Lords of Asylum
A Grimdark Fantasy
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Narrated by:
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Paul Jenkins
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By:
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Kevin Wright
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For the best in grimdark fantasy
Plague howls across Europe, the Hundred Years' War rages across the land, and the city of Asylum is consumed by a brutal civil war. Amidst this threefold maelstrom of havoc, enter Sir Luther Slythe Krait: a knight long bled dry of chivalry and shorn of heroism. A man whose lone desire is to slink through the backwaters and alleyways of civilization. To go unnoticed, unwanted, unneeded.
But Sir Luther is a man who gets what he deserves, not what he desires. Thrust into a deadly game of cat-and-mouse amidst Asylum's power-mad lords, can Sir Luther play one off against another long enough to accomplish his task? Can he unmask the truth behind a vile murder? And hunt down the killer? Will he bring him to justice? Or will he just die trying?
Listen to Lords of Asylum and find out today.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- C. Rowlands
- 23-12-18
Lead character is clear strength of this book
Detective work features prominently in many urban fantasy novels, but it is rather less common in a more traditional fantasy setting and yet that is exactly what we have with this book with the flawed knight, Sir Luther being forced into investigating a crime in order to save his captive brother and it works rather well as a premise.
The author does a good job of setting the scene, in a historical Europe rather than an invented world with the various characters and factions all helping to add to the feeling of it being a real and very flawed place.
The style of the narrator also helped to add to the overall feel of the world with his tone effectively conveying the cynical and world-weary nature of the main character while also being suitably distinctive with the rest of the cast too.
Overall, this was an interesting and enjoyable listen that made a nice change for me since most dystopian novels tend to go with a sci-fi setting instead. One very slight complaint, the suffix to the title seems a little unwieldy whether it is the book or audiobook version and just keeping it as Lords of Asylum would have seemed better.
[Note - I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.]
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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- Alan
- 04-07-22
Medievally Grimdark.
Damn that was excellent, Grimdark and deliciously written. Kevin Wright's Lords of Asylum is the first book in the Serpent Knight trilogy set in the dark medieval days of Europe.
Kevin Wright delivers an engrossing read that is part horror, part fantasy and detective story, a medieval political struggle between Christianity and Jewish settlers. The worldbuilding and plot is brilliant, from the very first page the author draws you in with its erie setting and nefarious characters. The Main protagonist Sir Luther Slythe Krait is a justiciar, a judge, jury and executioner, whose sense of justice, honed by long training and hunting outlaws, have forged him into a peerless warrior and merciless hunter. When he is set upon by a Lord and Lady and their hench men, they have captured his brother and in return for his life he must find the Killers of their murdered sons. With no other option he must endure his new task and find these would be assassins. Let the hunt begin. Paul Jenkins the narrator gives a brilliant preformence throughout the whole book. If you love Grimdark fantasy, I highly recommend...😁🔥🖤💥
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