Kings of the Wyld: The Band, Book One
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"Ein Buch das sich selbst nicht allzu ernst nimmt" und genau das macht es auch aus. Es gab viel zum schmunzeln und war einfach ein tolles Abenteuer mit in die Jahre gekommenen "Helden" deren Wehwehchen,wenn ich aus dem Bett steige,sehr gut nachvollziehen kann. 🤭 Ein Antagonist mit Häschenohren und Wesen wie der sagenumwobene Eulenbär ist mir so auch noch nicht untergekommen 😂 Eine tolle Fantasygeschichte ohne anstrengend gewesen zu sein 👍
Absolutes Highlight!
Das war mal eines der lustigsten Bücher, das ich je gelesen habe. Ich weiß gar nicht so richtig, wo ich anfangen soll und wie ich meine Gedanken am besten ohne Spoiler zusammenfasse. Starten wir mal bei den Charakteren, die waren nämlich allesamt genial. Clay als Protagonist ist zwar ein eher passiver Charakter, dafür aber ein super Erzähler. Sein innerer Monolog ist richtig schön trocken. Auch die anderen vier Mitglieder von Saga sind mir richtig ans Herz gewachsen mit ihren Eigenheiten. Ich fand es super interessant mal mit Charakteren durch die Story zu gehen, die ihre goldenen Zeiten eigentlich schon lang hinter sich haben. Dadurch kamen viele Anekdoten aus ihrer Vergangenheit auf und auch ein paar Running Gags durften nicht fehlen. Der Autor schafft es zudem, selbst den scheinbar unwichtigsten Nebencharakteren Tiefe zu verleihen. Es haben einfach alle ihre einzigartige Persönlichkeit und Vorgeschichte. Das Buch ist trotz seiner 500+ Seiten wirklich kurzweilig. Es passiert einfach immer irgendwas, sodass man nur selten Pausen zum Durchatmen hat. Wenn man denkt, dass man einen schlechten Tag hat, kann man sich nämlich sicher sein, dass Saga einen noch schlechteren hat. Der humorvolle Schreibstil hat auch dazu beigetragen, dass ich gar nicht mehr aufhören wollte zu lesen. Man merkt, dass das Buch sich selbst nicht allzu ernst nimmt. Gleichzeitig ist aber auch Platz für emotionalere Szenen. Die Stimmung wechselt manchmal sogar mitten im Satz, was ich wirklich genial geschrieben fand. Ich musste da schon das ein oder andere Tränchen verdrücken. Der einzige Part, der mir nicht zu 100% gefallen hat war das Ende. Das hätte für meinen Geschmack ein bisschen ausführlicher sein dürfen anstatt so abrupt in den Epilog überzugehen. Andererseits hat das schon in den Stil des Buchs gepasst, deshalb ist das nicht so schlimm. Insgesamt hatte ich mit Kings of the Wyld einfach unglaublich viel Spaß. Es war einfach genau mein Humor und hat alles vereint, was ich an Fantasy so liebe. Wer auf der Suche nach gemütlicher, humorvoller Fantasy ist, ist hier genau richtig. Ich bin jedenfalls gespannt auf den zweiten Band, in der Hoffnung dass dort einige offen gebliebene Fragen geklärt werden und ein paar meiner Lieblingscharaktere wieder auftauchen.
Oh my gods. This was SUCH a good read. I hoped it would be entertaining when I started it, but I wasn't prepared just how much I would fall in love with it. I laughed, I cried, I marked many passages. This book has it all. If you check the author's website, you'll see a lot of pages about background stuff on KotW and it gave me warm fuzzy feelings when I had just started out reading the book. Because you can tell how much Mr. Eames loves the world he built. And the longer you read, the more you will feel this and you will also begin to love it. The wold is funny (so many good jokes) and charming and the characters ... oh the characters. I love everyone in this book, no exceptions. I'm sorry I can't really write anything that makes sense. My mind is buzzing with feelings for this book. It was one of the best reads I every had the pleasure to lay eyes on. It instantly jumped to one of my favourites, even before finishing. I'm more than looking forward to the second book. And I hope Mr. Eames will let us visit his world in the further future too.
I'm SO IN LOVE with this book! I need a movie adaption for this! It's the best debut I've ever read. Given the fact that I rarely rate anything "not Tolkien" 5 glowing stars: I really mean it! Excellent prose, an engaging plot, the worldbuilding is fantastic (it has everything I ever wanted! fabled monsters, grim creatures, enchanted swords and incredibly cool war bands), the humor and the tone are well balanced and the characters are the cherries in top! I loved each and every one of them. Kings of the Wyld had me feeling so many things at once, I can't wait to pick up the sequel.
A really awesome read. Hilarious and full of action. Loved it.
Das Buch war nicht schlecht, ich war nur eindeutig nicht die Zielgruppe.
Für Leute, die viel High Fantasy lesen und mal eine eher humorvolle Auseinandersetzung mit dem Genre lesen wollen. Entertainment 3/5 Idee 4/5 Plot 3/5 Charaktere 3/5 Schreibstil 4/5 Impact 3/5
A solid 4* read, but it wasn't really that funny as I was lead to believe beforehand, I don't know. I still really enjoyed it though!
Authors, take note: This is how you write a great story about men that is feminist at the same time!This book was what I needed when I needed it. For Corona reasons, I can't go larping this year and was craving some larp vibes. This book delivered. Oh, did this book deliver! “Watch this!” he said, and what happened next might have been extraordinarily funny were their lives not at stake. But they were, so it wasn’t.”Kings of the Wyld is about a band of retired mercenaries/heroes who, because of reasons, get together for one last heroic adventure - although it does not start out heroic, because they have become old, cranky and unfit and the world has moved on without them. Nevertheless, they were the most feared and famous band out there once, and over time, they all start remembering it.All the while, they are allowed to have feelings and stuff, while doing heroic things! And they don't even have to be sexist to be manly! (I was actually weary while reading this, always expecting to encounter the disappointing sexism on the next page. This is what epic fantasy books have done to me!) “For a while no one spoke, because in the roundabout course of thirty-some years they had said just about all there was to say to one another, until finally Clay could bear the silence no longer and cleared his throat. “I love you guys,” he said, and gods-be-damned if his voice didn’t sell him out at the end and crack like a boy of twelve summers.”So, some short facts about this book.- It's in turns funny, heartwarming, dramatic and full of action.- Not all the jokes do it for me, but I don't mind, humour is super hard and I don't usually read funny books, so I'm not the best judge here.- Really cool worldbuilding.- No teenage protagonists anywhere around, but a band of retired adventurers/heroes and that was so refreshing.- They are full of flaws and also good.- There are bawdy jokes and the world is not quite feminist (although more so than most other classic fantasy worlds), but the story certainly is, even though it isn't centered on women.- Well-paced story.- Great action sequences.- Mood and owlbears! <3- Manpain, but in a good way.- Quotable sentences. This book is full of them.- The story is equal parts epic and grounded.- A deava in black armour and with huge black wings who can fly and is accompanied by a small army of martial arts monks. I mean, come on!- That scene where Clay realized for the first time <spoiler>that he was the leader of Saga all along!</spoiler> “As individuals they were each of them fallible, discordant as notes without harmony. But as a band they were something more, something perfect in its own intangible way.”Very early on I had started to expect this book would make me cry before the end. But then I found the ending to actually be a bit disappointing.Here's why: <spoiler>The book, although it contains a lot of humour, presents the world of Saga as gritty and dark, even grimdark. There is a lot of dangerous stuff in this world, plus a huge conflict, we meet a lot of people (and other beings) who have experienced bad things in this world, our protagonists included. People constantly worry about each other's wellbeing. There are some pretty foreshadow-y scenes. And then ... nothing bad happens. They succeed in everything. I had expected at least one of them to die, probably Clay or Gabe just when he sees his daughter but before he can reach her. The stakes were so high and then we have this feelgood-fantasy ending and it just didn't fit the rest of the story for me.</spoiler> “Where you stand, I stand.”
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"Ein Buch das sich selbst nicht allzu ernst nimmt" und genau das macht es auch aus. Es gab viel zum schmunzeln und war einfach ein tolles Abenteuer mit in die Jahre gekommenen "Helden" deren Wehwehchen,wenn ich aus dem Bett steige,sehr gut nachvollziehen kann. 🤭 Ein Antagonist mit Häschenohren und Wesen wie der sagenumwobene Eulenbär ist mir so auch noch nicht untergekommen 😂 Eine tolle Fantasygeschichte ohne anstrengend gewesen zu sein 👍
Absolutes Highlight!
Das war mal eines der lustigsten Bücher, das ich je gelesen habe. Ich weiß gar nicht so richtig, wo ich anfangen soll und wie ich meine Gedanken am besten ohne Spoiler zusammenfasse. Starten wir mal bei den Charakteren, die waren nämlich allesamt genial. Clay als Protagonist ist zwar ein eher passiver Charakter, dafür aber ein super Erzähler. Sein innerer Monolog ist richtig schön trocken. Auch die anderen vier Mitglieder von Saga sind mir richtig ans Herz gewachsen mit ihren Eigenheiten. Ich fand es super interessant mal mit Charakteren durch die Story zu gehen, die ihre goldenen Zeiten eigentlich schon lang hinter sich haben. Dadurch kamen viele Anekdoten aus ihrer Vergangenheit auf und auch ein paar Running Gags durften nicht fehlen. Der Autor schafft es zudem, selbst den scheinbar unwichtigsten Nebencharakteren Tiefe zu verleihen. Es haben einfach alle ihre einzigartige Persönlichkeit und Vorgeschichte. Das Buch ist trotz seiner 500+ Seiten wirklich kurzweilig. Es passiert einfach immer irgendwas, sodass man nur selten Pausen zum Durchatmen hat. Wenn man denkt, dass man einen schlechten Tag hat, kann man sich nämlich sicher sein, dass Saga einen noch schlechteren hat. Der humorvolle Schreibstil hat auch dazu beigetragen, dass ich gar nicht mehr aufhören wollte zu lesen. Man merkt, dass das Buch sich selbst nicht allzu ernst nimmt. Gleichzeitig ist aber auch Platz für emotionalere Szenen. Die Stimmung wechselt manchmal sogar mitten im Satz, was ich wirklich genial geschrieben fand. Ich musste da schon das ein oder andere Tränchen verdrücken. Der einzige Part, der mir nicht zu 100% gefallen hat war das Ende. Das hätte für meinen Geschmack ein bisschen ausführlicher sein dürfen anstatt so abrupt in den Epilog überzugehen. Andererseits hat das schon in den Stil des Buchs gepasst, deshalb ist das nicht so schlimm. Insgesamt hatte ich mit Kings of the Wyld einfach unglaublich viel Spaß. Es war einfach genau mein Humor und hat alles vereint, was ich an Fantasy so liebe. Wer auf der Suche nach gemütlicher, humorvoller Fantasy ist, ist hier genau richtig. Ich bin jedenfalls gespannt auf den zweiten Band, in der Hoffnung dass dort einige offen gebliebene Fragen geklärt werden und ein paar meiner Lieblingscharaktere wieder auftauchen.
Oh my gods. This was SUCH a good read. I hoped it would be entertaining when I started it, but I wasn't prepared just how much I would fall in love with it. I laughed, I cried, I marked many passages. This book has it all. If you check the author's website, you'll see a lot of pages about background stuff on KotW and it gave me warm fuzzy feelings when I had just started out reading the book. Because you can tell how much Mr. Eames loves the world he built. And the longer you read, the more you will feel this and you will also begin to love it. The wold is funny (so many good jokes) and charming and the characters ... oh the characters. I love everyone in this book, no exceptions. I'm sorry I can't really write anything that makes sense. My mind is buzzing with feelings for this book. It was one of the best reads I every had the pleasure to lay eyes on. It instantly jumped to one of my favourites, even before finishing. I'm more than looking forward to the second book. And I hope Mr. Eames will let us visit his world in the further future too.
I'm SO IN LOVE with this book! I need a movie adaption for this! It's the best debut I've ever read. Given the fact that I rarely rate anything "not Tolkien" 5 glowing stars: I really mean it! Excellent prose, an engaging plot, the worldbuilding is fantastic (it has everything I ever wanted! fabled monsters, grim creatures, enchanted swords and incredibly cool war bands), the humor and the tone are well balanced and the characters are the cherries in top! I loved each and every one of them. Kings of the Wyld had me feeling so many things at once, I can't wait to pick up the sequel.
A really awesome read. Hilarious and full of action. Loved it.
Das Buch war nicht schlecht, ich war nur eindeutig nicht die Zielgruppe.
Für Leute, die viel High Fantasy lesen und mal eine eher humorvolle Auseinandersetzung mit dem Genre lesen wollen. Entertainment 3/5 Idee 4/5 Plot 3/5 Charaktere 3/5 Schreibstil 4/5 Impact 3/5
A solid 4* read, but it wasn't really that funny as I was lead to believe beforehand, I don't know. I still really enjoyed it though!
Authors, take note: This is how you write a great story about men that is feminist at the same time!This book was what I needed when I needed it. For Corona reasons, I can't go larping this year and was craving some larp vibes. This book delivered. Oh, did this book deliver! “Watch this!” he said, and what happened next might have been extraordinarily funny were their lives not at stake. But they were, so it wasn’t.”Kings of the Wyld is about a band of retired mercenaries/heroes who, because of reasons, get together for one last heroic adventure - although it does not start out heroic, because they have become old, cranky and unfit and the world has moved on without them. Nevertheless, they were the most feared and famous band out there once, and over time, they all start remembering it.All the while, they are allowed to have feelings and stuff, while doing heroic things! And they don't even have to be sexist to be manly! (I was actually weary while reading this, always expecting to encounter the disappointing sexism on the next page. This is what epic fantasy books have done to me!) “For a while no one spoke, because in the roundabout course of thirty-some years they had said just about all there was to say to one another, until finally Clay could bear the silence no longer and cleared his throat. “I love you guys,” he said, and gods-be-damned if his voice didn’t sell him out at the end and crack like a boy of twelve summers.”So, some short facts about this book.- It's in turns funny, heartwarming, dramatic and full of action.- Not all the jokes do it for me, but I don't mind, humour is super hard and I don't usually read funny books, so I'm not the best judge here.- Really cool worldbuilding.- No teenage protagonists anywhere around, but a band of retired adventurers/heroes and that was so refreshing.- They are full of flaws and also good.- There are bawdy jokes and the world is not quite feminist (although more so than most other classic fantasy worlds), but the story certainly is, even though it isn't centered on women.- Well-paced story.- Great action sequences.- Mood and owlbears! <3- Manpain, but in a good way.- Quotable sentences. This book is full of them.- The story is equal parts epic and grounded.- A deava in black armour and with huge black wings who can fly and is accompanied by a small army of martial arts monks. I mean, come on!- That scene where Clay realized for the first time <spoiler>that he was the leader of Saga all along!</spoiler> “As individuals they were each of them fallible, discordant as notes without harmony. But as a band they were something more, something perfect in its own intangible way.”Very early on I had started to expect this book would make me cry before the end. But then I found the ending to actually be a bit disappointing.Here's why: <spoiler>The book, although it contains a lot of humour, presents the world of Saga as gritty and dark, even grimdark. There is a lot of dangerous stuff in this world, plus a huge conflict, we meet a lot of people (and other beings) who have experienced bad things in this world, our protagonists included. People constantly worry about each other's wellbeing. There are some pretty foreshadow-y scenes. And then ... nothing bad happens. They succeed in everything. I had expected at least one of them to die, probably Clay or Gabe just when he sees his daughter but before he can reach her. The stakes were so high and then we have this feelgood-fantasy ending and it just didn't fit the rest of the story for me.</spoiler> “Where you stand, I stand.”