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product_id: 19499480
title: "Blood and Iron (The Book of the Black Earth 1)"
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price: "A$38"
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reviews_count: 14
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# Blood and Iron (The Book of the Black Earth 1)

**Brand:** pyr
**Price:** A$38
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- **What is this?** Blood and Iron (The Book of the Black Earth 1) by pyr
- **How much does it cost?** A$38 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    a New Testament to the fantasy genre
  

*by I***8 on Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2014*

Kudo's to Jon Sprunk. This is my first read by this author and I honestly hope he friends me on Facebook so I can have updates for black earth 2. Sprunk has done an awesome job between description and narrative to present new ideas to a saturated genre.  Negative reviews read as of 7/16 seem to come from pubescent neigh-sayers who think a B- in high school English entitles them to critique someone who obviously went though the effort to publish a well thought out story. A slow start to others was an insight to me about a main character walking into a new culture with a new and unexplained power trying to make sense of a world that wasn't found on Google. This has been the first book in a while that has excited me enough to skip a night of television or a couple hours sleep just to read another chapter.Thank you Jon.David Bressler /oceandave on FB

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Excellent new series begins!
  

*by O***E on Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2015*

There is a significant leap in character development in this new series from Jon Sprunk over the prior.Don't get me wrong, I liked the first trilogy, but I loved this new book.Folks complained that Caim (of Shadow's Trilogy) was too cliche, too powerful, too Aragorn or Rambo-like to be interesting. Now people complain that Horace is too whiny, too fickle, or too weak. Proof you can't please everyone.Personally, I enjoy a protagonist with flaws, even deep, annoying flaws that constantly cause him to make bad decisions. You know, kinda like a real person? Horace is that kind of protagonist. He's not a badass, at all, but his heart is usually in the right place.The magic in this book is extremely interesting as well: a twist on the four elements theme, where casting comes at a painful cost.Antagonists are not blatant machiavellian-monster types. The best kind of antagonists are the ones you really can't tell if they are, all the way through the book, and there are a few here.Incidentally, there are two landscapes I almost always find incredibly dull, in virtually all forms of entertainment media: snowy wastelands and desert wastelands. Sprunk makes the sand here come alive, much as he made the snow and tundra come alive in the Shadow's series. Excellent read.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Rags to power
  

*by C***R on Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2019*

Horace begins in a new land as an enemy and his strange powers grow until he is the protector of the Queen. Nonstop intrigue and political machinations faced by a man who doesn't speak the native language. Good read.

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