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  • Dawn of War

  • Blood War Trilogy, Book 1
  • By: Tim Marquitz
  • Narrated by: John Pruden
  • Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
  • 3.6 out of 5 stars (14 ratings)

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Dawn of War

By: Tim Marquitz
Narrated by: John Pruden
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Summary

For hundreds of years, the bestial Grol have clawed at the walls of Lathah without success. Now armed with O'hra, mystical weapons of great power, they have returned, to conquer. Witness to the Grol advance, Arrin can abide his exile no longer. He returns to Lathah, in defiance of death, with hopes to save his beloved princess and the child born of their illicit affair. He finds her unwilling to abandon her people.

At her behest, Arrin searches for a sanctuary for them only to be confronted by the Sha'ree, a powerful race long thought gone from the world. Through them, he learns it is not just the Grol that threaten the land. Empowered by a magic never before seen, the savage nations spread chaos and ruin across the realm.

With Lathah under siege, and the world on the brink of cataclysmic war, Arrin must strike a deal with the Sha'ree to take the fight to the Grol, or forever lose his one true love: his family.

©2011 Tim Marquitz (P)2014 Audible Inc.
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Original idea poorly executed

This could have been a so much better story than was delivered. On the plus side Marquitz avoids the standard fantasy races for new interpretations which could have lead to an interesting story but for me it fell flat. The world building was poor. At the beginning new characters, races, cities etc. are thrown at you with alarming rapidity that it was hard to initially sort them out and that meant that their role in the story became blurred and difficult to follow. The characters were not of high quality either, the evil prince for example was archetypal evil prince, self serving, arrogant, and ignorant of everything around him and let's his own petty squabbles take on a higher importance than threats to his realm simply because of the person bringing the warning. I didn't feel that the fight scenes were well done, there was no tension and it was difficult to feel connected the way I have with other fantasy battles (for example Adrian Tchaikovsky - Shadows of the Apt).
Alongside all of this was reading by John Pruden. I found this a somewhat tedious monotone, in which it was difficult to tell descriptive passages apart from those that were supposed to full of action or suspense.
Will not be carrying on with this series and will probably steer clear of the narrator as well.

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