The Walrus and the Warwolf
(Chronicles of Age of Darkness)
(Chronicles of An Age of Darkness
Vol 4) by Hugh Cook
Encore...Please?!
Begins as the story of a young man named Drake who is thrown into the
sea by the allegedly merciful King Tor. It goes on to include Drakes
vengeance upon the king and sundry other adventures (in company with
appropriate others) on land, sea, and in realms not of Earth. This is the
kind of large-scale fantasizing that has made David Edding justly well
known, and Cook indulges an Eddings-like penchant for drawing basic plot
elements from the conventional fantasy repertoire and then reworking
them so effectively that they make for compelling reading. Cook brings to
his particular fantasizing a distinctly offbeat sense of the ridiculous, too.
The results he produces should please a wide range of fantasy readers. -
Booklist.

Personal Review: The Walrus and the Warwolf (Chronicles of
Age of Darkness) (Chronicles of An Age of Darkness Vol 4) by
Hugh Cook
This book is definitely the best book in the series and the place any new
reader to Hugh Cook should start. Why no one has made it into a movie
escapes me as the main character would leave the average adventure
movie lead grasping for breath. It's real old school "boys own adventure"
stuff - a ripping yarn. Sadly the author passed away recently so we can't
expect anything new in this series, which is rather old now anyhow.
We start out with lead as a young lad getting involved with pirates and
traveling the sea, ending with him growing up and getting involved in all
sort of reckless adventures in between. The world he inhabits is not
ordinary SF high tech, but rather a dying world that obviously once had
high tech (some of which still works and seems like magic to some of the
inhabitants) but has now decayed into semi barbarism. So really anything
goes to keep the adventure rolling. Despite starting off a little slow it's well
worth taking you're time. I've read this many times and still really enjoy.
As one review stated, "buy, beg or steal a copy". If you like adventure SF
fantasy it's a must read.
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