Night of Blood: The Minotaur Wars, Book 1: Vol 1

His most recent works include Day of the Dragon and Legacy of Blood , based on the popular computer games Warcraft and Diablo. Knaak lives in Arkansas. Would you like to tell us about a lower price? If you are a seller for this product, would you like to suggest updates through seller support?

This direct follow-up to the recent best-selling War of Souls trilogy deals with the minotaurs, a species with which the author is particularly associated in the minds of Dragonlance fans. This series will move the minotaur species to the forefront of the Dragonlance world, and since this is the first hardcover title that deals directly with the world-changing fallout at the end of the War of Souls, it is both a key title for Dragonlance fans and an excellent entry point for new readers.

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I love the Dragonlance world and loved Kaz the Minotaur. But I just could not get into this book. This book in particular, with its snarling bovines on the cover wielding a Night of Blood "Don't kid yourself, Jimmy. This book in particular, with its snarling bovines on the cover wielding axes and set against a fiery background, is the literary version of a slasher film. There is a basic plot in here, even if it is just setting up the plot of the other two books in this trilogy, but the real main point of the book is "look at all of these entertaining deaths" and watch as pretty much every named character dies either in some spectacularly gory fashion or through some elaborate Final Destination punishment involving the controlled spirits of the damned.

But with minotaurs, I guess. So your targets are all cow people with horns. Plot goes as such: There's a corrupt emperor who let the empire fall into debauchery and decay. A general, named Hotak, leads a coup and slaughters most of the heads of state in one night a night of blood if you will and establishes himself as emperor. The writing tries to portray the new emperor as some complex shade of grey - being all "Hey maybe Hotak is a cool dude despite the killing since he's getting rid of this guy and all" - but since his wife is a corrupt head of a church and is also a necromancer that's using ghosts to murder people long-distance, you realize "oh right, this guy is probably the bad guy".

Oh, but don't worry, readers! Some nephew of the old emperor named Faros escaped the massacre because he conveniently chose that day to get drunk and gamble, so he's our main protagonist and he will definitely take down these bad guys in Book 3 maybe sorta. That's usually how these Dragonlance trilogies work after all. And, since it's Book 1, Faros spends most of the book stuck in a mine somewhere in the classic "hero gets enslaved and forced to work in some mines for several months, which will basically burn all of the body fat and make him all muscular and heroic" plot while we watch yet more heads of state and merchants get murdered.

In addition to Faros, there is also Rahm, who is a general of the previous emperor and commander of a ship and of a motley crew of fellow minotaurs trying to start a rebellion. I feel that, in a way, Rahm is the true hero of the novel - and probably should've been the hero considering the other choice is Faros - and even has a magical artifact that saves him from being killed by ghosts.

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Without giving too much away, don't root for anyone who isn't named Faros or Rahm, because anyone else is probably going to end up dead. The somewhat more competent servant of Faros who saves his life a couple times? A really cool pirate minotaur with tattoos and a fun accent? The really cool gladiator fighter who single-handedly beats all odds and fights both six armed guards and a two-headed manticore beast and gets 12 pages dedicated just to how good of a fighter he is?

Dies from his wounds, whoops. She literally appears in a chapter just to die of mysterious circumstances. This book is a bloodbath and depending on your state of mind, you're either going to find this entertaining or wish that the plot would just get on with it. I myself was kinda on the fence with it because while some of the deaths are really cool and include some really interesting magical spells, they don't really tell you much other than "Hotak is a bad dude" or "Hotak's wife who commands the dead is a bad dude".

I, personally, had enough fun with it to continue reading to the second part of this trilogy. Perhaps this series does get better and this is just one big extended prologue of death and destruction, but for now, I give it three horns up. Oh, and really don't bother with the glossary. It really doesn't help and is just like "this named character is from this clan". Cow is a racial slur. The gold, emerald, and ruby golem is able to breathe rotting corpse smell and terrifies this merchant so badly that he's rendered in a catatonic stupor for the rest of his life, basically "killing" him.

Sometimes you'd run into a death scene this creative and it made it worth it. So it's a toss-up between "these deaths are cool" and "well I just met this minotaur just to see him die, what a waste". It's bad, but luckily it doesn't crop up much since this book mainly just sets him up as a thing that will be dealt with in a later book. Also I feel like "ogre that rejects basic ogre instincts to appear more human" is something that has appeared in Dragonlance before, but I can't remember where I've seen it. Nov 09, Kayla rated it it was ok Shelves: It's been awhile since I read a Dragonlance book.

Still, even knowing that it's a trilogy and so it won't wrap up at the end, I felt like this book was all over the place. There were so many characters we would follow, some for pages and some for paragraphs at a time. I also had a hard time becoming invested in any of the characters such that I didn't have any real motivation to find out what was going to happen.

There were a handful of good aspects about the story, but not enough to make me wan It's been awhile since I read a Dragonlance book. There were a handful of good aspects about the story, but not enough to make me want to pick up the next book. Finally, a story with the origin of minotaurs, and their first king, Ambeoutin, and their code of honor.

But a coup d'etat changes forever the way of minotaurs. Are they the children of Destiny?

Elsewhere, ogres fighting humans will face the children of destiny Slow, actionless reading, different from an RPG campaign. Weis a Hickman nastavili latu poriadne vysoko. May 10, Gemma Fasheun rated it really liked it.

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I really like reading this book even if took me long time I don't regret it and hopefully soon I'll read the second volume. Mar 11, Marc Colombina rated it liked it. Difficult to provide all the main characters with significant, coherent storylines in a novel of this length. I feel that even the two stars is generous, but somewhere past the halfway point Knaak gives up on awkward insertions of exposition or at least limits them to somewhere near the level of acceptability and lets this abbreviated tale of murder, mayhem, backstabbing, and revenge start to take shape.

Mostly, I blame WoTC for the shape of this book. Perhaps they and Knaak included wanted their own version of the intrigues that provide the backdrop to Frank Herbert's Dune or seems to be the whol I feel that even the two stars is generous, but somewhere past the halfway point Knaak gives up on awkward insertions of exposition or at least limits them to somewhere near the level of acceptability and lets this abbreviated tale of murder, mayhem, backstabbing, and revenge start to take shape.

Perhaps they and Knaak included wanted their own version of the intrigues that provide the backdrop to Frank Herbert's Dune or seems to be the whole of the tale in George R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series. Stackpole's use of similar devices in his BattleTech novels would probably be a better example to measure against, as both as bounded to the game world's from which they sprung.

Where Stackpole managed to develop most of his characters in short order, Knaak seems content to do rough sketches of a few and reinforce them sporadically. This is a book that probably should have been close to pages. It would have allowed for explaining the world and history of the minotaurs through the actions of the characters rather than odd proto-chapters. Likewise, characters could have been developed to the point where the reader would not have to reference the glossary in the back to make sure who the character was. At the same time, a lengthier, more balanced telling of the story would have allowed for a better sense of time and hardship for the characters.

Everything in this version feels rushed an incomplete. There is a workaday story going on, one that is mildly interesting once the distractions are dealt with. Nov 16, Conan Tigard rated it liked it. If you are looking for a fantasy tale strictly about the race of minotaur, then Night of Blood by Richard A. Knaak is the book for you. I did like reading about both Faros and Rahm, but also was at a loss as to whom I was supposed to be voting for.

What I never got out of this book was who the main character was that I was supposed to latch on to. This left me confused for most of the story. Was it good that Chot had been overthrown? After all, he had let the race of minotaurs decline as he live If you are looking for a fantasy tale strictly about the race of minotaur, then Night of Blood by Richard A. After all, he had let the race of minotaurs decline as he lived his life of luxury. If Faros is the main character, why isn't more of the story about him?

As for General Rahn, who I also liked, is he the main character? After finishing the book, I still am not sure. The book starts off with the bloody night that ends Chot's rule, then moves along rather slowly until the last 70 or so pages, when the action finally picks up. Night of Blood would appear to be a builder for what is to follow in The Minotaur Wars series. I only hope that the story focuses a little more on the main characters and gives the reader someone to cling on to.

I do look forward to seeing what happens in the next book, Tides of Blood. The basic story was good, rebels striving to overthrow an evil dictatorship, but the book is let down by weak characters and some poor plot points.

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Firstly none of the characters have strong personalities, most in fact are weak and uninteresting. Because of this you don't care what happens to them and harms the book overall. Another problem is the huge amount of killing, okay so it is a book of minotaurs, but too many times a character is introduced only to killed a couple of pages later.

This ma The basic story was good, rebels striving to overthrow an evil dictatorship, but the book is let down by weak characters and some poor plot points. This makes you not want to get invested in any character that is introduced because you don't know how long they will last. Also most of these killings have little to do with the story. In some ways the evil characters act in a better way than the good ones. The evil ones only kill those who are strongly plotting against them, the good ones will quite happily kill prisoners and opponents who down and saying "I yield", this makes the good characters less likeable.

There are a couple of plot twists but I didn't find any of them surprising. Overall this was an interesting story let down by characters without personalities and over use of meaningless killings. Jun 27, Lana rated it it was amazing. The start to the minotaur wars is brought about by the coup staged by hotak and his priestess wife on the previous emperor!!

Some who were caught were sent as slaves to work the cruel mines, but a revolt got most of these k The start to the minotaur wars is brought about by the coup staged by hotak and his priestess wife on the previous emperor!! Some who were caught were sent as slaves to work the cruel mines, but a revolt got most of these killed except for one a young noble nephew to the previous emperor who had seen all his family wiped out and needed vengeance! Jul 24, Tabitha Tomala rated it did not like it.

This book just dragged. I normally love all the Dragonlance books minus Murder is Tarsis , but I cannot for the life of me connect with any of the characters. The scene with the ogres when all they did was talk ogre, um hello! That enter chapter was a waste. Not to mention the following scene with them chapters later where they talk about some agreement and never tell the read what the agreement is!

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There are way too many scenes of what Nephera's undead can do, really we don' This book just dragged. There are way too many scenes of what Nephera's undead can do, really we don't need a hundred pages of filler detailing ever last traitors death. Give a few examples of her power and be done with it. The three main story lines don't even have enough detail! The group in the mines you barely hear about and I found I enjoyed them the most.

I will attempt book two but if its a flop I won't bother with the third. Jan 30, Jim C rated it liked it. A book set in the world of Dragonlance. This book explores the realm of minotaurs. General Hotok stages a coup with aid from his wife and this book explores his attempt to stay in power. I liked this book but it didn't blow me away.