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Oath of Swords af David Weber
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Oath of Swords (original 1995; udgave 2006)

af David Weber (Forfatter)

Serier: War God (1)

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Whom the gods would recruit, they first tick off . . .

Our Hero: The unlikely Paladin, Bahzell Bahnakson of the Horse Stealer Hradani. He's no knight in shining armor. He's a hradani, a race known for their uncontrollable rages, bloodthirsty tendencies, and inability to maintain civilized conduct. None of the other Five Races of man like the hradani. Besides his ethnic burden, Bahzell has problems of his own to deal with: a violated hostage bond, a vengeful prince, a price on his head. He doesn't want to mess with anybody else's problems, let alone a god's. Let alone the War God's! So how does he end up a thousand leagues from home, neck-deep in political intrigue, assassins, demons, psionicists, evil sorcery, white sorcery, dark gods, good gods, bad poets, greedy landlords, and most of Bortalik Bay Well, it's all the War God's fault. . . .

At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

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Medlem:zakman14
Titel:Oath of Swords
Forfattere:David Weber (Forfatter)
Info:Baen (2006), Edition: Reprint, 576 pages
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Oath of Swords af David Weber (1995)

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Nifty stuff - and better still on re-read. ( )
  wetdryvac | Mar 2, 2021 |
The plot was ok but I wasn't drawn to the characters and I found it to be a really slow read. ( )
  Linyarai | Feb 16, 2020 |
I've reread this book and I still really like it. It's one of those feel good books you can read at any time that makes you happy. ( )
  ladyoflorien | Nov 19, 2018 |
David Weber is famous for his Honor Harrington science fiction/space opera series, and not every author can do fantasy and sci fi successfully.

David Weber, however, most certainly can.

If you are expecting something like Honor Harrington, but with more swords (OK, not that many more swords) but fewer spaceships, forget it. Oath of Swords is something else entirely. This is a funny, observant romp of a traditional swords-and-sorcery fantasy novel.

In Weber's fantasy world, there are five 'races of man' - humans, dwarves, elves, halflings and hradani. The hradani are a kind of orc-equivalent - large and violent - and Our Hero, Bahzell, is one of them. This immediately marks the book off from other fantasy novels as the hero is not straight vanilla human, and he's from a race that's traditionally the Bad Guys in fantasy. In fact, since Bahzell's world is several hundred years after a fairly apocalyptic mage war in which the hradani fought on the wrong side, hradani are seen as the Bad Guys by everyone who isn't a hradani in this book too. The lingering prejudice against hradani is a running theme in the book.

Bahzell, being the son of the ruler of one of the hradani city-states, is a sort of envoy crossed with hostage at the court of another hradani prince. He interferes in some local nastiness which results in him having to flee (with the female victim) for his life. His local friend, Brandark, goes with him 'to keep him out of trouble'.

The rest of the book is the chronicle of Bahzell and Brandark's amusingly ill-fated journey across the continent, dealing with evildoers, rescuing maidens in distress, and confronting unwanted gods. Unwanted by Bahzell, anyway.

Although this is quite definitely 'light fantasy', it has enough depth to be interesting and Weber has written characters that you like (or like to hate) so you want to read on in order to find out what happens to them, and what scrape Bahzell (and Brandark) is going to get into next. It's good clean fun, and I've read it more times than I like to admit. ( )
1 stem T_K_Elliott | Mar 12, 2017 |
I am irrationally fond of this book, and this series. Irrationally, because it's about the pulpiest pulp I have on my shelves - it reads like an extended D&D campaign, where every new sequence happens because that's what the dungeonmaster happened to think up that week, the characters are charming but not particularly original, the theology is trying to be profound and utterly failing, and the running "gag" where the main character keeps "having" to rescue women from rape against his better judgement is kind of appalling if you examine it too closely.

Nevertheless, it's glib, witty, and a great deal of fun. Even if it doesn't so much have a plot arc as a plot series-of-tangents, I was still left wanting to know what happened next. ( )
1 stem JeremyPreacher | Mar 30, 2013 |
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Whom the gods would recruit, they first tick off . . .

Our Hero: The unlikely Paladin, Bahzell Bahnakson of the Horse Stealer Hradani. He's no knight in shining armor. He's a hradani, a race known for their uncontrollable rages, bloodthirsty tendencies, and inability to maintain civilized conduct. None of the other Five Races of man like the hradani. Besides his ethnic burden, Bahzell has problems of his own to deal with: a violated hostage bond, a vengeful prince, a price on his head. He doesn't want to mess with anybody else's problems, let alone a god's. Let alone the War God's! So how does he end up a thousand leagues from home, neck-deep in political intrigue, assassins, demons, psionicists, evil sorcery, white sorcery, dark gods, good gods, bad poets, greedy landlords, and most of Bortalik Bay Well, it's all the War God's fault. . . .

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