FROSTBORN: THE GORGON SPIRIT now in audiobook!
I am pleased to report that FROSTBORN: THE GORGON SPIRIT, the seventh book of the FROSTBORN series, is now available in audiobook at Audible, Amazon US, Amazon UK, Amazon AU, and iTunes, as excellently narrated by Brad Wills.
You can get the first seven books in the FROSTBORN series in audiobook starting here!
-JM
After Sevenfold Sword: Serpent, I am afraid I have completely lost the motivation to continue with the series. IMHO the plot of the seven-sword novels are filled with holes and logical inconsistencies that you can drive a car through. This destroys all the pleasure of reading
First of all, the most basic and core premise of the sevenfold series was that you required ALL seven swords to be a conduit to the power of the well of storms and that too only at a specific place. This fundamental was _completely_ broken in Sevenfold Sword Serpent just to make the antagonist a bit more powerful. If a single sword and the staff of blades can be a conduit to the power of the well even through the wards casted by an archmage, then all the other mages and sword-holders who have been involved in the battle for the last 25 years would have found a way to do so. It is unsure why some arbitrary mage of no notable talent in the city of serpents, who wastes time organising gladiatorial slave games should have figured this out. He didn’t appear to be any sort of genius (quite the opposite actually) and had no connection to the swords before.
Also, if a single sword-born can dam the connection to the well of storms, then there is utterly no need to travel to Urd Maelwyn. There are *lots* of sword-born – they can each rotate the job amongst themselves and prevent the rising of the new God for ever. Any time you have a surge of power, a sword-born can block it and presto – the New God will deflate like an uncorked balloon. Why bother organising armies of soldiers and mages ? Just pay the sword born a monthly wage!
And now via Deus Ex Machina, Sir Calem gets a godly power-up and gets transformed from mundane knight to powerful wizard and also becomes a Sword-Born at that! That was utter tripe! Sword-Born are born – if they could be forged they would be called Sword-Forged. If all you had to do was break some magical chains from a Sword bearer and absorb power, you could manufacture sword born by the hundreds in an assembly line.
Another thing that always bugged me – I never understood why the Maledicti don’t kidnap Calliande’s sons. The Maledicti can traverse vast distances and can enter the city of Aenesium whenever they desire. Ridmark and Calliande’s sons are un-protected. Using the lame excuse that the Maledicti fear Ridmark and Calliande’s anger is ridiculous. There is little that either Ridmark and Calliande can do if their sons are taken as hostages. The Maledicti can dangle their sons as pawns, to force Ridmark and Calliande to go anywhere they choose.
Oh shucks, I commented on the wrong post – I meant to comment on the maze post!