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If you like your fantasy big, fun, crude, and macho, this is the book for you. And even if you think you don't, I'd recommend you give it a try anyway - The Grey Bastards is an outrageously entertaining romp, full of larger than life characters, amazing battle scenes, intrigue and advanture up to the ears. Gritty, hilarious, violent, sexy and - most of all - FUN. - Rebecca (QBD)
Guest, 20/04/2020
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As a writer myself, I get a bit jealous of debut authors writing a cracking read, first up. And Jonathan French has just made that list.
The Grey Bastards is a rough, at times brutal, fantasy told from the point of view of half-orcs, outcasts from human society and battling in the border lands against incursions of orcs and crazed centaurs (who are anything but the wise creature of classical mythology).
One of the things I particularly liked was the way that French was able to introduce a new world, society and concepts with only a minimum of exposition. Instead he weaves it easily into dialogue and action – classic showing rather than telling.
Fans of Joe Abercombie's earlier works will definitely enjoy The Grey Bastards by Jonathan French. - Ross (QBD)
Guest, 16/07/2018
