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The author did a great job of pulling me into the story. I found my curiosity piqued and continued reading, wanting to find out what would happen to Snow and Veiko and Dekklis (the story is told in third person through various characters). Action in the first half of the book is non-stop, and the author lays out enough of the world she has created without overwhelming the reader with unnecessary tidbits, sharing just enough for us to understand what is happening and why certain things are important. I did struggle a bit when her characters first brought up the idea of killing one or more of the gods the people followed. Killing a god is something new to me, but it is the author's tale and it is a fantasy, but once I suspended belief everything was good.

I would have given the book more stars, but the author's style of writing constantly intruded on the story. Ms. Eason has a tendency to describe the action in phrases rather than sentences. While this can be effective, it loses its luster with overuse.

It was the same with her use of italics. Italics are used for communication with the main character's flying familiar, which communicates by sending images and thoughts. Italics are also used when any of the characters are thinking and have contrary thoughts, or are not being entirely truthful with themselves. Again, a great tool to have in the box, but it is Ms. Eason's favorite, and she uses it constantly. It becomes even more confusing when a character is thinking and the contrary thoughts sound like the speech of another character. While I understand what the author is attempting to convey (the character reflecting the thinking of another), it is a bit jarring.

It seems to be common for authors nowadays to use unnecessary foul language, and Ms. Eason has followed suit in this book. The locals in her tale like to use the word "toad" as a prefix to their cuss words, although I didn't consider it original to use toad as a prefix for the f-bomb. While she doesn't use it to excess, different words are scattered throughout the book, so be forewarned if this sort of thing bothers you. Truthfully, I thought the story was strong enough to stand on its own two legs without sprinkling the toadwords here and there.

Ms. Eason definitely has talent and the book is worth a read, even with the phrasing and italics. While I am not a fan of the "Here is Book 1 at a cheap price, more to come" ploy, the story stood on its own and tied enough of the strings together to present a satisfactory conclusion, so the reader is not forced to purchase the next book.


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Enemy A Dark Fantasy Novel On the Bones of Gods K Eason 9781503934498 Books Reviews

This is a 3.5 star book for me.

Let me dispense with some things that did *not* concern me

1) I have and had no problem with the frequent swearing. For one, most of the characters are soldiers, and they swear a lot; two, the frequent use actually has the effect of making the impact retreat into the background.

2) I had no problem with the frequent italics. They were used for different things, but it was almost always clear from context what was going on, and when it wasn't, it didn't feel like it really *mattered* that much. I actually liked the way she created her own use, in the frequent times that she interrupted a character's thoughts and broke the paragraph with a single italicized world that represent the self-doubt the character has about what they are telling themselves. It's a nice way to show, rather than tell, self-doubt, and it makes the characters more accessible.

3) I have more mixed feelings about the ubiquitous use of incomplete sentences. It's a technique that makes sense in the fog of uncertainty, when things are swirling around a character to the point where they have only snatches of perception rather than a chance to think through things, and in that sense, for certain scenes, it again shows rather than tells us about the "fog of war". OTOH, I think it's a technique more effective if saved for the most important moments, so that in my opinion, she used this too much. But it certainly does give a sense of urgency and immediateness.

Altogether, the prose was tight and professional, the characters were complex and differentiated without at all smelling like overused tropes, and as I've alluded, the balance of showing vs telling was excellent. I'll admit that at times I had trouble following all of the subtleties, but that's partly because I'm a lazy reader and I don't try really hard to keep it all straight, trusting that it will be revealed as it needs to be. Perhaps for me, the author could have given just a little bit more exposition here and there, but that's a personal taste.

There's good world-building here, there's meaningful action, there's intrigue, and there's a lot of description that makes you feel viscerally as if you are there. So why only 3.5 stars? There's a couple of things that don't quite hit the right balances for me, while noting that I'm pretty stingy with my stars, and this is actually a very good rating coming from me for an indie-ish author

1) I found the pacing a little slow, particularly in certain parts. The author's attempts to always describe the various sights and sounds and smells, the various feelings that the characters are having, the subtleties of how their thinking and understanding shifts to new information or situations, are all laudable... and just a bit too much. Not *every* sight and sound is worth telling us about, not every subtle shift in a thought is meaningful enough to tell us about. Some parts of a story are ok to move more quickly over. I recall thinking about halfway through the book "are we still on the same day on which the book started?" I almost gave up the story at that point, and while I'm glad I plowed through, I think that part could have been edited down.

2) Perhaps as a result of 1, the story was a little too narrow in scope for my tastes. We effectively saw only two scene locations in this story, first the woods outside of the town and then the town itself. I appreciate that there are many hints here of a much larger world and that we were shown glimpses of that world in context rather than as giant info-dumps, but this felt like seeing too little of the world for my tastes, and - ironic I realize for a story involving the potential deaths of two gods - not enough sweep or impact.

3) Speaking of gods, I quite enjoyed their appearance as mean-spirited and self-serving beings with anything but omnipotent powers. They don't appear to be much more than particularly powerful wizards in some sense, and that makes them at a scale that the reader can understand. That said, for the gods and magic in general, despite quite a bit of discussion of the mechanics of magic, its limitations and rules etc are still unclear. Dead people come back to life as ghosts that can interact with the living, and no one seems particularly shocked, even though there's no evidence that has anyone has seen something like this before? It felt slightly inconsistent. What are the limits of magic? Snow's use of the conjuring magic felt too powerful at one point she was able to bring down an entire building using no more than the energy she found in a candle. If she's that powerful, why isn't she wielding that power more often? There were some mentions of backlash (which also felt a bit untenable it literally reshapes landscapes, and this is an environment that people can actually live in?) which seemed to be the author's attempt to put brakes on Snow's power, but for whatever reason those conveniently didn't happen during this story.

4) There are several points in the book where great pain and cruelty are described in detail. I understand that things like this can happen in such a world, but that doesn't mean I need to be exposed to the details (I have much the same reaction to detailed descriptions of sex in books, which thank fully this book does not do sex happens and that's fine, it's just that I'm fine with not having to wade through the details, they really don't interest me and don't advance my enjoyment of the story or understanding of the plot anymore than a more circumspect reference).

Altogether, this is a promising and enjoyable first book with many hints at further directions and aspects of this world still to be revealed, and I'm looking forward to future additions to the series.
I have read the other reviews I do that because I wish to learn how to give better reviews. Some reviews are critical of the writing style and harsh foul language is used. Oh well, I have to say this book exemplifies why I like . I really don't want every thing I read to be written in the same style or censored so my ears don't crinkle from the fact that I have never heard foul language used in print. I liked the fact that the writing style was different than most anything I have read yet. new concepts, new ways of emphasizing the thoughts of the characters! Good damn work K Eason.
who carries a sword that is dull and will not cut, who carries a sword and has no reason to use it, these characters are not driving electric cars!
Great mixture of races and half breeds and pale warriors who herd domestic grazing animals and still have real life conflicts.

Read her profile she has two degrees in English lit. I would guess it took quite a bit of work to develop this story telling style. Ok I am weird I don't have Two English lit degrees but I know when I enjoy a break from the perfect writing style of so many other books. Open your minds get beyond the need for perfection. Sorry the only reason I haven't used a sword my self is because I was born 400 years too late. so I get to read about them from great authors like K. Eason.
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The author did a great job of pulling me into the story. I found my curiosity piqued and continued reading, wanting to find out what would happen to Snow and Veiko and Dekklis (the story is told in third person through various characters). Action in the first half of the book is non-stop, and the author lays out enough of the world she has created without overwhelming the reader with unnecessary tidbits, sharing just enough for us to understand what is happening and why certain things are important. I did struggle a bit when her characters first brought up the idea of killing one or more of the gods the people followed. Killing a god is something new to me, but it is the author's tale and it is a fantasy, but once I suspended belief everything was good.

I would have given the book more stars, but the author's style of writing constantly intruded on the story. Ms. Eason has a tendency to describe the action in phrases rather than sentences. While this can be effective, it loses its luster with overuse.

It was the same with her use of italics. Italics are used for communication with the main character's flying familiar, which communicates by sending images and thoughts. Italics are also used when any of the characters are thinking and have contrary thoughts, or are not being entirely truthful with themselves. Again, a great tool to have in the box, but it is Ms. Eason's favorite, and she uses it constantly. It becomes even more confusing when a character is thinking and the contrary thoughts sound like the speech of another character. While I understand what the author is attempting to convey (the character reflecting the thinking of another), it is a bit jarring.

It seems to be common for authors nowadays to use unnecessary foul language, and Ms. Eason has followed suit in this book. The locals in her tale like to use the word "toad" as a prefix to their cuss words, although I didn't consider it original to use toad as a prefix for the f-bomb. While she doesn't use it to excess, different words are scattered throughout the book, so be forewarned if this sort of thing bothers you. Truthfully, I thought the story was strong enough to stand on its own two legs without sprinkling the toadwords here and there.

Ms. Eason definitely has talent and the book is worth a read, even with the phrasing and italics. While I am not a fan of the "Here is Book 1 at a cheap price, more to come" ploy, the story stood on its own and tied enough of the strings together to present a satisfactory conclusion, so the reader is not forced to purchase the next book.