Dan Wells
Privateer Press/Skull Island eXpeditions
ebook (mobi, epub, pdf) $4.99
I wrote a few weeks ago in my review of In Thunder Forged that the Iron Kingdoms (TM) is a place I was looking forward to visiting again. Simon Berman was kind enough to send me a review copy of the latest novella in Privateer Press' Skull Island eXpeditions line. (Thank you very much, Simon.) The Warcaster Chronicles consists of two novellas so far, but if the quality of this one is consistent with the rest of the line, there will be more once word gets out about them.
Personally, I prefer the novella length because it allows an author to develop character and world while still maintaining a good pace. There's no time to get bogged down in unnecessary details in a novella. Plus, I can read one in one or two sittings without investing a major portion of my life.
The Butcher of Khardov is Orsus Zhoktavir. He's seven and a half feet tall and more than a match for any man. He watched his parents butchered by raiders when he was ten. He's working as a lumberjack and engaged to a girl named Lola. But you know what they say about the best laid plans...
