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Title: Lay the Hate
Series: Forgotten Ruin #4
Author: Jason Anspach & Nick Cole
Rating: 3 of 5 Stars
Genre: Military Fantasy
Pages: 209
Words: 76K
The Ranger-Roos are off on a big bad mission to kill somebody. Only, they get side tracked and kill somebody else and the stupid narrator, Talker, who is like the most important person to the group for his linguistics skills, jumps into a dimensional vortex/rift thingy to save another ranger so he pretty much is dead.
Hurray!!!!!!!!!!!!! No more blathering idiot going on about coffee or blabbing about wanting to be a real Ranger-Roo. I actually did a fist pump when it was revealed that he was dead. It was very carthartic for me.
Of course, we’ll have to see if the next narrator is any better. I have a bad feeling Anspach and Cole (the authors) are just going to use some other nitwit to journal instead of, you know, actually writing an exciting adventure novel. Aaaaaand I just went on Amazon to see how many books were in this series and wouldn’t you know, one of the later books has Talker as the narrator again. Tarnation!
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Aren’t Lays potato crisps?
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They are.
I like the wavy sourcream n cheddar w French onion dip
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Sounds good!
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It is! If I don’t die from clogged arteries from eating too much pizza, this combo will probably do me in….
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Salt and Vinegar for me!
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I tried those a couple of times. It left my mouth so bent up that it almost hurt! So more power to you, they’re all yours! 😀
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How weird! OK, all mine!
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Hopefully the new talker will talk less?
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I really, really, really, really hope so.
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Well, if talking is his superpower it’s going to be hard to shut him up.
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Well, it was more about translating, which considering they are 10,000 years in the future, is pretty important. But he was a stupid wannabe, so I hope he stays away for at least 2 books. I can dream….
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I suppose the dimensional vortex/rift thingy will spit him out if he’s that annoying.
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Yeah, that’s what I’m afraid of. I know he’s coming back, so I guess it’s just a matter of trying to enjoy the book or two where he’s gone.
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Maybe they think Talker is too much of a fan favourite😂
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SOMEBODY likes him, or there wouldn’t be 8 of these books
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That’s what I think about certain series. HOW are there so many. What oddball is reading certain authors haha
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😀
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I’m sorry. I laughed out loud when you spat out “Tarnation”. No respite for you with that character hahaah
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You’d think certain death would help things along, but sadly, no such luck 😦
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Lol, this description made the book sound like a ripoff of Black Company 😉
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Sadly, there’s no comparison. BC was fun to read and told an exciting story. This stuff, well, it just holds the ramblings of a young guy who can only think about coffee and languages 😦
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Yeah, I should’ve added ‘bad’ before the ripoff… 🤣 Will you be continuing the series?
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I will. I have hopes that maybe without Talker as the main character the authors will tell an actual story instead of the coffee fueled scribblings of a young narcissist. These have all been closer to journal entries instead of a telling a story and it really hasn’t worked for me.
But it wouldn’t surprise me that as soon as Talker becomes the mc again that I’ll quit. I really dislike him.
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