Soul Stealer: Legacy of the Blade, by Joseph J. Bailey
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Heaven has fallen. The legions of Chaos have overrun the world. Uërth is in ruins. With the Heavenly Host’s fall, Angel Swords rained from the heavens, littering the world in what was. Only the most honorable and purest of heart are able to take up the Angel Swords and wield them against the throngs of Chaos. These mighty Empyrean Knights are all that stand between Uërth and annihilation. Saedeus is neither pure of heart nor honorable. Nor does he wish to wield an Angel Sword. He just wants to be left alone with his mushrooms. And his pet rock. But he might not have a choice. When he inadvertently takes the soul of a dying Empyrean Knight into himself, his world, and his obligations, grow forever larger. With the help of his pet rock, the spirit of a heavenly knight, and the sword of a fallen angel, he might be able to make all the difference. If he doesn’t die first.
Soul Stealer: Legacy of the Blade, by Joseph J. Bailey- Amazon Sales Rank: #219362 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-10-07
- Released on: 2015-10-07
- Format: Kindle eBook
From the Author Q. What is the inspiration for the story? A. I am a huge fan of finely crafted swords, particularly Japanese katanas. I dream about owning a true master's blade. While reading about current bladesmiths, I found one craftsman who has created an improved form of Damascus steel. He calls his creations Angel Swords. What if angelic swords fell from the sky? Q. What draws you to this genre? A. I love exploring the possible, trying to make the imagined real. I enjoy diving in to new places and times, where other rules and potentials exist, and bringing those visions to life. Honestly, I cannot imagine doing anything else. Q. Tell us about the cover and the inspiration for it. A. The cover scene is inspired by Saedeus's first view of the Chaos Gate, the demonic portal to the Abyss, hovering above the bastion of the holy Empyrean Knights, as he prepares for the final battle against the legions of Chaos. Jon Sullivan, the cover artist, did a fantastic job capturing the scene.
About the Author When not at play with his family, Joe enjoys reading, writing, and relaxation. When he can, Joe also practices various martial traditions in which he has attained the Victim level of proficiency.For more information, please visit Joe's website at: josephjbailey.com.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. A humorous tale in a dark fantasy setting By Jon Crutchfield Disclaimer: I received a free copy of this book for the purpose of review from storycartel.com; this will in no way affect my objectivity in the review, but it’s best to point these things out.Soul Stealer is a book that caught my interest right away, and by that I mean the coverart. You know the saying, “Don’t judge a book by its cover?” Well, I’m quite bad at following this rule, and thankfully this book has a gorgeous cover.But we’re not here to talk about the coverart, we’re here to talk about the book. And I’m happy to say I was hooked right away; the humorous writing style combined with a dark fantasy setting leads to an extremely enjoyable read that I blew through in two days.However, that’s not to say it was perfect, and I like to go a bit in depth with my reviews of things, so before I get into what I liked too much, let’s talk about the few things I didn’t like first!Number 1 on my list of complaints would have to be the overuse of certain narrative style choices. I can tell it was intentional, but a few of them bother me a bit in a rather nitpicky way. Nothing about them is a dealbreaker, but the book could have flowed a tad smoother without them.These narrative choices are a slightly rambling, repetitive inner monologue, and an overuse of short sentence fragments.I love using sentence fragments in my own writing.But they get annoying.If you keep using them.All the time.It breaks the flow and makes things hard to read, when most of them could be done much simpler, especially the shorter fragment sections that could have easily been one line with a semicolon.And the sometimes repetitive nature of the narrative can grate on a mind a bit; having read four different versions of the same thoughts about the main character’s house in the opening, I was starting to get a little tired of it.Another problem I have is a slight overuse of ‘fancy’ words, such as mayhap or perchance. I get that this is a medieval fantasy setting, but their use often feels more tacked on than anything else to me, and almost any time they come up a more modern variant of the word would fit much better.And please, do not use perchance twice on the same page. It’s too uncommonly used a word in modern English to not look really out of place when overused, and frankly is something that I would have removed.However, this is a minor issue overall, and I found the book highly enjoyable.The narrative, while a bit flawed at times in the ways I mentioned above, still managed to remain highly engaging, and the comedic bent to it really helps the book stand out. The main character Saedeus in particular, is an outstanding character.Disregard whatever you’re imagining in terms of fantasy novel heroes, Saedeus is not them. His often downright pathetic attempts at being heroic in the first half of the book are highly entertaining, and his companions, a sentient pet rock with no dialog but somehow a charming personality, and Alric, the hero you would expect to be the main character, are entirely in a support role of the story.And those are essentially the only characters, at least the only ones who ever matter. Saedeus never joins a merry band of adventurers, there is no forced romantic subplot, nothing you’d expect in a traditional fantasy novel.And that’s fantastic.I have no real comments on the story; it’s engaging and manages to be original enough for a guy like me who basically only reads fantasy. I approve of the ending; it was exactly my kind of conclusive but still open ending, good stuff.I would recommend it. At only three bucks on Kindle, it’s definitely worth checking out if you’re looking for something slightly different from your fantasy stories, so long as the slight flaws in an otherwise interesting narrative don’t bother you too much; they certainly didn’t stop me from reading it.Also Soul Stealer: Legacy of the Blade is a really cool title; this is totally unimportant, but damn if it isn’t.
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful. Interesting premise, but annoying execution By John There was nothing explicitly WRONG with this book that causes me to rate it three stars, just a lot of choices the author made that meant I really didn't enjoy it:1. Sentence breaks -- the author is constantly using sentence and paragraph breaks to emphasize things, and while ok in moderation, it is used waaaaay more than it should.2. The sarcasm -- I like my characters to be sarcastic, but this main character's sarcastic comments often just left me confused, and was usually just implemented by the character saying something that was completely opposite of what was actually true. For example: the character remarks how amazing his house is, while previously just emphasizing that it was a terrible house. To me, this isn't witty, just confusing. It also doesn't help that all the sarcastic comments are made within the main character's own head, which provides little context for his remarks.3. Lack of side characters. The only real characters in this story are the MC, a ghost in his head, and a rock, and that's it. In addition, there is very little dialogue at all (even between the only characters), and hardly any background story into any characters besides the single main character. The entire story, I was hoping for the main character to actually interact with someone, but this never happened for more than a page before the other character would disappear.4. Repetition -- as we are trapped almost entirely in the head of the protagonist, it is understandable that lost of things will be repeated over and over. However, this got very annoying after a while, and was a large part of my desire to see other side characters, so we could at least get a new perspective on things.Because of these annoyances, I ended up skimming through the last third of the book, despite the interesting premise and introduction.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful. An Enjoyable Afternoon By B. Jackson I enjoyed this book. The premise while not entirely novel was still interesting, the personality of the character while not very deep was humorous and showed progression (though it was from one type of superficial to another), and the conclusion was satisfying.It was an interesting read but at the same time, I feel like the author is aware of his weaknesses as a writer and thus avoided them like the plague.Every character was incredibly weak and shallow like the main character. The main character was initially entirely cowardly, then cowardly but with a reluctant sense of duty, and then finally a complete sense of duty with a dose of sarcasm and self-depreciation at each stage. At each stage, his reactions could write themselves since he was a caricature and not a character. The fallen knight was solely an infinitely patient teacher. The stone (or at least what can be surmised from the protagonist's narration of the stone's commentary) was an eternally smug but loyal friend. The sword was an abstract support. The beings he meets at the mountain are absolutely pure and benevolent. The few other characters suffer from similar lack of depth.Stemming from the weak characters, what dialogue there is is weak. Pretty much everyone the protagonist interacts along his journey can read his mind thus making dialogue pointless. Those who cannot have only enough lines to move the plot along and offer no insight into the characters speaking.The world building left much to be desired. The author asserts that humanity has not fallen because the demons did not expect humanity to be at once as pure as Heaven and as depraved as Hell. To support this he describes a variety of groups with unusual and less than ethical means of combating the demons. However, these groups are never referenced again even when the protagonist reaches the main area of combat and the "depraved as Hell" is likewise forgotten with the only humans scene combating the demons being the Empyrean knights who are like the angels that once wielded their blades. A variety of races are introduced but most are conveniently avoided (as with most other living beings). The two other races the protagonist does encounter are frustratingly abstract in form and flat in character.For a book about combating demons, the combat is very poorly described. Part of the problem is the demons are just left as being described as monstrous masses of limbs or clouds of death. The combat is typically the protagonist attacking the "heart" of the demons and/or using the demons power to destroy other demons (with little in the way of describing *how* the demons are being destroyed).The book is honestly pulp. I do not mean this negatively just that it is best viewed as an enjoyable distraction for an afternoon that will soon fade from memory. Which is what it provided me and thus why I say I like it. Every book need not be a thorough exploration of humanity, society, reality, etc..
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