel sword against horrors he's known since childhood.
But that dream crumbled—replaced by a new nightmare. War is overrunning the realms, and in a world where no one is blameless, the time has come for one disgraced man to decide which side he’s on.
Wytchfire The Dragonkin Trilogy Book 1 eBook Michael Meyerhofer
This story is about an orphan boy who is exiled from an island of knights after unfairly being denied knighthood because he was not rich. Soon after leaving the island he finds work from a merchant which leads them to meet a woman of magic. Now on the run from an enemy throng (massive army), they race to save a city from falling.I rated this book two stars because there is little depth to it. I find my self struggling to like and connect with anyone. The main character wasn't exactly stupid but he had little history, next to no depth, and no great skill. You are tossed into a story of this guy exactly after he is thrown off the island having no clue what's special about him. All he does is walk and talk with poorly described small fights.
As for the magic, it has no depth either. All they say throughout the entire book is purple light bounces between fingers and poof they turn to ash. Does not say how it's wielded or what else they can do.
Then you have the new popular thing writers like to do... Make chapters for multiple characters. I personally hate this especially if it's more than 2 characters. It makes the book unorganized and poorly written.
The plot sounds great but was sadly executed. I guess there is an up side, no pathetic attempt of crude sex and rape in the book. Not sure if I will buy book two especially with how short this book is for 5 dollars.
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Wytchfire The Dragonkin Trilogy Book 1 eBook Michael Meyerhofer Reviews
I don't normally review books, but I just had to write something once I finished WYTCHFIRE. This book was recommended to me by my daughter.
Meyerhofer often switches between lyrical descriptions and brutal honesty about the world he has created. Much like Martin, Meyerhofer describes a difficult world influenced by our own history. There is war and violence, yes, but there is also honor and beauty here. The characters and their interactions are believable, as is the landscape the author leads us through. I came to care about these characters throughout the story and I cannot wait for the next installment! A good recommendation for sure!
Fun read - adventure, melodrama, grand characters with faults and foibles who are relatable, and descriptions so well written you can feel the dirt beneath your feet and the grime on your fingers.
Wytchfire, by poet and author Michael Meyerhofer, is the first book in his Dragonkin Trilogy. In it he has built a fantasy world akin to the Forgotten Realms and DragonLance books of TSR, Inc. of the United Kingdom, and reminiscent of Dungeons and Dragons. Fantasy fans will recognize his Sylvosi with tapered ears living in their beautiful forest as elves, his short muscular Dwar as dwarfs, his tall and muscular gray-skinned Ogres as—well—ogres, and his Shel’ai (sorcerers born to the Sylvosi) as mages. But all similarity ends there. Meyerhofer departs from the usual depiction of these fantasy races and characters in a number of ways.
His Shel’ai, unlike most fantasy mages, are not respected but feared as dangerous mutant deviants and are outcasts from the people and land of their birth.
In another twist, Meyerhofer gives his Ogres personality and intellect. One particular Ogre is Fadarah, a half-Ogre and half Sylv-Shel’ai, who is both “the head bad guy” of a group of outcast Shel’ai and of a mercenary army, and is also a character of some depth and complication with whom we sympathize. He clearly holds honorable values as he stops the rape of a woman by one of his mercenary leaders. We enter the story with Fadarah who is feared and hated by all because he is an Ogre and a Shel’ai, and so he has created a family, or “people,” by rescuing other outcast Shel’ai. Reminiscent of the diaspora Jews prior to the creation of the State of Israel who often suffered pogroms, Fadarah is a kind of Theodor Herzl who wants to create a “promised land” for his people to “return” to. Like many who have suffered racism, Fadarah is self-hating of the very uniqueness that is also his strength. His hurt and anger fuel his struggle, but threatens to destroy the very thing he seeks to create.
Dragons, which like the dinosaurs of earth’s past have become extinct, are accepted as once having been real because their skeletons are often found. A fanatical religious group that profits from the sale of dragon relics and the visits of pilgrims, and that can be prone to zealous violence, worships them as gods.
The human Rowan Locke, is an orphan who grew up amid squalor and violence (including the regular raping of women and children by roving gangs of men) that became a mercenary soldier who dreamed of joining the honorable Isle Knights. When he finally does succeed in joining their initiates, he finds himself “washed out” after four hard years of training. Still believing in the honor code of the Knights he struggles to overcome his shame while trying to figure out what to do with the rest of his life. He happens upon a merchant who hires him to be his guard and their travel leads Rowan into the plot of the story where he meets two dangerous Shel’ai, the enigmatic El’rash’lin and the exotically beautiful Silwren, and a magical sword called Knightswrath. Despite Rowan’s first hand experience of the more vile realities of life, his desperate drive to belong to something higher and more noble creates a naivety that blinds him to the truth and may even get him killed.
Even the Dwar Jalist, a relatively minor character, escapes the common contrivances for dwarves as he is compassionate and homosexual as well as strong and warrior like.
Fantasy lovers will find plenty to love about Wytchfire, and those new to the genre will love the depth of Meyerhofer’s characters and the complexity of the world he has built, where nothing is as it first seems. Like real life, the bad guys can be good, the good guys can be bad, and even the honorable—like the brave and capable female warrior Knight Aeko—must sometimes make compromises. In Wytchfire, Meyerhofer explores themes of racism, male violence, poverty, sexism, classicism, sexual abuse, and religion. But he does so unobtrusively—as just another reality in the world he has built that is so like our own—while engaging readers with interesting characters and page-turning plot.
At times I thought this book would develop into an okay read. Story had potential but it just kept falling redundantly short. Main reason, protagonist was dense and repetitive to point of ruining story. Author tried to develop and fill out plot through his insecure self questioning of everything and ended up over using that device about 500 percent. Lots of reasons to build conflict, but it was always boiled down to the ineptitude of main character.
He needs an editor. At a certain point you give up hope and get tired of waiting for the guy to "see the light" (80% through) and start skipping chapters. You can skip major portions and not affect story in fact you will improve it. AND it's too expensive
Eventually I was hoping someone would kill him so the story could advance. I still hope that, put him out of his misery. And mine too.
This story is about an orphan boy who is exiled from an island of knights after unfairly being denied knighthood because he was not rich. Soon after leaving the island he finds work from a merchant which leads them to meet a woman of magic. Now on the run from an enemy throng (massive army), they race to save a city from falling.
I rated this book two stars because there is little depth to it. I find my self struggling to like and connect with anyone. The main character wasn't exactly stupid but he had little history, next to no depth, and no great skill. You are tossed into a story of this guy exactly after he is thrown off the island having no clue what's special about him. All he does is walk and talk with poorly described small fights.
As for the magic, it has no depth either. All they say throughout the entire book is purple light bounces between fingers and poof they turn to ash. Does not say how it's wielded or what else they can do.
Then you have the new popular thing writers like to do... Make chapters for multiple characters. I personally hate this especially if it's more than 2 characters. It makes the book unorganized and poorly written.
The plot sounds great but was sadly executed. I guess there is an up side, no pathetic attempt of crude sex and rape in the book. Not sure if I will buy book two especially with how short this book is for 5 dollars.
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