Warmache

By: L. Fergus, Mark Gardner

Narrated by: Samuel E. Hoke

Length: 1 hr and 41 mins

Publisher's summary

After discovering that he is the reincarnation of a fallen ancient king, Abraham must travel aboard the fishing boat Zeebedee to confront an ancient evil that has plans to enslave humanity, and remake the planet to its whims. Abraham won't be alone on his journey, as people, places, and things are not as they appear to be.

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Warmache

I enjoyed this.It could have been longer to get more into the storyline.Samuel E.Hoke is a really good narrator.A mariner finds that he is the reincarnation of an ancient king.He has to go through trials to save the world.“I was voluntarily provided this free review copy audiobook by the author, narrator, or publisher.”

Way too short, needs to be MUCH longer

I was given this free review copy audio book at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

The biblical references were interesting and the narration really was quite good, but it just never got there for me. The book was WAY too short and underdeveloped. This really needs to be much longer and fleshed out. If it was, I would probably rate it MUCH higher.

A good quick fantasy tale

Take a quick romp through a new fantasy world. Be ready for a very unique first person point Of view for the narrator. The story was good and fleshed out quickly though a bit unusual from a narrator point. Give it a go and enjoy. I was voluntarily provided this free review copy audiobook by the author, narrator, or publisher.

A good short.

Interesting and great while on a trip. The story and narration makes a long journey seem short. I received this audio book for free at my request and voluntarily reviewed.

Short story teases of a larger world

When a simple fisherman is informed he is the reborn King Abraham he undertakes a journey to stop an evil forces from taking over the world. Unfortunately for him the fisherman is not burdened by having any memories, training or knowledge of his prior life and can only take the word of a mysterious adviser that his is in fact the king. Ill equipped he sets out to cross the sea and save the world.

Warmache throws us into the deep end with the world, starting in the middle of the story and not really explaining how we got there. We are in a ship with 'King Abraham' as travels, through a storm and through an attack by adversaries. We are slowly given some details but never fully. For example, the fisherman references the King's death but doesn't give details. It is presented to us as if we were a citizen of this world and would know something which would be common knowledge to all in that world. The players in the battle are somewhat taken for granted that we would know them. Details and backgrounds are barely given.

While this could be annoying for most stories, it actually works really well here. We are given enough to know what is going on and never be lost, but not so much as to drown out the story being told with details. There is a much much wider, deeper lore here, but we only see glimpses, like through a mirror darkly.

The story is told is a strange version of present tense that seems to avoid a lot of the trappings of present tense story telling. This might be partially because of the shortness of the book and the pace, that it doesn't have time to get bogged down in introspection.

Narration by Samuel E. Hoke is good. He is well paced and and easy to understand. He has a gruffness that perfectly suits the main character. He does not do voices for the individual characters (or barely does) but it is never difficult to follow who is saying what. It is all told through the perspective of Abraham, and thus all told in his voice. This works well for the story.

I was voluntarily provided this free review copy audiobook by the author, narrator, or publisher.

Great Read

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Warmache by Mark Gardner and L. Fergus was a good read. Abraham finds out that he is the reincarnation of a king. He goes on to confront an evil that wants to enslave humanity. This was a good quick read.

A short story that really was to short

This short story really needed a few chapters before it's beginning to set the stage and explain things to preempt the ensuing confusion and ambiguity that follows. First of all the characters are named after biblical Old Testament Prophets, but are fantasy characters in a fantasy tale. But that is not apparent in the beginning. There are references to Biblical places, but the story takes place in some other world. The characters are not well fleshed out in the least and therefore I didn't much care what happened to them.

I think the story could be turned into something of much more value if a whole lot more story were crafted to fill in the holes and PLEASE put a little effort into coming up with some unique names to avoid the confusion of what the story is supposed to be.