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Title: Violence of Action
Series:
Forgotten Ruin #3
Author: Jason Anspach &
Nick Cole
Rating: 3 of 5 Stars
Genre:
Military Fantasy
Pages: 249
Words:
85K
Hey, would you look at that? There’s an actual story in this book!
AND. I only counted 2 instances of Anspach and Cole (the authors)
rimming the rangers. Talk about a relief.
So the rangers have to take down Smog the evil green dragon who is in
an alliance with other evil powers that menace the kingdom of men.
They take him out and rescue a bunch of captive elves and find the
King of the Elves, who Last of Autumn is betrothed to. So no more
googly eyes for the narrator at his elven lady love. Awww, so sad.
Honestly, I was expecting her to die a horrible death, so at least
this way she stays alive. Hard core military types are married to the
Service and a wife comes in a distant second. Very few relationships
can survive that.
This was the kind of story I was waiting for since the very
beginning. Special Forces setting themselves an objective and then
killing everything that stands in the way of them accomplishing that
objective. I am definitely going to keep reading the series now but I
simply can’t recommend it to anyone else. The first 2 books just
destroy any chance of that. I’ve never been in this situation
before, where the first couple of books are absolutely terrible and
then improve dramatically. Usually I’m done with a series before
that point (or it never does improve, which is what usually ends up
happening).
I also can’t recommend starting here because then you’d be lost.
Why is the Ranger Captain a were-tiger? Who is Last of Autumn and why
is it so shattering to the narrator that they rescue her betrothed?
Who is this evil Vampire SEAL? All of the big points get covered, so
in that regards you could start here, but all those little things
like what I mention, well, good luck. I guess this is for
super-hard-core Anspach & Cole fans OR super duper military types
who like annoying narrators. I’m glad I stuck through to this point
but it pretty much ate up all the goodwill A&C have built up with
me. They don’t get any more chances from me.
After the main story is a small “prequel” story that starts to
introduce why everything in the Ruin is so Dungeons and Dragons. Long
and short, a crazy genius woman, whose only good memories were of a
summer when she got to play some D&D with other normal kids, goes
off the rails completely and uses nanotech to start changing the
world. It was complete “scyenze” but it sounded cool and was good
enough for me. And since this is pure fiction and not “A Message
From They Who Know Better Than Poor Plebian Me” masquerading as a
story, I have no problem with said scyenze being used.
★★★☆☆
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