The Hollow March (The Haunted Shadows Book 1)

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Send us a new image. Is this product missing categories? Checkout Your Cart Price. As religious fervor stirs dissent among the people, and the winter winds loom, thousands gather behind their aging emperor on a march to war. In the midst of this, young Rurik Matair blunders home with childish notions of revenge, and an unlikely band of sellswords at his back. The third son of a backwater nobleman, Rurik was destined for a life in service to the crown.

But when he reached beyond his station, he was banished from his father's house with nothing to his name. Tired and hunted, he returns after two years abroad.

The Hollow March by Chris Galford book review

Yet all is not as it appears. As Idasia's brutal war threatens to stagnate, old rivalries rekindle. As religious fervour stirs dissent among the people, and the winter winds loom, thousands gather behind their aging emperor on a march to war. In the midst of this, young Rurik Matair blunders home with childish notions of revenge, and an unlikely band of sellswords at his back. The third son of a backwater nobleman, Rurik was destined for a life in service to the crown.

Tired and hunted, he returns after two years abroad. Yet all is not as it appears. Other players shift through dark games behind the scenes, and old magicks rise against a tottering throne, stirred on by a woman with nothing left….

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The book started with this proverb, which made me immediately like it. It was all I could do to meet my own deadlines, because every time I went in to read a few pages of this work, I wanted to read more. This is a well-written book, with the added boon of very few typos.

Here is a passage to illustrate this:. Most of the Empire was not like the Ulneberg. However, this land suffered from a curious benefit: As the Empire pressed its manifest borders to north and south and west, the continual prospect of war had left this section of the Ulneberg largely untouched.

The problem was the Kingdom of Surin to the east, a nation once lofty, now reduced to poverty and ruin. I do caution that it takes a while for this book to get going, after the initial thrill of the prologue. Most of this first section is background on the main characters and information on their relationships to one another.

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There are also long lapses in the action of the book where flashbacks tell more background, and past events. I liked Essa and Voren. The scene of Ros and Fallit was particularly moving.

At pages, this book is long. I think there are several passages that could have been cut from it or shortened, to make the action flow a little more smoothly and be more understandable. But compared with other fantasy books, this is in keeping with the genre.

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