Book One that is a book, not a trailer for twelve more
UK KU, series-completionist: The King’s Sword ends. Joab dies. I am allowed to decide about book two like an adult.
Editorial reading note from the Backlinker Reader Desk. This is not an Amazon customer review. Personas are composite Kindle-reader voices, not real purchasers, and nothing here is a verified purchase, star rating, or endorsement for Amazon.
I punish book-one cliffhangers. This one does the opposite: the life is complete. Hands on the horns, Solomon’s order, the hard man spent by the peace. If The Unsung is thirteen volumes, volume one is still a novel. That is how you earn a UK reader who has been burned by American series that stop in the middle of a sentence.
It is US-biblical in furniture (Samuel, Kings, David) and I did not need a glossary. I noticed the prose is plain, which travels. No baseball metaphors. No ‘college’ as a personality. Good.
Will I continue
Yes, to Jeremiah, because a buried city is a different novel, not a clone with a new name on the cover. That is my series test: if book two is Joab again with a different beard, I am out. The jacket says biographical historicals of the unloved. That is a brief I will follow.
Kindle UK, KU. I will buy the ones I keep. I will not perform five stars for a stranger. I will say: this first book is whole, Joab is not likeable, the tree and the altar are the reasons to read, and you do not have to be American or churchy to finish it. That is the note.
UK store, US bones
The King’s Sword does not assume I know an American church. It assumes I can follow a life. I could. Joab ends. I like an ending. Thirteen volumes can wait their turn.
I will not perform a rating for a stranger, and I will not paste this onto Amazon as if I were a customer. This desk is a reading note. If you are in the UK store looking for biblical historicals that are actually novels, start here, then decide on Jeremiah like an adult. That is how series should work.
Last UK-store thought: I can recommend Book One without apologizing for twelve more. The King’s Sword ends. Joab is not likeable. The tree and the altar are the reasons. If Jeremiah is a clone, I will say so here. Until then, this is a novel, which is rarer than a series page.