The Troll Hunter

This book starts off in a way that had me start it and then stop it about five different times. It just couldn’t captivate me. Then something happened, I picked the book up again and …couldn’t set it down. Once you start getting a grip on the vast amount of characters (typical for a Blackmore book) it starts to come together. Then the story completely flips and starts to get really good.

The climax of the book seriously lasts about 100 pages out of the 493 total in the book. I read alot. I have read almost all of Keith C Blackmore’s books. When I finished this one I simply said “wow”.

Buy it. Trust me. It is an amazing story a true epic.

One of my absolute favorites by Keith Blackmore! It’s got mystery, betrayal, war, blackmail, feminism AND romance. PLUS a Troll! The characters are well developed and I grew to really care about them. The story flows easily. I usually dislike books that change characters each chapter because inevitably there is a character that is fluff or less developed and I find myself wanting to skip said chapters to get back to the more interesting parts of the story. Not so with The Troll Hunter! I just finished reading it for the 3rd time. Just as entertaining as the first time around! Love ya Keith! Keep them coming!
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Ok I struggled with giving this 3 or 5 stars and settled on 4. Beginning was intriguing, then it blew up into one of the best bloodied scenarios I never saw coming (I’ve read hundreds of fantasy books by the best and least known) first half he book was fantastic. Then it slowed down a lot with slow back story but then the ending was f***ing fantastic with more surprises out of left field. I would give it 5 stars but the character development in the middle got long. Good book though I would recommend whole heartedly.

I really liked this book! I’ve actually never read a book that had a troll in it other than maybe a fairy tale or two, but Blackmore brings this big, ugly creature to life with vividly descriptive writing. However, the troll isn’t even the focal point of the book but rather a part of a fairly intricate story that weaves in-and-out throughout the pages, moving forward and backward in time, until finally all the pieces smash together at the end to create a pretty exciting conclusion. Keith is a great writer and I haven’t read anything of his yet that I wouldn’t give five stars and highly recommend to others to read.

An interesting approach to this book. Rather than starting near the end and flashing back, it starts more near a later part, which you may not necessarily realise until later. A structure you just have to trust, but it draws you in well so you do.

It follows a few characters in a setting of war. A southern kingdom against a horde of barbarian Northerners – or that is all we know about them, as they are just the menace.

The flavour of this is definitely along with Gemmell lines. Large, strong warrior has a colleague who is a stone cold killer and enjoys it a lot – and he is a match for him. Somewhat more grey, though. The two of course are survivors as many aorund them fall.

The Troll Hunter part doesn’t come into it until nearer the end, so is a little misleading. This is no RPG novel or garden variety fantasy. In fact, the only supernatural element at all is the existence of trolls. Other than being a completely different secondary world, of course.

A couple of bits to amuse, too, with a horseman named Prong and a renegade named Klytus.

You know how people say that all the self-published stuff is crappy – well, here’s an example of one that isn’t. This is a class novel.

The nation of the two Cavaliers – Bloor, the strong silent type, and Alwan the killer is being bled dry of its men by the constant warring. This has left a gap for repatriated injured soldiers to step into and start running some organised crime rings with little martial opposition. Thus a complicated scenario arises when you throw in a marriage and said monster.

Will have to see what else he has done.

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