Blackthorne by Clayton Snyder
Bugs,
Ghosts & Mercenaries
An Indie Book Review by Joseph Poopinski
4
stars
This
book was way above the curve in many ways, especially with wry zingers: “Good fight… we’ll call it a draw,” said our
hero Mattias Temple after being roundly beaten by an opponent’s fists. Against the backdrop of a dystopian world at
war, they’ve rather creatively engineered bug-cars, gigantic bug-buildings,
bug-armour, bug-weapons, etc. With those
necromancers & witches came ghosts & magical horrors (featuring obligatory
tentacles, claws, poison, etc.). Then
Blackthorne also deserved props for the cyber/Matrix/hacker portions (my
favorite parts) of this wild Black Opsy adventure. Would I suggest fewer F-bombs? Probably, however, it’s not a children’s
story & cursing devotees will appreciate a couple of doozies balancing the
equation. All the action & combat
overwhelmed whatever personalization elements cropped up but neither the
accelerating pace nor the surprise-after-surprise-after-other-surprises plot
ever let up.
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