Synopsis
As someone who loved Ringlander, this little extra story was fantastic. I devoured The Battle That Was Lost in one sitting, Staegrim’s humour and the little bits that expanded the world I knew from Ringlander, added new depth to the world.
Jackson’s deft hand paints the strokes of this action-packed battle novella in blood and graveyard humour.
My favourite part about this novella were the tid-bits of worldbuilding that played their part to add intrigue to the story I’d already read were excellent: like Kemen sandseller with fork like daggers and psy-powers; this immediately made me want more from the world, more of it. In terms of doing the trick to bring more readers to the main story.
Known faces like Tactician Laeb made this for me, perhaps if this was your entry into the series, it wouldn’t hit as well as it did with me. But, getting to see more from this character hit the mark for me; also, I don’t know whether it was my fast-reading or whether it wasn’t as spelled out in the main book, but this is a great starting place to understand the Bohr a little better. I felt the picture painted of them here in this novella was more striking and clearer than in Ringlander; I’m not one for making my own images of characters, I do prefer when it is given to me, so this increased my enjoyment overall and I think when I reread book 1, it’ll sit a lot better. I’m known to miss stuff though, so that might just be a me point.
I would have liked to see more of Laeb’s tactical prowess – as we heard a lot about this battle in the main series, and I thought it would be some of his genius that shone through the passage, but my expectations were subverted when we got more Forbrngr action. Though, I can’t really complain about that. I’d never have guessed how this battle was decided from the events of book one, so that might be a bonus point.
Overall, it’s a great little story that paints a clearer picture of some events and characters from book 1, Jackson’s writing really does carry this with its clear and concise telling, and easily readable prose. I feel like this is going to be a series that I’ll certainly stick with.
Synopsis
As someone who loved Ringlander, this little extra story was fantastic. I devoured The Battle That Was Lost in one sitting, Staegrim’s humour and the little bits that expanded the what I knew from Ringlander, added new depth to the world.
Jackson’s deft hand paints the strokes of this action-packed battle novella in blood and graveyard humour.
My favourite part about this novella were the tid-bits of worldbuilding that played their part to add intrigue to the story I’d already read were excellent: like Kemen sandseller with fork like daggers and psy-powers; this immediately made me want more from the world, to hear all these extra, smaller stories Jackson must have up his sleeve. In terms of bringing more readers to the main story, this is certain to do the trick.
Known faces like Tactician Laeb made this for me, perhaps if this was your entry into the series, it wouldn’t hit as well as it did with me. But, getting to see more from this character really hit the mark. Also, I don’t know whether it was my fast-through of the first, or whether it wasn’t as spelled out in the main book, but this is a great starting place to understand the Bohr a little better. I felt the picture painted of them here in this novella was more striking and clearer than in Ringlander; I’m not one for making my own images of characters, and I do prefer when it is given to me. So, this increased my enjoyment overall and I think when I reread book 1, it’ll sit a lot better. I’m known to miss stuff though, so that might just be a me point.
I would have liked to see more of Laeb’s tactical prowess – we heard a lot about this battle in the main series, and I thought it would be some of his genius that shone through the passage, but my expectations were subverted when we got more Forbringr action. Though, I can’t really complain about that. I’d never have guessed how this battle was decided from the events of book one, so that might be a bonus point.
Overall, it’s a great little story that paints a clearer picture of some events and characters from book 1, Jackson’s writing really does carry this with its clear and concise telling, and easily readable prose. I feel like this is going to be a series that I’ll certainly stick with.
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