Breach of Peace

By: Daniel B. Greene

Narrated by: Kate Reading, Michael Kramer

Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins

Publisher's summary

An imperial family is found butchered. Officers of God are called to investigate. Evidence points to a rebel group trying to seed fear into the very heart of the empire itself.

Inspector Khlid takes the case and begins a harrowing hunt for those responsible. But when a larger conspiracy comes to light, will Inspector Khlid be able to trust those working within her own precinct?

©2021 Daniel Greene (P)2021 Daniel Greene

Not bad 👍

Enjoyed this quite a bit and will add this to the list of worlds that would suck to live in 🤣 Nice amount of gore/disturbing scenes. Looking forward to the next book.

Unexpectedly Amazing

In only 3 hours I learned to laugh love and cry with these characters, amazing job by Greene. I'd like to pre-order any of his future books now

Very good first jump into a new world

Great first taste of a new world. So many questions. Can't wait for the next installment to start answering those questions.

Enthralling!

I have to say that I am impressed! No offense to Mr. Green himself of course, but I wasn't expecting to be so engaged with such pacing. Great delivery. Thank you!

Great first book

Overall this was a great debut and I'm excited to read further works. The prose was straight forward, which I don't mind, but it felt a little unpolished in places.

Good characters and plot. I could have used more world building. Usually I really appreciate novellas, but I think this story would have benefited from a little more detail along the way, and I feel left with a ton of questions. Some of this is international from a plot standpoint, but some of it felt constrained by the length of the work.

Well written but quite gruesome

It was a solid start for Daniel Greene, but it was unnecessarily gruesome for my taste

An interesting world left underfilled

Positives:
+The writing style is descriptive without being redundant. I'm aweful at proes and give Daniel full respect for what he accomplished here with tone and text.
+A married couple. How many characters do we meet with comple lives in fantasy these days? I can't recall any others in mainstream fantasy that feel real, wholesome and flawed at the same time
+An individual on the spectrum. As a husband and father to people on the Spectrum, thank you for actually showing a better picture of their mind versus what others see.
+The narration. I do not know what you sacrificed to earn these two, but well done. Its obvious there was good team communication because they add inflection to the dialogue that benefit the story and character development.

Negatives:
- The most interesting fantasy world you will know nothing about. It obvious there's a Bible about this world and I HOPE it gets explored.
- A mystery that is too good to be this rushed. First we have a murder, then a monster, then a state conspiracy. All of these aspects were interesting but their greatness is denied by this break neck pace. Ya went from Holmes to Orwell in less than four chapters man!
- Character names. Did you attend the Forgotten relams school of naming people? I know this is petty but I swear even the narrators stumbled on them a few times
-A god (demi) among men. If a demi God of the Empire is going to be your third act monster, we should have a clue about the religion and structure in the first place. I call this the Sunshine problem.

Thoughts:
Forgive me Goblin King, for I shall sin. This book, if viewed as a multi hour proluoge, is downright awesome. This book as viewed as a novel fails to accomplish the best parts of a fantasy story: Worldbuilding and hero's journey, and satisfying conclusion (not to say a happy conclusion). I do have high hopes for what is to come.

This story falls into a trap that often haunts critics seeking to create. It presents elements of a fantastic world that gives me pleasant memories of Mistborn and Dresden. Yet what do all the critics say about Sanderson and Butcher? They go on too much with world building. The dirty trick of it is that we need to get familiar with the world in the first book. The world is not just a setting, its an active living character. Or at least it should be. Here it acts like a slate template. How does the 7th precinct cover from a nobel mansion to the docks? Was the Mansion in town?

At one point the captain invited the main character to return to first grade for a history lesson. My honest to god thought was 'Can we please?' Because if there were demons less than 100 years ago and then they 'died,' I would very much like to know more! Let alone when a Demi God actually stomps in during act 3, and we go from 'oh the church and God are important,' to 'What the @#$% is God?'

There are great building blocks for a story, but the architecture here is a jenga tower constructed by caffeine riddled children. I have high hopes but book 2 needs to flesh this world out.

Great debut from Daniel Greene!

Great debut from Daniel Greene! Kramer and Reading knock it out of the park as always.

A Good Start

I was drawn to this book as a fan of the author's YouTube content. It seemed like an easy way to support the creator without much effort, especially since I'm always looking for a new fantasy series to dive into. While we only get hints of the greater world at large, the hints were enough to make me want to know more about the world in general. This seems a small thing but not every entry point into a series succeeds at making me want to know more. I also found that despite the the shorter length I liked my time with the main characters. For most of the story I wasn't confident about who should be rooting for or who the "good guy" was but this always felt intended. The world seemed a bit darker than I usually prefer but not so much that I wouldn't come back. I plan on reading the sequel, which is best recommendation I feel I can give.

The narrators are likely familiar to anyone who is familiar with fantasy novels. As always they both do an excellent job and I am always grateful to see both a male and a female narrator for varying points of view.

Amazing. fFavorite YouTube and great first outing.

Amazing. fFavorite YouTube and great first outing.
brutal. intriguing. thrilling. action packed. lots of supernatural and even steam punky goodness.