![]() ![]() What really sets Salyards’ writing apart is its charming and eloquent narrative voice, which captures perfectly the difficulties and doubts of an untested chronicler. His new comrades hail from the shadowy Syldoon empire led by Captain Braylar Killcoin, each man in the company comes across as hard-bitten and wholly at ease with violence and death. ![]() The main premise of ‘Scourge’ is that Arki has been hired to chronicle the day-to-day activities of a brutal warband. Our narrator is Arkamondos, an educated yet naïve small-town scribe. ![]() Imagine my surprise and pleasure when I found myself immersed in a gritty, startlingly intimate fantasy one that uses realism and detail to draw in the reader, and maintains the engaging and endearing first person voice of a rather inexperienced and anxious young man. Having found myself regularly entertained by Salyards’ laugh-out-loud Facebook posts I decided it was high time I checked out his fiction. Scourge of the Betrayer spent three years lurking amid the dusty, long-forgotten recesses of my TBR before social media put it back on my radar in 2016. ![]()
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