The Enemy of an Enemy
Lost Tales of Power, Volume 1
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4.1 • 28 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Vydor is riding a wave of success, but now his ship, the Dragon Claw, is being sent to investigate a mysterious event deep within the Empire’s space. A secret research colony has fallen silent and the forces sent to investigate were never heard from again.
A new enemy has come to the Empire bringing with it dark powers that were abandoned long before the Empire was born. Powers that were thought to be legends and myths.
It's up to Vydor to keep this force at bay and protect the Empire, but it may come at the cost of his faith and shake the foundations of the Empire itself.
The Lost Tales of Power is an open-ended series of Sci-Fi/Fantasy books set in a vast multiverse featuring a mixture of traditional fantasy and science fiction elements.
Lost Tales Series:
Volume I - The Enemy of an Enemy
Volume II - The Academy
Volume III - Rise of Shadows
Volume IV - Resurgence of Ancient Darkness
Volume V - The Sac’a’rith
Volume VI - Spectra’s Gambit
Volume VII - The Sac'a'rith: Rebirth
Volume VIII - Mage Hunter
Volume IX - The Cerulean Mines
Volume X and beyond - TBA
Customer Reviews
Wooden, Bland, and Nonsensical
I would not recommend this book to anyone. It is full of basic textual errors; it uses first-person personal perspective from multiple points of view, for example.
The dialogue is possibly the most wooden I have ever read; there are no contractions. None. Even when the protagonist, a telepath, is communicating with other characters via telepathic congress, the dialogue is more; "we will do this. I will not be doing that," as opposed to the far less stilted; "we'll do this. I won't do that."
The story starts as basic sci fi with an interesting premise, which kept me interested in spite of the textual errors. But the ceaseless hero worship directed at the protagonist and the bland, one-dimensional writing - instead of showing anger, the writer has the character say or think; "I am angry" - quickly turned me off. The suddengenre change from sci-fi to fantasy with a weak build and poor explanation certainly doesn't help, but it could have worked if the writing and story was better.
One star, avoid. I like to support independent authors, but if the writer had an editor who wasn't related to him this would never have been published.