City of Rogues Book I of The Kobalos Trilogy Kron Darkbow 1 eBook Ty Johnston
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Kron Darkbow seeks vengeance, and he plans to have it no matter the costs. Returning to the city of his birth after 15 years, he hunts down the wizard responsible for the deaths of those he loved only to find out another was responsible for the murders. That other is Belgad the Liar, a former barbarian chieftain who is now boss of the city's underworld.
Following his path for blood, Kron comes across the magical healer, Randall Tendbones, and accidentally reveals Randall's darkest secret to the world. It's a secret about the past, a secret that has kept Randall on the run for three years. Now it has caught up with him, and Belgad the Liar is suddenly the least of Randall and Kron's concerns. The gaze of Lord Verkain, king of of the dark northern land of Kobalos, has fallen upon Kron and Randall. And it is a gaze filled with madness.
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OTHER BOOKS IN THE EPIC FANTASY TRILOGY
Road To Wrath Book II of The Kobalos Trilogy
Dark King of The North Book III of The Kobalos Trilogy
Blade and Flame Prequel to The Kobalos Trilogy (short story)
The Kobalos Trilogy OMNIBUS edition, collects all 3 original novels of trilogy
OTHER KRON DARKBOW NOVELS AVAILABLE
Ghosts of the Asylum Book I of The Horrors of Bond Trilogy
Demon Chains Book II of The Horrors of Bond Trilogy
The Company of Seven Book III of The Horrors of Bond Trilogy
Six Swords, One Skeleton and a Sewer Prequel to The Horrors of Bond Trilogy (short story)
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"... a fast-paced story full of suspense and action. You will spend much of the book wondering who among the rogues is secretly Kron Darkbow." -- Brent Nichols, author of LORD OF FIRE
"Johnston does an outstanding job of juggling a fairly large cast of characters for such a short book, imbuing each of them with their own personality and characteristics." -- Keith West, Adventures Fantastic
"Ty introduces us into a world plagued with tension, murder, revenge, and bribery, and does a fantastic job emphasizing how fast the darkness could fall." -- Jessee Dedman, editor of DEADMAN'S TOME
City of Rogues Book I of The Kobalos Trilogy Kron Darkbow 1 eBook Ty Johnston
I can live with an anti-hero. I actually want characters to be multifaceted. So the character contradictions didn't really bother me.The novel started strong. There are a few jarring editorial problems. But the beginning moves well and draws the reader in.
The middle introduces some new characters and foreshadows book 2. It also becomes a tad predictable. There is no doubt who the healer "really is" from almost the moment when he becomes more than a secondary character.
The end just falls on its face and, literally, rolls in the mud. The whole story line has lead up to a scene of final confrontation AND the winner walks away without confirming the kill. "I think he's dead". Really? He's won. There's a few NPC's hanging around who he has been stomping with ease and regularity and he walks away?
Next logic flaw. The Ring Wraiths (opphhs, Ring Demons) show up charged by their cruel and evil master to GET THE RING. And some guy is so glib as to talk them into coming back in a few days and he'll find it for them. And we don't even get to see the scene where he does this, just hear that he did it after the fact. That must have been some amazing dog and pony show and we missed it.
The ending is confused, incomplete, rambling, illogical, and little more than a lead in to book 2. And because of that I don't care enough to buy or read book 2.
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City of Rogues Book I of The Kobalos Trilogy Kron Darkbow 1 eBook Ty Johnston Reviews
tends to abound with fantasy novels of various sub-genres prices between $2.99 to $0.00 nowadays. Many of them are crap, some of them are brilliant, while the rest fall where in the middle. City of Rogues is definitely amongst the third, though certainly towards the higher end.
The setting is a typical fantasy city, and like Conan and other sword and sorcery tales to which it is obviously inspired by, focuses mainly on the lower end of the social ladder, amongst the thieves, gangsters and others who fight out their days in the narrow alleyways at sword pint and edge of spell. Though the book description lists Kron Darkbow as the main character, an anti-hero bent of revenge (are there any other kinds?) the story spends even more time on its various other characters - a former mercenary turned political boss/gangster, a healer mage trying to escape his past, a former soldier and guard from a prison colony trying to make a fresh start in life, a world-weary city guards captain...and so on.
The central focus of the story is about the character Kron and his quest for revenge against Belgas, the preeminent gangster in the city, and how it draws in, affects and in some cases ends the lives of the characters. when it is over, a new quest has begun to liberate a far-off lands in the north from its insane wizard ruler.
The good points - well-rounded characters and a plot that, while no different from a hundred other fantasy novels, was well-written enough to hold my attention. I've always enjoyed fantasy tales with a gritty edge, and this had enough to make it a fun read.
The bad points - the setting isn't adequately explained. Various other realms are mentioned, but with little explanation as to how they relate to the characters in question. Religion plays a strong role in this society and the characters actions, but almost no background material is provided, causing some confusion. Also, the ending of the book comes across as awkward. Having defeated the bid baddie, Kron and two of the characters suddenly decide to hare off to another land to overthrow its king, almost out of the blue. it felt shoehorned in, giving the book the feeling of being almost an extended prologue.
Still, a decent read, worth three stars at least, worth an afternoons enjoyment.
A tale og one man's 15 year quest for justice in the murder of his parents by a wizard and the Lord of Thieves. His war against Belgad the Liar grabs you in as it does in the story, the boy, Wyck, Adara the Fencer and the mysterious Randall Tendbones, a Healer with his own dark secret are all drawn into Kron Darkbow's war.
This is a fast paced novel of High Adventure. Fans of a good adveture and Role-Playing Gamers will enjoy the quest of Kron Darkbow with a tale that at one time could have been a Bob Aspirin/Lynn Abbey's Thieve's Word or Emma Bulls's Liavek shared world anthologies. The story had my iPad in hand until I turned the last page!
City of rogues is a decently written and edited book (a few errors but very few that are obvious). The story was fun, kind of a Zorro/Batman set to a fantasy theme. Some dialog and plot elements made me role my eyes but there was enough there to keep me reading. It all fell apart for me at the 85% completion point on my kindle. Main character wants to humiliate the bad guy before killing him for his role in the murder of his parents 15 years ago. The guy is obsessed with it the entire book. Then the author throws in some other characters that border on background and secondary and I could not figure out why. Near the end, all goes to hell and suddenly there these demons who demand this secondary/background character be handed over. The main bad guy says "hey, I'll get him if you don't kill me." Despite these demons threatening to destroy the entire city, they take this guy's word for it and wander off somewhere because they obviously have a very busy schedule and don;t mind outsources what I felt was their greatest task in life. Now this guy the demons want saves the hero. The hero tells him he is a terrible person and it's his fault because the demons squished some friends when they rudely interrupted his execution. The other guy says, "hey, if you think I'm a bad guy, you should meet my dad." Our hero says, "yeah, we should totally go kill him too even though I've never met him since it will make another book."
I wanted to give the book 4 stars because it was a decent read, but I wanted to give the ending 2 stars because it completely jumped the rails so it gets 3 from me.
I can live with an anti-hero. I actually want characters to be multifaceted. So the character contradictions didn't really bother me.
The novel started strong. There are a few jarring editorial problems. But the beginning moves well and draws the reader in.
The middle introduces some new characters and foreshadows book 2. It also becomes a tad predictable. There is no doubt who the healer "really is" from almost the moment when he becomes more than a secondary character.
The end just falls on its face and, literally, rolls in the mud. The whole story line has lead up to a scene of final confrontation AND the winner walks away without confirming the kill. "I think he's dead". Really? He's won. There's a few NPC's hanging around who he has been stomping with ease and regularity and he walks away?
Next logic flaw. The Ring Wraiths (opphhs, Ring Demons) show up charged by their cruel and evil master to GET THE RING. And some guy is so glib as to talk them into coming back in a few days and he'll find it for them. And we don't even get to see the scene where he does this, just hear that he did it after the fact. That must have been some amazing dog and pony show and we missed it.
The ending is confused, incomplete, rambling, illogical, and little more than a lead in to book 2. And because of that I don't care enough to buy or read book 2.
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