| Title | : | Temple of Cocidius: The Complete First Adventure: Book One |
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| ISBN | : | - |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Kindle Edition |
| Number of Pages | : | 500 |
| Publication | : | Published May 18, 2019 |
I'm Tamlir Kynthelig, mercenary. I lost my home, my family was slaughtered, and my kingdom was usurped.
And then things really got bad.
I saved King Mynogin and won the honor of a likely-fatal run through the Temple of Cocidius to gain him its treasure. Trust me when I say this isn't a change in my luck. Gathering the temple's eight artifacts has never been accomplished and a thousand men have perished to its beasts and puzzles.
But I've maybe not been entirely truthful with Mynogin. I'm armed with two of the most powerful a secret, and an ace up my sleeve. With help from the mythical women who inhabit the mad god's temple, I may just turn the tables on Mynogin and the Oryllix - a pair of creatures with a terrifying, insatiable appetite for destruction.
Eight dungeons, a thousand corpses before me, and a bevy of kickass women fighting by my side. Easy. All in a day's work. What could go wrong?
Temple of Cocidius is not for readers who have an aversion to intense depictions of blood, gore, and daring men getting down with beautiful monster girls. If you suffer any of these, you should talk with your doctor about whether Cocidius is right for you.
Temple of Cocidius: The Complete First Adventure: Book One Reviews
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The Temple of Cocidius
Wow, I wish I had a thesaurus for all the times I'm going to use the word HOT!
I love stories that go down the path of epic high fantasy. This one is all of that and more! ‘Lord of the Rings,’ ‘Game of Thrones’ and some HOT Hentai style encounters that remind me of Natasha Henstridge from the movie ‘Species’ or sexy demons from the anime ‘Wicked City’ but with more heart and less killing of beautiful women! The hot woman who form the levels of the Temple of Cocidius are all lovely and powerful, as demonstrated over the many addictive chapters. Females that are beautiful creatures and alo literal creatures as described by Maxx. Painted in such vivid detail that I thought I couldn’t love this series anymore as the challenges were piled on and on. Even after finishing reading it, even with the “ending” we got I felt like I had been on such a great journey that I wanted to go on the very same journey, one more time. I bought the books as they were released in their five separate installments but even when the book was released as a complete set, I bought that too because I wanted the set together. It was a tremendously epic tale experienced in parts but the wait would have killed me to get the whole story! Luckily I discovered this series when it was only one shy of it becoming complete! And even with the relatively short wait I was forced to endure, I felt like the waiting I experienced would devour my soul!
We start our story with our hero(?) Is that what he is? We really don’t know him yet! Lir is his name, nonetheless. He is guided to his goal by a soldiers and a duke on the way to the trials to collect “Artifacts.” Artifacts for the “rightful king” who we believe he has been sent by. Trials that will test him beyond is even his imagining! Armed with specialty items gathered in a magic bag of holding, high quality weapons and armor as well as the most powerful weapon of all, vengeance! You can survive a great many things if you are armed with that! It being the most powerful item any warrior can weild! And Lir has it clutched very close to his heart! An item that grants the wielder such unimaginable power that you don’t know what you are capable of until you have wielded the awesome power of REVENGE!
Lir is very sure of himself indeed when entering the Temple. I love his mantra! “That won’t be me!” Every time he comes across a battlefield littered with the corpses of fallen prospects he chants that mantra and moves his piece forward unto the playing board of fate! He is accepted into the trials and is lead to his first test. A test that is so pure and aimed at the sheer biology of men that it wouldn't be strange for the book to end right here. Right at the first gate into the strangest world of escalating challenges that so many players have fallen that you can almost give up hope that any other trial will ever yield to our hero. But this story has many chapters and this is but the first! Encounter Meridiana.
After a test is overcome by the “aspirant” (person having ambitions to achieve something) then bonds with the Artifact and absorbs part of their power then passes to Lir. This leads him from one trial to the next. Now just saying that doesn’t give enough credit to the power and the struggle that Lir is facing from chapter to chapter. And the HOT scenes with Lir and the Artifacts are too sexy for (my) words. Every Artifact is a creature from within other legends. Female, so very feminen but in their own way, as all of them are taken from the pages of other great epics. And what is the way we start down these hot encounters? Meridiana is the first and by far my favorite but for personal reasons as other Artifacts grant great gifts and adventure in the chapters to come. But she was just so special that I was taken by her immediately! She is not like most and I won’t spoil her for you here! Just know that some may entice you in ways you might now have been ready for! Hot! HOT!
But the ACTION! Oh my GOD! There is cutting with swords and claws! There is crushing with fists and force! There is such a level of violence that when I was listening to the Audible of this book and my wife nearby just shot her head into the room and questioned me about what I was listening to. “Is that violence porn?” She asked because just minutes prior she had heard a very sexual scene, also played out loud, and this was told with the same vigor! The violence in this book is OUTSTANDING! I loved the tension in every fight scene that is painted with vivid words on the canvas of my mind! You have to read it for yourself! (But maybe also get the audio book too like I did.)
Please buy this book on Kindle to help promote Maxx, but I also BEG that you get the Audible!!! If you aren’t a regular user of Audible, then I ask that you will sign up, and for your first FREE BOOK with them you select “Temple of Cocidius!” Or just buy is because you get a huge discount if you already own the Kindle version. The talent that Maxx was able to obtain for his audiobook is Soren Gray! This guy’s voice is an amazing and rare talent After having finished this book I immediately searched for other books with his voice because I felt that he had an incredible grasp of fantasy and erotic descriptions. They were Maxx Whittaker’s word but the way that Soren Gray was saying them in his alluring voice was like watching a handsome man dancing with your wife or girlfriend with such skill and eroticism that their elegant movements gave you an iron bar of a hard-on! This was a huge surprise to me because I enjoyed reading this book so much that I never imagined that I might like it even more in another medium. I can only hope that one day someone turn this into a series on Amazon Prime Video! Are you listening Amazon??? I have rambled on for far too long! Don’t delay! Get this Kindle book! Get this Audible book! More are coming! Let’s hope they never end!
Buy it! Read it! Listen to it! Love it!
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Starts amazing! wonders off into obscurity
This review is for the omnibus volume that has all 5 books.
Books one and two are awesome! Four and a half to five stars. Then it starts to drift. The narration and descriptions of events gets vague. As the story goes on it gets harder to tell who's doing what and why.
I get that Maxx Whittaker was trying something stylistic. That as Tamlir grows in power he is losing touch with his humanity and that transition is reflected in the writing. The problem is that as the events in the story get murky, It's harder to follow and then it's harder to care about the characters or the outcome. By the end of book five everyone is shadow boxing in the mist and it was all preordained and "No luke, a dragon was your grandfather" and I just couldn't care less.
In summery; It starts out five star, gets wobbly and ends as a two star. Three stars total because the MC is never a prick or a douche.
