Priest: Ratcatchers, Book One: A Fantasy Hardboiled

by Mathew Colville

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For centuries the people of Ollghum Keep relied on the knights of the Green Order to protect them from the horrors of the haunted wood. Now, as before, a monstrous army marches on their small town. But this time, the Green Order is nowhere to be found. The Bishop sends the priest Heden into the wood, to find out why. Arriving at their secret priory, Heden discovers their commander is dead, the remaining knights paralyzed with despair. They will not act, they will not tell him what happened, show more and with each hour the monstrous army gets closer to Ollghum Keep. Thousands will die if the priest fails. When the knights start dying one by one, Heden must race to unravel the conspiracy of silence and save the knights from themselves so they can save the people they were sworn to guard. show less

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Starts up Witcher like, which felt great, then goes full Green Knight, which could have been good... but ends up boring, with endless not-so-good dialogues, weirdely inconsistent MC, way too little of anything else except dialogues (feels much like a theatrical play, actually) and annoying/ forced not revealing any hint for the mystery, just in order to make the novel exceedingly long. Good potential, but quite badly wasted opportunity. A pity...
What a book..

Reading this book was a rollercoaster ride. Sometimes I thought that book was not worth the effort, as some themes were repeatedly used but boy was I wrong. The setting is pretty good. The plot seems strected out sometimes but is fruitious at the end. The characters are so wonderfully flesed out. The flaw that i can think of is limited worldbuilding.

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813Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English
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PS3612 .C65Language and LiteratureAmerican literature

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