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Story of my life. 🤣

In all seriousness though: is it the narration itself (the voice) or more the story, in your opinion?

@@JTWilliamsauthor It’s the story. Are you the author? Then I am actually sorry for the harsh words. I have surely heard or read worse stuff. And I know how much effort it is to create a book. It’s just that I felt at times that all cliches about dwarfes were there. Without being able to name any details, I remember a moment when some bearded guy was talking to another bearded guy and one was probably a king and then randomly they got attacked, but it was kind of inconsequential because they just started cracking skulls with some hammers. This reads like the latest lord of the rings movies with dwarves. Everything is super important and epic and everyone is super bearded and probably muscular. And therefore nothing is. Well but I did not finish the story so maybe this is totally unfair in terms of criticism!

@@BlueQualityRhythm Ha. Oddly, another comment said i went 'beyond the cliches" of The Hobbit and the like but it's all an opinion for and against that in the first place. No worries about the harsh words, at all. Cliches are definitely there but it's partially because I like the cliches (I wasn't trying to show dwarves in some brand new light) but also because these particular dwarves are not run-of-the-mill dwarves. While the King has his own weaknesses, the Hammersongs are the dwarf equivalent of 'Special Forces' and so they do everything at the highest level... especially combat. I wrote this story as novellas and as such I fully intended for them to be lighter and simpler. These were my 'light' writing between my The Rogue Elf and Stormborn Saga series which are much more detailed and longer. As this story has progressed (finishing up the 10th novella now), I went weirder and weirder, getting much further from the origins here and currently Turgon and a ranger apprentice are in a pseudo-Termina Field (Majora's Mask reference) trapped by an evil fairy goddess... guess you could say it got VERY weird! Fast forward to my other series and not only do the Ikinidor dwarves appear in my Blackmoon War series but also Turgon, just appeared as a renegade dwarf in a dwarf city in the Far East as part of my The Rogue Elf series. Oddly, this series becomes less epic and far more sword and sorcery than I originally expected but it's all good fun. I've got a book coming that is about to kill several of these characters so, it's a bit bittersweet thinking about where they all got started!

And I just noticed the shaman sounds like Count Dracula

This is the OLD version of this book and while it was okay, it has definitely aged! I love the new version of this and the follow up books but those are only available via my publisher (on Audible, Spotify, etc.)

Unfortunately not. One of my publishers owns the audio rights and I can't upload those. :(

This was a collection of the OG three titles. The series has fourteen total starting with Ranger's Fury, Stormborn #4. The books get a lot longer, too. 😁

@JTWilliamsauthor somebody post them! It's harder and harder to find good stories.

You are very, very welcome! He is legit one of my favorite too! Def get in contact after this series if you want more of him AND don't miss Wizard Trials. I don't re if I have that one up here on YT but it follows him when he first gets to the Glacial Seas! 😁

I have listened to every book you have up on UA-cam. I have never heard of witch trials but I'm going to look into it tonight. Do you have any books of Eevrin younger learning his abilities. Happy Thanksgiving thanks for getting back to me

Female warriors... but I'm about as anti-'woke' as you can be. Historically, females were warriors in many cultures and considering this is post-apoc in an anti-fantasy world... there are warriors of many walks. This is borderline semi-religious at times and anti-fallen Angel, if anything. But it was a dark one off book set in a prehistory-esque time in my world.

@@JTWilliamsauthor there was, but they wasnt shoulder to shoulder with the men for example, vikings would have them in the back out of the way rather then locked in with them inside a shield wall it was more of a posture thing and less of an actual fighting thing but i understand your point

@@JTWilliamsauthor ill check it out, thnks for the reply

Awesome! 😁 So happy you enjoyed it!

100%.

@JTWilliamsauthor I love this series even more for that 🤣

Something like that. It looks like the yt auto-setting is really overzealous... I'll get that done tonight

Fixed

Valrin, Evurn, Aeveam, Braei (well, not in this book... too soon? ;) ), Millia, Ordak... I'm sure there are more I'm forgetting. I wrote this one so long ago now...

One of my favorite stories to write as I was preparing to release Our Dead Gods!

@@JTWilliamsauthor that was a really good one too

Loved listen to this one

Hell. Yt lost its mind with that. I'll see what I can do.

Low to the ground, heavily armored, packs a punch... yeah, checks out. 🤣

Enough for the amount I pushed it. For readers of my other series, it has quite a few tidbits of lore and it feeds into other books. I wrote it as a laid back, palate cleanser between my larger and more complex books. 🍺

@@JTWilliamsauthor Cool. 🍻

RIGHT? Absolute drivel not worth the GB of space it takes up. 10 out of 10 it should be burned like the orc trash it is.

​@@JTWilliamsauthorNo. It is not THAT bad. The individual sections are acceptably written. They are just not well connected.

100% love Nick Denton's work! I cannot wait to complete all the books with him!

I mean... the entire point of the Our Dead Gods arc is the fall of men and their rise against the demonic beasts that infect their bloodline.

Well, then that's a lot of trash books in the world. Appreciate your feedback.

Glad you enjoyed it! I'll have the next one publishing on Amazon soon so the audio will pop up here in the coming weeks.

Me too.

YES. :)

You are so welcome! I'm happy you're liking it!

Well, check out Blademaster: Orc Hunt at Demonhead. It's set during the orc wars! It is still on preorder at the moment but it's coming this month!

@@JTWilliamsauthor cool

I thought so, too! Happy you enjoyed it!

The OG reason for Stormborn 1-3 was backstory for Valrin who first appeared here! Thst said: This is the older edition of Half-Bloods Rising. After I finished Stormborn Saga 14 I rewrote portions of Half-Bloods Rising to better align with Valrin. I added 2 or so more chapters and several entire new scenes with Valrin much more in line with what you'd expect of the Stranta-Vedi. ;) That version is only in stores.

Happy to hear you finished Stormborn Saga though! That's a lot of listening!

I agree. It's a small thing but I'm gonna start uploading my own voice narrating these stories. It's super time consuming and I try to focus most of my time on writing BUT it might be work it for you listeners. :)

You can get them all in thst format. The first three are performed by a narrator I work with and the remainder are AI for now. (So, not perfect but the YT ones are better than the Amazon virtual voice ones IMO)

Thank you!

Fixed. I did not realize how YT had stacked the ads...