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High Gloom

Bad Guys Series, Book 6

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By: Eric Ugland
Narrated by: Neil Hellegers
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Summary

It all comes down to this: kill or be corpsed. 

Clyde Hatchett has known he's had a corpse-king inside him, slowly trying to take over his body and raise an army of undead for a while now. And while that may seem like a rather, um, urgent matter to attend to, it's only now, after being forced out of Glaton by his best friends and then having to rescue someone's sister from a bad marriage, that he's actually in a place to deal with it. 

And he better deal with it quickly, since his entire left hand is starting to look like it belongs to the Crypt-Keeper. 

But Gloomguard, where the mage Clyde needs lives, operates on a completely different plane than anywhere else in Vuldranni. Everyone is out for themselves, and there's no such thing as doing a favor. So in order to even talk to the mage, Clyde must embark on a series of preposterous quests he doesn't have time for and isn't guaranteed to survive.

©2020 Eric Ugland (P)2021 Tantor Action & Adventure Dark Fantasy Epic Fantasy Fiction
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I don't want to spoil anything, but some of the events in this book made genuinely no sense to me. As someone who loves the Good Guys series and thought the Bad Guys run was solid (even with the rogue getting ambushed or captured practically every other chapter), this one was a real letdown.

It doesn't bring anything new to the table, and worse, it actually strips away a lot of what made the series work. The couch scene was absolutely horrendous, with no real meaning or reason.

I'd read this far into the series before and stopped right here, and coming back to it, I remember exactly why.

The one bright spot: production and narration were really good, as usual.

If you're working through the series, just know this one's a rough patch. Hopefully it picks back up from here.

Honestly… what even was this book?

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I realize making money is nice and all, but this was half a book. It's a theme in Ugland's books that they can end a bit abruptly, but this is the first time i was like "is that it?".

So you remember the end of the last book, right? You know, he got to that new town/fort that has a hole in the ground that he needs to descend? Well in summary, this book is:

"Man-guy continues walking into town, then does the required quest to be allowed into said hole and finally, when in hole, does a little minor exploration. The End". Seriously. Nothing really happens beyond that.

There are of course a few happenings towards the end that i wont spoil, but beyond getting from the front door of the town and into the hole, no real progress is made. Actual exploration / finishing the business in the hole (he has to talk to somebody) is apparently for another book. I just hope that one actually resolves something.

My experience is that I have been reading a web-series and the author just gave up in the middle... or got run over by a bus :-|

I will of course be reading/listening to the next one, but i would appreciate a bit "more".

Despite the overall quality of this series (and its sibling) I can't recommend reading this book until the next one is out as well.

Not a complete book

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