The Maleficent Seven
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4.3 • 68 Ratings
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
A “wickedly inventive” grimdark fantasy full of non-stop bloody action, shocking plot twists, and snarky gallows humor as a mismatched team of villains gets their shot at heroic glory (SFX).
When you are all out of heroes, all that’s left are the villains.
Black Herran was a dread demonologist, and the most ruthless general in all Essoran. She assembled the six most fearsome warriors to captain her armies: a necromancer, a vampire lord, a demigod, an orcish warleader, a pirate queen, and a twisted alchemist. Together they brought the whole continent to its knees . . . Until the day she abandoned her army, on the eve of total victory.
Forty years later, she must bring her former captains back together for one final stand, in the small town of Tarnbrooke—the last bastion against a fanatical new enemy tearing through the land, intent on finishing the job Black Herran started years before.
Seven bloodthirsty monsters. One town. Their last hope.
Customer Reviews
Bad to the bone, and you can’t help but love it.
The idea of good and evil is exposed by making it really about innocence and power. The terrible and wonderfully different team of protagonists comes together to fight the zealots of the bright one, a goddess of… good? I loved the “getting the team back together” aspect which then turned into fun rivalries, in a world of high power and bloodshed. The mystery of who and what everyone wants keep the pages turning, as well as the question, what does it take to kill a god?