Priest of Bones (spoiler free review) by Peter McLean
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- Опубликовано: 23 апр 2024
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Nooo!! This is one of my favorite novels!
Why do bad things happen to good people??
Please make a best on audiobook fantasy books list
This would be great! More people should thumbs this up so he sees!
I haven't read it, but I was so surprised. Especially since you and Mike (from Mike's Book review) generally agree on these types of books and he was so hyped. Ah well, a shame you did not like it. Hope I'll do better as I've recently bought it. Thanks for the honest review!
Man, R.R. Virdi gets torn to shreds not once but twice in the same video! 😅
Try Anthony Ryan's The Covenant of Steel trilogy I'm pretty sure you'd love that. First person single POV epic fantasy/grim dark setting.
I disagree on the likeability of the MC, but I understand you point. He isn't very unique. He isn't funny. He is a bad guy. But I love the unwavering mob boss! He isn't very interesting, but he is consistent. I think it fits the tone very well!
Bruh I just finished it and loved it! Even more than Jade City which I was mid on. I thought some of the last act was strange, but I really liked it and I'm intrigued.
I love your hot takes Matt!
Yeah, this series is much better than Green Bone Saga for me.
Hey man. Audiobook rec for you if you see this. Blackwing by Ed MacDonald. Narrated by Simon Vance. I love other Vance narrations and I really liked the book. Grimdark post apocalyptic type setting.
As soon as you mentioned Peaky Blinders I got an Ad with Cillian Murphy in it 😂
I enjoyed it. It's a fun read. Nothing rich and compelling but it was entertaining. Haven't gotten around to book 4 yet
WOW! Couldn’t disagree more. One of my favorite series ever! So great!!!
I'm going to listen to the review but I won't let it taint my expectations! I'm sure I will love this series from what I hear
Yup, same here. I love this series
Completely disagree with this review. One of the best series I have read. Don't let this review stop you from reading it.
Yeah I loved this series too however I was disappointed with the narrator change for the last 2 books
@@marcstrozyk8020 I agree. I hate when there’s a narrator change. John Lee is one of my favorite narrators too.
It wasn't nothing super compelling but I definitely enjoyed this read I really like the protagonist I've read the first three books I think I gave it like four stars
If you're looking for great audio, check out The Thousand Names by Django Wexler. Great Napoleonic Era/flintlock Fantasy by an excellent reader Richard Poe.
If you liked that you should read the iron elves series by Chris Evans, it´s even better imo.
I've had this series on and off my TBR Mountain a few times now, but I think it's taking an indefinite leave of absence after your thoughts. I've heard mixed on it and I just can't start more series when I've got like 30+ ongoing. Thank you for easing my workload!
I'm shocked! I think as confident you'd love this book lol. The narration completely pulled me through and I read it in two days. Not sure if audio is different or not (I don't do audiobooks). Oh well - not every book is for every person! On to the next one!
The way of renegades by Steve D. Wall is a lot of fun! It’s narrated by Steven pacy. It just came out and it’s very enjoyable,
Amazing series, people. Peaky blinders meets fantasy, done right
Loved the characters and dialogue. Just thought the plot and world were a little barebones. Love the series overall though as I'm generally more of a character reader than a plot reader.
I loved this series in audio, but I agree that Tomas Piety was not a memorable character. I have a much more vivid memory of others from the book
I love a good dark book Matt and we have similar taste soo I’m curious more now,
I know Mike loved this book so I have this and need to read it now and see who’s thoughts I fall with
I feel a bit the same way with beyond redemption I’ve got a bit bored and haven’t finished 😕
You should check out the audio for Lost man’s lane by Scott Carson. It’s a great audiobook. It’s narrated by Corey Brill he does a phenomenal job. The book Is fantastic on its own, but his narration makes it 100 Times better. His performance has mesmerizing and captivating. I literally don’t wanna stop listening once I start.
Completely agree with everything you said. For me the author did rip off Peaky Blinders and then make it fantasy. It really annoyed me he used the same first name.
I found it to be fun, entertaining but not memorable.
I will say the later books are better than Peaky Blinders (I found the show lost its way with where to go but these books do the later story better)
I still have hope this series could work for me but less than I did before!
Sorry you didn't enjoy this one. In my opinion, this book was great and I thoroughly enjoyed it. In fact, I just bought the next one, Priest of Lies, and will read that as my next read. I read the physical book so perhaps that is the difference. I loved Tomas Piety and Bloody Anne as comrades as well as I need to find out more about the mysterious Billy the Boy.
I agree. Read this one. A solid 'meh' for me so won't continue the series.
It's called "late Victorian"
I read the first few chapters of this book and decided to put it aside for now. I think the fact that Ive seen Peaky Blinders actually reduced my enjoyment. Idk, too hard to tell with only a few chapters read.
Its very rough if you have seen peaky blinders it feels lile a rip off. The later books do step away from peaky blinders more and to me are better than Peaky Blinders.
Second on here!
Booooooooooooooooo ; ) Love this series.
Your taste sure is weird, McLean writes superbly crafted prose and plot.
Audiobooks are for plebians btw;)
This was also not my kind of book. And by all accounts I should've liked it. I feel like the perspective and the writing missed the mark.
I have two other series. Gentlemen Basterds, which I DNF'ed after book one because it was over written and I completely missed the heist it's supposed to be about (not to mention the fact that Locke keeps mentioning how much he saw as a kid but we NEVER get actual memories about the supposed things he saw before he was like 5 and joined the gangs). And The Green Bone Saga, which I loved for the most part. I had some issues with the pacing and characters Jade Legacy. I tend to like gritty grimdark a lot. Not this one.
And because you mentioned it: The audiobook is definitely the reason I finished it. The audio was great, but only so much can be done with tthe source material if it isn't for you.
Have you read The Raven's Mark trilogy by Ed MacDonald? I really enjoyed that. It has a bit of the "this is a debut" going on, especially with the first book. But that's fine because this was the author's debut and it was still good. Book one (Blackwing) mainly suffers from unnecessary swearing and rude language but it's not overly hard to look past since it's not offensive, just a bit unnecessary.
The Mark Lawrence comment does make think that the book does remind a bit of how Book of the Ancester is told. That the only series of his I've read and gave all of them 4 stars. McLean might've been trying to emulate that style of writing a POV but just missed the mark a tiny little bit at most of the important points and so the effect isn't entirely as intended. This reminds me of when I was reading the horror book The Ritual by Adam Nevill where the writing style keeps missing the marks on atmosphere just a little bit every single time and it's very clear he's trying to pull a specific thing off, he just doesn't have the skill to do it. When I read reviews I discovered the writing style was emulated from someone else. This made so much sense and it's a shame because for me "The Ritual" had 0 atmosphere and I could see what the author was trying to do. Had it worked, the atmosphere would've been amazing. It's a bit similar with this book and POV character.
Also yes to it just being bros doing bad stuff. The heisting was mainly just killing random people who seem to be physically in the way because they want to continue living their lives.
Gave this one 3 stars btw. And I think that's mainly because of its length. I gave Locke Lamora 2 because it's so long and overwritten and I had to give it three shots to finish it. This one I DNF'ed 0 times, but I was close a couple of times. I mainly continued because it wasn't that long and I had the audiobook. And yet I also think the audiobook negatively impacted my enjoyment. At least that's what if felt like when I wrote my review that I just looked up again. Now I would have to reread book one to even continue the series which I don't want to do so I guess this is a permanent DNF now.
I'll go back to Lilith Saintcrow's mediocre, but entertaining urban demon hunter fantasy that released in 2006 now. At least that gives me what I expect and I'm entertained by it.
It also has pretty good PTSD rep and the lead is bi, which I did not expect from a 2006 traditionally published book. I'm talking about the series Dante Valentine here btw and Dante is a woman (I thought it was a man before I started reading, but I like it this way too).
Couldn't agree more !!! Thank you ! Finally someone i agree with about this book
I 1000% agree with you! I read this book after reading Green Bone Saga because I was looking for mob-inspired fantasy. SO disappointed! Everything you said tracks with my experience in reading the book. Mainly: the main character Thomas is is just lame. Thank you for being awesome.
I guess it’s a good thing I just sold it.😂
Knew this was going to be a dud, pulled it off my TBR before your review even came out 😂
We get it. You really didn't like The First Binding. Not sure why you feel the need to mention it the past couple of reviews after you spent an entire video trashing it. We get it. You hated it. Move on
I know right? Fuck that book. Terrible ripoff. Wish they’d take it off the market
I have to disagree with you on this one. It’s one of my all time favorite series.
Haven’t even started the video yet but THANK YOU this book SUCKS and I feel gaslighted into thinking I read a different book looking at all the Goodreads reviews singing its praises!!
Creep-o vibes, maybe worse
Matt´s no creep, friend.
Getting a feeling SolidSnake means something creepy, and you're likely the "creep-o". Let those kids in your basement be free sir!
I LOVED peaky blinders, everything about this should have worked but for some reason ever since before I read I just had this feeling about it that it wouldn't do
How is this comment timestamped 17h ago when the vid dropped 7 min ago?
@@DarkestHour752 He´s a Fee-fee magician, he warps time with his feelings;)
It feels like he ripped off peaky blinders, so bad. Luckily the later books do a better job than peaky blinders does.