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Loading... Bitter Seeds (edition 2010)by Ian Tregillis
Work InformationBitter Seeds by Ian Tregillis
  
No current Talk conversations about this book.   ) cdaley | Nov 2, 2023 |  Characters: F I loved the concept of this world that Tregillis created. The Nazis created super powered soldiers. The British have demons that demand ever increasing blood prices for their help. I appreciated that magic definitely had a price, and it was not the silver bullet that would save the day. However, I did not connect with any of the characters, though I did start feeling very sorry for Will towards the end of the book. I also wish that there was more than one strong female character. Heike served as little more than a distraction, a minor plot point for Reinhardt, and another plot point to show Gretl's ruthlessness. Liv... was Marsh's wife and served no other purpose. (  ) wisemetis | Dec 26, 2022 | I can definitely see myself picking up the rest of the series at some point. (  ) Richard_Neary | Jan 15, 2022 | - - - - - - - Overall, this was a really interesting, unpredictable book, and I'm looking forward to the next one in the series ( ) KrakenTamer | Oct 23, 2021 | English intelligent is set on their trail almost by accident, but they don’t know what they are up against. So they turn to England’s old magics and the warlocks. Okay, if that hasn’t hooked you already then I’m not sure what will. Super-soldier Nazis and warlocks. Come on, that’s intriguing, is it not? However, if that description has you in mind of an adventure story well, I don’t think you’ll get quite what you expect. Yes, technically there are adventure scenes, battles and spies, heroes and villains. But I think that in this book Tregillis has set out to show that war is a dirty business and everyone involved gets their hands dirty, very dirty in some cases. His characters are not neatly divisible into good and evil. I suppose there are a few who we can say with are the bad guys. The doctor. Gretel. But they don’t have their “good” counterparts. We have the allies, the guys we are supposed to be rooting for, but they do their share of evil deeds. Perhaps in the name of the innocent, but really? we have all heard what the road to hell is paved with. It is a very well told story, even if I didn’t really like any of the characters. But I did understand them, and empathise with some of them to varying degrees, and that is the important thing I think. ( ) Fence | Jan 5, 2021 |
 don’t hang around, pick up a copy of ‘Bitter Seeds’ and get reading right away. I particularly enjoyed the way that Tregillis not only weaves his story into the historical background (making it all sound very plausible and part of events) but uses it to send the path of history running in a slightly different direction at times. It’s ‘alternate history’ done so cleverly that you don’t even realise you’re running down a different track. Tregillis shows that he has an eye for the spectacular, on more than one level, with scenes that show just what the clever use of a relatively minor ability can do to a tank, a group of enemy combatants and even the entire Maginot Line. It’s not just the fight scenes that make for compulsive reading. The use of these powers sends the plot in some very interesting directions with the march to victory switching between parties on a regular basis. Things move so quickly that you have to keep reading to follow it all, you don’t dare miss a word. It would be doing the book a real disservice though to paint it as a straight fight between powers though, no matter how well it is done on the page. For me, the real strength of ‘Bitter Seeds’ (and maybe where this title was born) lies in it’s exploration of occult warfare and the price that must be paid for victory ‘Bitter Seeds’ is nothing short of an awesome read Ten out of Ten Belongs to SeriesIs contained inAwards
It's 1939. The Nazis have supermen, the British have demons, and one perfectly normal man gets caught in between. Raybould Marsh is a British secret agent in the early days of the Second World War, haunted by something strange he saw on a mission during the Spanish Civil War: a German woman with wires going into her head who looked at him as if she knew him. When the Nazis start running missions with people who have unnatural abilities--a woman who can turn invisible, a man who can walk through walls, and the woman Marsh saw in Spain who can use her knowledge of the future to twist the present--Marsh is the man who has to face them. He rallies the secret warlocks of Britain to hold the impending invasion at bay. But magic always exacts a price. Eventually, the sacrifice necessary to defeat the enemy will be as terrible as outright loss would be. No library descriptions found. 
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