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Thraxas and the Oracle: Thraxas Book Ten
Thraxas and the Oracle: Thraxas Book Ten
Thraxas and the Oracle: Thraxas Book Ten
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Thraxas and the Oracle: Thraxas Book Ten

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Thraxas, private investigator, lives in the poor part of town, with a barbarian for a landlord, and a female ex-gladiator to help him when the fighting gets rough. This is the tenth book in the Thraxas series.
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PublisherBookBaby
Release dateJan 23, 2015
ISBN9781483549187
Thraxas and the Oracle: Thraxas Book Ten
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Martin Scott

Martin was born and raised in Berwick-upon-Tweed in Northumberland. He spent many years as a grassroots football and goalkeeping coach, volunteering with young children whilst working full-time in the sports and leisure industry. Having a stammer himself Martin knows first-hand how this can impact a coach which has inspired this story. Martin currently lives in Gateshead in the north of England with his wife Clare and their daughter, Jemima.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    As a longstanding fan, I bought this when it came out (Martin Scott sent me an LT heads-up, no less) but have been saving it for the right occasion. That finally came round today, and I wasn't disappointed.In Thraxas and the Ice Dragon, Scott used the opportunity of a new setting to shake up the cast and their interactions, reinvigorating a series that had been gently drifting towards a rut (simply because it's a genre series with a recurring cast). This time, Thraxas is marching to war, and that means another shakeup. The story shifts its focus away from investigation per se, with less gritty detective work and more intrigue. The political side of the war is a significant theme, and we have some nice worldbuilding in the form of the Oracles, and their unexpected relationship with the Sorcerers.Once again, the change in scene affects Thraxas himself. He's always been a capable (if erratic) investigator, and his skill with a sword was never in doubt, but now we really get to see Thraxas the soldier for the first time. He casually exhibits considerable military acumen, and far greater discipline than you might ever have expected from him - he even moderates his drinking significantly. Though still confrontational and a bit of an oaf at times, he reigns it in significantly, and avoids the kind of diplomatic uproar he usually seems to relish. Despite these changes, I found it all believable - a man who's got used to crashing around as an investigator, but instinctively sinks back into a more professional mindset when actual war is at hand. As an investigator, he often ended up with Pyrrhic victories or somehow embarrassed by events. Here, Thraxas proves his mettle time and again, and finally manages to bring about a personal triumph in the face of great difficulty.Another shift in cast doesn't do any harm either. A couple of old minor characters turn up again, offering a mixture of light relief and character development in their interactions with the main cast. Towards the end, we also see some interesting developments between the main cast, which threatens stormy waters ahead (although it depends whether Thraxas' moral qualms win out over his desire for an easy life). I rather hope so, as I'd be very interested to see how that falls out, and Thraxas has certainly played the crusader before now.Despite the focus on the war and some specific events, there's a strong central mystery running through the book, and its sheer stubornness helps ratchet up the tension - the fact that Scott cheerfully had Turai overrun by orcs means it's not at all clear which way events will fall out this time either. The explanation, when it comes, I found a satisfying twist; it's build on some solid foreshadowing but I hadn't put the pieces together until Thraxas explains it, even though they were there to see.I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and recommend it to anyone who's enjoyed others in the series, readers of fairly light-hearted fantasy, or anyone who needs cheering up.For form's sake, I'll note that there were a small number of minor typos I spotted. A couple were simple word substitutions (than > that and so on), most were missing line breaks. I don't know whether the latter originated in the book itself, or in the way my Kobo displays them. They didn't cause any problems for me.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    If you've not read Thraxas before, start with the first. If you've read this far, you know what to expect. IMO, this is a lesser book--not a gripping storyline, no new terribly interesting characters, an unsatisfying resolution. Nonetheless it's not a complete disaster--it's a decent read with people I'm used to and like, and I'll be all over Thraxas 11 when and if it happens.

    (Note: 5 stars = rare and amazing, 4 = quite good book, 3 = a decent read, 2 = disappointing, 1 = awful, just awful. There are a lot of 4s and 3s in the world!)

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