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Oath of Vengeance

Scion's Journey, Book 1

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Oath of Vengeance

By: Dave Willmarth
Narrated by: Jessica Threet, Eric Jason Martin
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Finn was living a good life as a blacksmith's apprentice, training hard to earn the right to become one of the Kingsguard, the elite force of one hundred knights that serve and protect the King.

He worked hard, trained hard, and often got into trouble with his best friend, Prince Galen. The two of them had been almost inseparable since they were toddlers. For Finn, life couldn't be better.

Until a force of assassins and mercenaries attacked the palace! Prince Galen and the entire royal family were murdered, along with Finn's father, the Captain of the palace guard, and his mentor, the Master Smith. One or more of the high noble families has lost patience and made their play for the throne.

Finn is forced to flee the palace, ushered to a place of safety by a loyal retainer of the royal family named MacKenzie, a dwarf who has served in the palace for nearly three hundred years. Vowing to return and wreak vengeance on those responsible for the deaths of his friends and family, Finn steps through a doorway to find himself in an entirely new world. One where magic is real, monsters of myth and legend roam the forests, and an omnipresent Guardian watches over everything he does.

Narrated in duet style.

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To explain this story is very much low tension. It did a great job showing off the main character's relationship with the royal family, but as soon as he entered the new world everything from before was mostly forgotten. There was no big moment of sadness and grief about everyone who died. No anger and drive to push on as quickly as possible putting himself at risk in the process. Instead, he just kind of quietly grows stronger in a small town that has basically no risks to him. He has no enemies who could actually find him and as far as he's concerned can quietly grow in strength. This was a bit disappointing, but i was willing to engage with the more casual story, near the end where the man responsible for the death of the king or simply assassinated by the kings dwarf friend. There are other nobles who were in on it but I feel like the revenge has basically been robbed and given that you can take magic from the magic world and use it in the non magic world defeating the nobles who were part of the coup is not going to be very satisfying which ignores the fact that the main character cannot kill the man who orchestrated everything. I don't want to be too harsh to the author his writing style is decent but he just refuses to challenge his protagonist and it shows.




Honestly i'm disappointed.

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fun and something different in the genre a true gem by a small author, fin a young man has destiny thrust upon him into another world to get stronger and weak vengeance against those that killed his family.

Great narated story

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