Conan - Blood of the Serpent: The All-New Chronicles of the Worlds Greatest Barbarian Hero

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Conan - Blood of the Serpent: The All-New Chronicles of the Worlds Greatest Barbarian Hero

Conan - Blood of the Serpent: The All-New Chronicles of the Worlds Greatest Barbarian Hero

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I adore these books. Howard had a gritty, vibrant style—broadsword writing that cut its way to the heart, with heroes who are truly larger than life.”—David Gemmell, author of Legend Stirling combines complex, believable characters, meticulous research, and a fascinating setup to produce a book you won’t want to—and won’t be able to—put down. An outstanding piece of work.”—Harry Turtledove on Island in the Sea of Time In Howard’s grim and all too realistic view, the barbarians are always at the gate, and once a culture allows itself to grow soft, decadent or simply neglectful, it will be swept away by the primitive and ruthless.”—Michael Dirda, The Washington Post

The adventure itself is a cool series of events and set pieces. It mostly uses the brutality of the natural world as threats rather than the supernatural. Which in a way works when you consider the pseudo-historical nature of the Conan stories. Overall, it’s a travelogue but one with a bunch of cool stops.l along the way. I will say that there was enough fun action in Blood of the Serpent to elevate it to a passing grade for me. For example the mystical elements, especially the curse that one of the characters receives, worked well for me. There was a cool random encounter in cave. And yes, when the action happens it's a lot of fun. Conan believes the difference between his time as a thief and the Sukhmet street thugs is that Conan never accosted folk on the street, instead robbing from rich and powerful in their own homes, including a magician and a fallen god. He did, indeed, try to steal from a place occupied by a magician and what could be considered a fallen god in " The Tower of the Elephant."

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This volume delivers an engaging and approachable new adventure along with one of the very best of the classic stories.”—GrimDark Magazine

I think this should have been called Conan - Plod of the Serpent because man, this book dragged. Very little actually happens, and Stirling pads out the books with explanations on...well, everything. Pun: In Stygia, in dice gambling, it's noted that what would be a winning throw of double sixes is "the demons" and a losing throw. Instead, the winning throw is double ones, or "Eyes of Set," known commonly and in real life as "snake eyes."Perspective Flip: The final scene of the novel shows the first scene of Red Nails, but from Conan's perspective, rather than Valeria's.



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