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The Maleficent Seven

By: Cameron Johnston
Narrated by: George Weightman
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When you are all out of heroes, all that's left are the villains.

Black Herran was a dread demonologist, and the most ruthless general in all Essoran. She assembled the six most fearsome warriors to captain her armies: a necromancer, a vampire lord, a demigod, an orcish warleader, a pirate queen, and a twisted alchemist. Together, they brought the whole continent to its knees.... Until the day she abandoned her army, on the eve of total victory.

Forty years later, she must bring her former captains back together for one final stand, in the small town of Tarnbrooke - the last bastion against a fanatical new enemy tearing through the land, intent on finishing the job Black Herran started years before.

Seven bloodthirsty monsters. One town. Their last hope.

©2021 Cameron Johnston (P)2021 Angry Robot Action & Adventure Dark Fantasy Epic Epic Fantasy Fantasy Fiction Scary

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It’s a good story and some interesting and some hilarious characters. There are some within there I’d like to read more of if Cameron Johnston is going to write more within this world but it works well as a stand-alone.

I enjoyed reading this book rather than listening as I found the narrator overacted it somewhat, which was a real shame.

Fun

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I’m no longer a big fan of fantasy, but I took a punt on this and was not disappointed. Some good characters and gritty writing made it most enjoyable. Some of the plot twists were unexpected but a few were predictable, as were some of the characters. Overall an enjoyable read, made more so by being a standalone story, so no waiting around for more parts.

Pleasing find

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The Maleficent Seven by Cameron Johnston.

Bloody hell, that was an absolutely blood-soaked and visceral grimdark masterpiece, The Maleficent Seven by Cameron Johnston is a standalone novel drenched in humour, violence, descriptively gorey, and a action packed roller coaster of ride. A very well written story and excellent take of an old tale. Cameron Johnston creates amazing dark worlds and brilliantly morally grey characters that you can't help but love even though they are bastards. What happens when you throw a Demonologist, necromancer, vampire Lord, a demigod, an orcish war leader, a pirate queen, and an insane alchemist into the mix and mix them altogether, you get absolutely bloody anarchy. In The Maleficent Seven, Black Herran is dreaded across all Essoran and one of the most ruthless Generals in the whole continent has put together six most fearsome warriors to captain her armies to bring down the Royal line once and for all. On the eve of total victory, she deserts them and her armies, and they turn on each other. Fast forward forty years later, there is a new power on the rise, bringing death across Essoran. Black Herran will call again to her once captains to help deal with the threat. With a chance to settle old scores, they gladly except. A brilliant tale and plot of vengeance, backstabbing, plenty of twists, and turns to keep you mesmerised from start to finish. A fantastic mix of fantasy tropes all bundle in together for all fantasy lovers out there. I very highly recommend.....😁🖤👹💀🧟🧛‍♂️

Grimdark Excellency.

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Great performance and an engaging, visceral story.

A little slow to start, but I found myself completely drawn in by the mid point.

A handful of huge reveals are dropped a little too casually and one of the seven adheres far too closely to stereotype (making his POV chapter a drag), but these were minor flaws in an overall extremely enjoyable audiobook.

A very good time with some very bad people

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A really good premise and a really good story and hopefully there will be more tales of these despicable characters (some of whom I quite liked) but please get a different narrator, I am sure he is good at narrating but not a story like this, he was just childish not worthy of them

The bad, the even badder and the ugly

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