We Are The Dead

The bone shattering epic fantasy thriller

De: Mike Shackle

Narrado por: Nicola Bryant

The first book in The Last War series: a debut epic fantasy full of crunching revolutionary action, twisted magic, and hard choices in dark times.

The war is over. The enemy won.

Jia's people learned the hard way that there are no second chances. The Egril, their ancient enemy, struck with magic so devastating that Jia's armies were wiped out. Now terror reigns in the streets, and friend turns on friend just to live another day.

Somehow Tinnstra - a deserter, a failure, nothing but a coward - survived. She wants no more than to hide from the chaos.

But dragged into a desperate plot to retake Jia, surrounded by people willing to do anything to win the fight, this time Tinnstra will need to do more than hide.

If Jia is to get a second chance after all, this time she will need to be a hero.

With all the grit of Joe Abercrombie, Mark Lawrence and Ed McDonald, this is fantasy with the sharpest of edges.

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'The next Game of Thrones' Glen Cook, author of The Black Company

'Tarantino crossed with David Gemmell' Peter McLean, author of Priest of Bones

'A powerful debut' Gavin Smith, author of The Bastard Legion©2019 Mike Shackle

Reseñas de la Crítica

Likely the next Game of Thrones, and the best book I've read in several years. Erikson, Martin and Rothfuss are going to have to shove over and make room at the bar . . . I can't think how to tone down my enthusiasm

Like Tarantino crossed with David Gemmell . . . Absolutely splendid. Shackle has come up with something really special here

Hooked from page one, We Are the Dead rattles along with the pace of a runaway bullet train. Original, engaging, flawed but very-human characters draw us into a world rent by war, a world of brutal occupation, tarnished honour and devastating magics. This is a powerful debut and Shackle is an author to watch

A masterpiece of a story about hope, resistance and fellowship

An adventure that's rich in darkness and bloodshed.

Fans of Joe Abercrombie and R.F. Kuang are sure to find something to love here

We Are the Dead is a staggering, marvellous and gripping fantasy debut

A barnstorming book of ordinary people dealing with extraordinary circumstances - great fun and very entertaining

Gripping, grim and glorious

An utter masterpiece

We Are the Dead is a fantasy novel that is able to blend the modern trends of dark fantasy with the magical styles of the past

A brutal showstopper of a novel

This is a good fun resistance story, featuring thoroughly horrible, and believable, occupiers

One of the best fantasy debuts in years

We Are the Dead is awesome. Memorable characters. One of the most sadistic villains I've ever encountered. Tightly woven action scenes that feel like something you'd see in a Micheal Mann film. I was gripped and loving it the entire time

An easy 5 stars from me . . . The tension ratchets up nicely as the best laid plans fall apart and people struggle to survive. The world building and characters fit together flawlessly

You can't write a debut novel much better than this

From start to finish this will keep you on the edge of your seat. This is an outstanding debut, you don't want to miss it.

A fantastic, enthralling debut. Imagine if Akira Kuworasawa and Joe Abercrombie wrote a fantasy thriller with a pace that moves at the speed of light

A fantastic story with unique characters that draw you in and don't let you go

A superb opening novel to The Last War series that takes you on a break-neck speed ride of plot twists, bloody battles and pain

Dark, brutal, wonderful

One of the best debuts I've read in ages. Original grimdark fantasy, wonderfully paced

Good Book!

The moments are there but still lacking in some areas. Good enough to keep me going onto the next book.

excellent

a thouroughly entertaining simple story that is well told and is engaging - excellent voice over

Great Book

great book mike shackle is rising star cant wait to reed his new book that all

loved it

i loved this book...the character arcs were amazing, and the plot kept me hooked. highly recommend

Stupid Tax is painful. Where is the humor?

This series was recommended to me by people who knew my fondness for The First Law series by Joe Abercrombie. Now, that is indeed high praise, perhaps the highest of praise. So I was skeptical. However I bought and listened. The Narrator, Nicola Bryant, does a fantastic job with the performance, however Mike Shackle's series is not like The First Law. Indeed it is dark, very dark. His characters' arcs are complete. Yet, they have almost no humor to them. They are a drain to listen or read. Where Abercrombie's are far more realistic with their ability to cope with stress, despair, and loss, Shackle's are just, 'meh'.

The characters are stupid...very stupid. Some of the dialogue is just as dumb, some of the dialogue is wonderful, but this is rare. It would be pardonable if they ALL were not so dim. I tried to like it, I wanted to like it, but alas I could not bring myself to enjoy the story no matter what was happening. Mainly due to the fact that what the outcome always was... by an large it was always failure. Not the 'chance to learn and grow' kind, rather the useless and painful kind. Pain for pain's sake was the most consistent theme that I took out of the story, especially the first two books. As a Historian and a combat veteran I am aware of that side of war and humanity, yet there is also a since of comradery and humor that develops, which is known as "Trauma Bonding", Shackle's characters display almost none of this.

Shackle's characters seem to lack any identity of the fantasy world he created. They are written as a current western civilization character being placed in an ever increasing horror filled environment where everything goes wrong because they are too stupid to recognize what should be done. Nearly all of the character's are annoying and endlessly complaining about almost the exact same things. Some subtle differences really helped me push through the second book, but that was about it.
So in closing, I will say that if you have not read or listened to The First Law, do so, however, listen or read this first. It might be good to you and you might like the work and not catch the major issues that I had with it. Great concept for story and characters, truly remarkable, but very poorly imagined vision/interpretation of how humanity varies in dealing with loss and hard times. Ultimately, the characters ruin the story for me, but I may be just too spoiled by certain authors.