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Bebarce El-Tayib

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I'm going to miss my character friends.

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 07-20-24

A great culmination to an amazing series. After years I will hate to think that I never get to see my character buddies again, but I also worry that dragging them back out to save the world again would be exhausting. I'm eager to see what the author comes out with next.

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Overall enjoyable with some minor irks

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 08-13-20

I really enjoyed this. The constant stats and flavor text could have been skipped though.

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Performance was excellent

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3 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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2 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 07-18-19

Every moment listening to Nick Offerman is like a precious gem, but multiple stories were kind of hit-or-miss.

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Red Seas Under Red Skies Audiobook By Scott Lynch cover art

One of my favorites

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 09-21-18

Lynch invests so much story into this book, that it feels like it shouldn't be feasible. It's "larger on the inside" as it were and that is a fantastic thing to experience. Dialogue is snappy, storylines are brilliantly unraveled.

There is an argument I heard once (can't remember where) that says if you write about a chair, at some point a character better sit in that chair. Lynch doesn't adhere to these rules. He fills an amphitheater filled with chairs and you only discover later on which one was important. But the rest of the chairs richly populate the setting.

The world of the Gentleman bastards is one I would love to explore in depth, but I am grateful of the author that he doesn't. I don't have the mysterious glow in the fog explained. I don't have the depth of the chasm defined. And in doing so he keeps you suspended in his world, eager to explore and never bored of the results.

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Fun, and explorative, but with not much depth

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4 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 10-05-17

Fun read. Bit too heavy on references. About as much depth as this review has.

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This series and this author are hidden gems.

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 05-11-17

The first cycle takes roughly half a book to get going, but its well worth the wait as soon as the relationship between Andre and Blaze (disregard the names for now, they grow on you) forms. From there on out it is a fantastic series that continually blurs the lines between good and evil. This second series does not fall short by any means, and helps build a world that is truly fascinating. It feels very much like buddycop fantasy, much in the same way as Scott Lynch or Michael Sullivan create with their series. Just the right amount of brutality, without going so far overboard that it feels like he's trying too hard to be edgy.

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3 people found this helpful

Several redeeming qualities, but also many flaws

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2 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars
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2 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 04-27-17

The series more than any other I've read has this reoccurring theme that women secretely enjoy rape and that women enjoy being chased. It tries to balance anti rape sentiment but its just way too much for a series.

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completely underrated

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 04-04-16

I bought the series not expecting much because who gives 3 books for 1 credit. man I was wrong. loved it amd picked up the next in the series!

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Wait for it....

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 02-03-16

Would you listen to Heroes Die again? Why?

Not for a while. Only because I have a huge backlog of reading to do, but yeah I think if I stepped away from it, and picked up another book in the series, I would give it a relisten.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Heroes Die?

Well I don't want to spoil it, so I don't really want to say. But basically after a time your perspective of the characters and storyline changes.

Which scene was your favorite?

The dungeon and the bridge.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

There were a few laughs.

Any additional comments?

So when I first started listening to the book, I started thumbing through my library thinking "alright what can I get to next." I even considered stopping the book short and jumping onto something else. I'm actually really glad that I didn't.

I think it started at the first point in which the protagonist, meets the major "antagonist", that it starts to turn around for me, but that isn't (as far as Audible Chapters are concerned 38 chapters into the story. And really at that point it's only the start of it moving in the direction that really got me liking it. I eventually got hooked.

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