The Nameless Dwarf: The Complete Chronicles (Original Novellas 1-5) by Derek Prior

The Nameless Dwarf: The Complete Chronicles (Original Novellas 1-5) Reviews

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  Ralph Trickey

  Good story
  
  Previously published as the nameless dwarf the complete chronicles. This is actually part 3 of the Legends of the Nameless Dwarf. Audible still has it as Nameless Dwarf The Complete Chronicles, but they link together just fine.
  
  I enjoyed it. Nameless is a dwarf that did a deed so evil they took his name away and kicked him out. The story is action heavy but if you are looking for something like that it's enjoyable. The complete series is more interesting to me. This is very readable as a stand alone book.
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  Angela

  30 November 2015:
  $5.99 on Kindle
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  R.A. Flannagan

  I love dwarves. Gimli, Flint Fireforge, Hendel and others. So I was excited about a world that would feature this under-utilized epic fantasy race. Alas, I was disappointed by this story. Everything is only two inches deep. The character development, the world building and the overall plot. All of it lacks depth. The absence of these critical elements resulted in me not caring about the characters, the city the lived in and their plight. In fact, as I sit here and write this review, I'm not exactly sure what the plot of the book was. As a result, I'm putting off listening to the rest of the books. I might revisit them at a later time.
  
  I will say this about the book. I liked the writing style and prose and the narrator was solid. He did the Scottish accent quite well.
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  Tammy Bulcao

  This wasn’t the story for me!
  
  This book/series was very different and difficult for me to enjoy. The narration was absolutely fantastic and his accents were wonderful that’s one reason I was able to push through. I’m not saying this series was written bad, I just couldn’t get into it.
  
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  Ernie Hemingway

  Kept me engaged but not addicted.
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  Joe

  This book had some really good parts and had some funny parts.
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  Derek Prior

  The dwarves have gone!
  
  Thousands have been slaughtered in the blood-drenched streets of their ravine city by one of their own wielding a demonic axe.
  
  The survivors have fled beyond the mountains, heading into a realm haunted by the nightmares of a twisted god.
  
  When Nils Fargin, son of an underworld boss, is hired to find them, he travels with his client to seek the advice of a lowlife mage. With what he learns, he should have asked for more money.
  
  The trail leads them to the domain of the terrifying Ant-Man, who is rumored to eat the flesh of anyone refusing to pay his toll.
  
  And as if that wasn’t enough, it turns out Nils’s client is none other than the Nameless Dwarf, better known to his kind as the Ravine Butcher.
  
  
  
  The Nameless Dwarf is an epic tale of remorse and redemption that pits a whiskerless thief, a guilt-driven assassin, a consumptive wizard, and an amnesiac dwarf against the worst imaginings of a craven mind.
  
  But the companions bring troubles of their own, not least of which is an ancient grimoire that leads them inexorably towards a forest of tar and an evil that threatens the existence of an entire race.
  
  The last hope of the dwarves comes from the unlikeliest of sources: a mythical city beneath the waves, an axe from the age of heroes, and the Nameless Dwarf, in whose veins flows the blood of legends.
  
  
  
  The Nameless Dwarf: The Complete Chronicles contains all five books of the Chronicles of the Nameless Dwarf, fully revised and including all the original covers and a stunning map of Aethir.
  
  Priced individually, these books cost:
  
  The Ant-Man of Malfen - $0.99
  The Axe of the Dwarf Lords - $2.99
  The Scout and the Serpent - $2.99
  The Ebon Staff - $2.99
  Bane of the Liche Lord - $3.99
  
  By buying The Nameless Dwarf you get all 5 books for $5.99, which represents a saving of $7.96
  
  
  Background:
  
  
  It was against the laws of the dwarves to act in the world beyond their city, to study the old texts, or to enter the underworld—and with good reason. The deceptions of the Demiurgos, Father of the Abyss, are everywhere, and once before they brought betrayal and death on a scale that must never be repeated.
  
  When they are accosted by one of their own with a demonic axe found on the brink of the Abyss, drastic measures are needed. The link between axe and wielder is broken by a helm of scarolite, and the lawbreaker is held in stasis in the bowels of the Ravine City, Arx Gravis. To complete his shame, his name is taken from him, permanently removed from history.
  
  When this Nameless Dwarf is awakened by the voice of the knight, Deacon Shader, he becomes embroiled in the battles against the unweaving of all creation by the technocrat, Sektis Gandaw. He later partakes in a quest to find three artifacts with which to shatter the lingering power of the black axe and free himself from the scarolite helm. Too late, it is revealed as a trap laid by the Demiurgos and his spawn, the homunculi, and the Nameless Dwarf returns to Arx Gravis as a brutal dictator, slaughtering his kin by the thousands.
  
  Finally, his tyrannical rule is brought to an end by his closest friend, the assassin Shadrak the Unseen. With the axe destroyed and the scarolite helm broken, the Nameless Dwarf realizes the magnitude of his atrocities. A mere few hundred dwarves have survived his reign of terror, and they have fled Arx Gravis in fear of what he might do next.
  
  Hearing rumors that they have headed into the nightmare land of Qlippoth, where they will surely face extinction, the Nameless Dwarf hires the son of a New Jerusalem guild boss to help him find them.
  
  What reviewers are saying:
  
  "... so excellent, so Fafhrd and the Mouser type good - you remember those stories by Fritz Lieber, that you have to read at least three of these Nameless Dwarf stories to appreciate how absolutely fantastic they are." - Pinky Mo
  
  "... it just doesn't get any better that this." - Ray Nicholson
  
  "D.P. has established a fan for life in me" - Scott Poe
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  Erth

  Bravo! A good fast read! now i am hooked. This was such a great, easy and creative book. i was hooked after the first page.
  
  The characters were easy to fall in love with and follow, along with the story. the author made the mental visions so easy and vivid of the surroundings and the characters actions felt so real.
  
  i would highly recommend this author and this book.
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  wanda olson

  Interesting but not engrossing
  
  There were times I wasn't sure I was going to finish this book, but I plodded on. I found Mr. Prior's writing style colorful ("a gut full of eels") and descriptive, and while mildly entertaining, I thought it fell short of that spark that pulls one into the story. For heroes, they did a lot of puking and "shite"ing and pants pissing. Even the suspenseful parts that could have kept you riveted and turning pages, just seemed to flatline.
  The randomness with which some events happened...where did Silas come from and why did he just tag along with this group? And Ilesa..why did she hang around, and I say that loosely, because she was missing for a good part of the story.
  The sun's and moons were talked about often, as well as the cynocephalus, but I didn't really see their importance in the story.
  
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  Richard

  Great read and I will be reading more by this author. Just enough off the standard plot line to keep the interest there to see what happens next.
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  John

  I have so many other books I am looking forward to reading, stopped this one a third or so in. This book is a deus-ex-machina extravaganza. The author doesn't need to plan anything because some magic will happen and tidy everything up every single time in every single tight situation.
  I was embarrassed for the author.
  BUT if this was meant to be a kids book then I take it all back. I can see me as a youngster devouring this book and screaming for more.