The War Hounds -- GrimDark Post Apocalyptic LitRPG -- Book 1 of the Dream
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My new series...woot......you can find my first series Blood Brothers on Amazon...five books out for it....that will be a nine book series...This will be a six book series..
JD
BOOK 1 HAS ENDED IT'S JOURNEY. IT WILL BE UP FOR FIVE DAYS FOR PEOPLE TO READ THEN WILL BE TAKEN DOWN FOR AMAZON AND KU. BOOK 2 -- YORK HAS ENDED AND WILL BE UP FOR ONE MORE WEEK AS I EDIT AND GET IT FORMATTED THEN TO AMAZON IT GOES.....WILL THEN START BOOK 1 OF A NEW SERIES WHICH WILL BE HERE ON RR. EMBERS & ASH....A GRIMDARK SUPERHERO LITRPG WHICH I WILL BE SUBMITTING TO ACTUAL PUBLISHERS THEN I WILL BE ROTATING BETWEEN MY 3 SERIES.....
GrimDark LitRPG Sci-Fi Supernatural Post Apocalyptic -- Book 1 of the Dream
A world that was devastated by the Great War which not only turned a large part of it into irradiated wastelands but also broke open the sky into a northern lights kaleidoscope that brought a system, abilities, stages of power and oh yes, demons. It was called the Dream. It also brought an advancement that melded magic and tech and the Lanterns, a trained force to keep the demons in check...2000 years later an alpha predator of the human race, the Archon, chooses to merge with a demon lord which leads to the Fall, the ending of humanity's supremacy and the beginning of one where demon/human hybrids are the apex. The Lanterns try to fight back but are utterly crushed.
Twenty years after the Fall humanity hides and survives, the Lanterns mostly dead and gone. Can one of the last Battle Squads of the Lanterns, The War Hounds, do anything in a world that has been taken over by demon/human hybrids? Do they want to?
Excerpt from The War Hounds
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A man knelt in a lotus position, rain splattering off his unmoving form. Even sitting, his height and presence bell toned impressive to the ethers of being. He wore an advanced looking set of armor with a thick dark trench coat shading its frame. Two symbols could be seen etched upon the armor, one depicting some kind of thick bodied hound, teeth bared in aggression, the other, a lantern shining bright against the night. His head was covered in a helmet with a mirror like full face plate that left nothing exposed and reflected the Dream above and the ruins below.
He stayed silent to the thunder echoing in the distance, like a statue in forever inclination to immovability. It lasted for breath after breath, time, an adversary to fruition of sentiment and sediment, until a voice, modulated by some mechanism in the helmet, crawled through the air in definitive action, a call to herald tombs upon the horizon.
“We are needed.”"
Another excerpt from the War Hounds
The threads of a thousand wills are being woven into the mesh of tick tocking clocks a half second from implosion or at the very least striking a monumentous moment in the paradigm of paradise.As the war of attrition sends fangs and claws to the last vestiges of hope and the remnants of humanity becomes an ever downward spiral of countdowns and meltdowns, extinction twists to the forefront as the finishing tag to the carousal. Prayers become a diminishing salvage to what’s left in the tanks of survivors chewing cardboard and huddling close as skin to the shift of storms.
A perspective to provincial crossroads, dime store novels at nickle discounts. People hold fingertips, stretched to tearing tendons, at the lips of a fall, to the thin divide between survival and the self perpetual head nod to the Long Night, tantalizingly close, a nectar grasp at meeting its spectral eyes on their own feet, their own providence, a sugar plum of circumstance to no choice at all. The calypso of this ironic twist hop scotch squared to the held breath and laughing reality of freedom casting peepers on options that felt like a short cut versus a long burn.
Strange queries in strange times. Wicked witches of western fables flip candy, crestfallen, to a gaggle of kids with sweet teeth, a honey rush that brings rot in slow enveloping curves. Conflict sows the fear of anything over nothing, meat for demons to string to more heartache and loss. The edge becomes ever more alluring, one step, the dark and that could be all she wrote or a long drawn out ballad with only the slimmest of margins to the happy happy. Flip a silver and spit at the moon. Shit is rolling downhill at a hard tilt.
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- 2023
- Author
- JD GLASSCOCK
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Community Reviews(7)
- jaclieboy76767Royal Road★★★★★ 5.0I never come on this place but I love this author. I read all his first series Blood Brothers. So good. I see promotion on Facebook for this. I excited. I got to work but read prologue. Excited. I think will be better then first series. Sorry, English I working on. Will read other chapters when I get home. Love love love
- nathanv70Royal Road★★★★★ 5.0the prologue is a bit more tell, setting a fair outline for the story. The first two real chapters are fairly promising. This author does a good job of world building while also bringing the characters to life. I plan on reading more and coming back as the story progresses
- K.A.ORoyal Road★★★★★ 5.0As a fan of the Author's work I jumped at the chance to start this new novel. I'm not very far in yet, but it's shaping up to be another good read. So far I'm loving the premise, and can't wait to read more. Finding out where this story goes is something I am greatly looking forward to. I will update the review as I read more. Already really digging the whole demon merging with humans premise, it is quite intriguing.
- CT JohnsonRoyal Road★★★★★ 5.05 chapters in and really liking the story and setting.
The autbor laya out all the needed information right away in the prologue which helps you to understand the world moving forward.
It's dark as promised but also with a deep world building that brings you into the characters.
It's very well done and has got me interested in reading more. Definitely earned my follow. - Shrike LawRoyal Road★★★★★ 4.5The descriptions are great, they paint a vivid image of characters and environments. There are certain stories were fewer descriptions are better but in this case, the descriptions make for a more enjoyable experience.
The writing is very poetic at times which aids in giving the story a more bittersweet and philosophical atmosphere which really helps with its immersion although I feel some of its deeper meanings are lost on many readers including me. Nitpicking a bit but there were some moments where there was a more-than-comfortable amount of information, it wasn’t an issue the more I read since certain elements are reintroduced.
Overall, the story is very interesting and immersive, The plot is thickening and the tension is high, It was hard to stop reading but as for cons aside from maybe adding some commas there weren’t any noticeable ones. - ajcernaRoyal Road★★★★ 4.0The story so far has a great hook and some iconic imagery. There is an ambience to it that is very intriguing, and a world worth exploring.
I do think there is a bit of room for improvement. The imagery, while beautiful can be a bit overwhelming, and I think the author could benefit by paring it down so there are fewer things to focus on at any given time. Additionally, the world is incredibly well realized, but I worry there is too much lore being spent in offhanded comments from the narrator that can better be revealed in action as the plot continues.
Still, an intriguing story! Hope the author keeps it up! - Conrad StokesRoyal Road★★★★ 4.0Disclaimer: this review is for a review/comment swap with the author. I have read just over 10,300 words.
As my review title states, I have mixed feelings on this work. On the one hand there is some excellent prose that I will study and appreciate later for the smooth way that it flows. On the other is a story telling style that I am not a fan of.
The author elaborated on our difference in taste in a comment reply to me in the prologue, so I appreciate his open communication. Yet between the sudden dousing of 1000 years of history dumped in a few paragraphs and the way that characters have a propensity to continue the trend of expositing in their thoughts, this is a little bit of a turn off.
In short, this author has a style that varies from head banging good prose to clunky exposition, a story that drained quite a bit of its capital with the prologue, and characters that I have nothing too bad to say about, but nothing to rave about either. Grammar was not a big issue too.
The content of this story is as advertised and does have a lot of battle scenes (at least in the first 10,000 words). If you like that sort of thing, then you may like this story. There's also some profanity, but it's sparse.