A Prequel to the Mongoliad , Mark Teppo forges the first link in a chain that leads to the world-shattering events of the Mongoliad series.
Raphael of Acre, a young initiate of the Shield-Brethren, becomes a war hero during a vicious battle for control of a Muslim stronghold. One of his companions, Eptor, is wounded in the battle and falls under the influence of strange hallucinations. Unable to reconcile his roles as Christian and soldier, Raphael seeks out an unlikely source of counsel - Francis of Assisi. When a merchant appears at the Catalonian chapter house of the Shield-Brethren, seeking to hire guards for his caravan, young Andreas is suspicious.
Knights with his martial prowess are above protecting mere cargo wagons. As the caravan approaches, a woman suffering from terrifying visions feverishly paints her latest revelation - in her own blood. The image horrifies her fellow villagers, who fear an imminent attack, or worse, the return of the brutal Inquisition. In the late nineteenth century a mysterious group of English martial arts aficionados provided Sir Richard F. Burton, well-known expert on exotic languages and historical swordsmanship, a collection of long-lost manuscripts to translate.
From Burton's translations and the original source material, the epic tale of The Mongoliad was recreated. In the aftermath of the Mongolian invasion of , beleaguered Christians struggle with the presence of a violent horde and a world turned upside down. Apocalyptic fever sweeps through Europe, infecting even the most rational individuals, leaving all to wonder if they are seeing the end times - or an hour when new heroes will emerge from the ruins of cataclysmic defeat. Why or why not? I recommend this book as a great read, but the Audible narration is over-acted.
How could the performance have been better?
The Mongoliad by Various authors book review
Please, let the characters speak for themselves, they don't need raspy, whispery, or sinister voices. Let the writer speak through the writing. Your job is to be transparent; you get in the way. This is a committee book. Sorry, This book is compromised. It is an epic but it jest doesnt do it for me.. This is a really good story with interesting characters. It gives an insight into what people must have felt when faced with the news that the Mongols were coming.
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I have to take two stars off for the way the story just stops in the middle. It's not really even a cliff hanger, no one climbed a cliff, they were just telling the story and stopped.
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I think marketing is getting in the way of art here. I'll by the second book because I have faith in the writers and like the production but it's not a strong faith. I'll let you know. What disappointed you about The Mongoliad?
The Mongoliad by Various authors
I think anyone who purchased this book should get the next part free, if they want. It didn't come to any conclusion at ALL. I mean did they just run out of paper or was it only suppose to be so many pages long. I'm am used to fantasy names , but this book was extremely hard to follow. Don't waste your time. Has The Mongoliad turned you off from other books in this genre?
I like Luke Daniel's voice but he can't do anything for a bad story to begin with. Is there anything you would change about this book? See my remarks below. I expected much more from this book -- or should it be "project"? How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable? The dialogue was much too 21st century colloquial in far too many places. While I hate deliberately archaic dialogue, I really don't think anyone in the 13th century in Russia would be saying "OK". The ending of the book seemed to be simply "we've run out of ideas for the moment, we'll publish the next one when we think of more things to write".
What did you like about the performance? What did you dislike? The narrator was adequate but not inspired. His flat, rather nasal Midwestern twang sorted oddly with the nationalities of the characters. He also mispronounced a number of fairly basic words. Was The Mongoliad worth the listening time?
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I guess it is if you are a youngish, male, computer gamer who likes stories which are mainly full of gore and dead people. Books written by a committee rarely if ever seem to jell. Raised on Harold Lamb's "March of the Barbarians", which not only told the saga of the Mongolian invasions but caught the atmosphere and flavor of both the Middle Ages and the Far East, this seemed to lack purpose and direction.
Could see it marketed as a "dungeons and dragons" computer game in future. Stevenson is on record as saying that this sort of "interactive" project is the way he thinks books are going to go in the internet age.
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He's better on his own [sometimes; of late he seems to just churn stuff out, alas. Having listened to Conn Iggulden"s books on the subject, I was expecting a good interpretation of the mongol story by other authors, perhaps with a fantasy twist. The research may have been good. But the writing was at best mediocre; there was no actual character development; and the reading was also mediocre.
As a final insult, the book just ended, without polish or attempt to bring it to any conclusion. Maybe there was a planned next in a series; but if so, I will never know. Overall, my recommendation is to read or listen to Iggulden's far superior books and not waste the credit. I bought this because Stephenson was the first listed author, and I like his other work. The setting of this book is foreign to me-perhaps if I had more knowledge of the Mongol Empire I would have found it a better read. Stephenson's participation is difficult to detect, and there is some downright painful writing in here.
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