The Paladin Chronicles
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When published, this novel was regarded highly enough to be nominated for an EVVY Award even though it didn’t fit into any category. The Paladin Chronicles combines political intrigue, space travel, romance, and massive space battles in a science fiction YA novel to tell an adventure tale reasonably unlike anything that has come before. B. W. Philpot manages this quick-paced read lacking sexual narratives or the use of profanity and brings it to fruition with a surprising ending.
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I can’t judge the disparity between the reviews and the actual novel. This book is not worth even the low, low fee of $1.75.
I wasted an hour hoping desperately that it would improve. As a replacement for it is written in a meandering, unfocused prose, and it comes across as reaching and childish.
If you want to know what I’m talking about download the sample and give it a rotate. But to give this book 4 or 5 stars is an insult to authors that really truly earned persons ratings with first class work. The errors alone in grammar and spelling are off-putting.
Buy at your own risk. That’s all I’m adage. Disappointing. Requires a rewrite. No, wait… John Ringo wrote this tale already with the Aldenata series.
Oh, durn.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
When I bought the book it had 9 reviews and score of 5 stars but one I ongoing reading it I was astonished at how it was possible for such inflated ratings.
The storyline is completely linear and told in a way that you *know* what’s going to take place next, there are some obvious “retcon’ing” to make the tale work lacking bothering to do proper editing and the style is of hollywood Tv series speech (that I establish particularly hard to follow).
I rarely rate books but I felt compeled to write this review to try to adjust it to where I sincerely reflect it belongs.
PS: retcon = retroactive continuity: patch the past storyline in the present storyline.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
I’m sorry this book had a fantastic tale and it did keep me interested all the way through it. But I was glad I didn’t pay very much for it. It was just written in such a way as to scream amateur at me with every word. It was constantly distracting. This is one of persons few books I’ve read that the tale was excellent enough that I with the leader had hired a name else to write it for him.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
The take in of the book was certainly lure enough, the title appealing enough, but when I started reading, I knew straight away that I needed to hold on and be prepared for the “G” forces of plot, characterization, and speed of the science fiction I held before me.First at hand, the leader developed the tale extremely quick and then threw in bio-technical, military, and situational suspense and intrigue that kept me fixed to the book. At times, especially at the end of the tale, the leader gives the reader a glimpse of his poetic voice. This was a truly enjoyable read. Thank you Mr. Philpot for a delightful time in your pages of a fantastic sci fi adventure.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
This review is developed from a few excerpts in a collection of posts made in an Amazon Shorts Forum in which Brad Philpot and I shared an ongoing commentary from my reading Brad’s PALADIN CHRONICLES and his reading one of my nonfiction books. You are invited to visit that forum if you’re interested in reading more of this discussion, which started (on Jan 1, 2010, page 53 of the forum) these exchanged commentaries on persons two books a few pages prior to the posts included not more than; then evolved, mostly from John Cassell’s purposeful development, into a dissertation about the differences between a Writer and a Storyteller.
Excerpts from posts by Brad and Linda discussing his PALADIN CHRONICLES, from page 54 in the forum in Amazon Shorts titled, “Toasting John Cassell’s novel, “HELL’S QUEST: 1971″: An ongoing commentary):
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Brad, I’ve finished reading THE PALADIN CHRONICLES!
The ending of PC is brilliant, outstanding even! It’s poetic, metaphysical, artistic, spiritual; with that mood providing pleasing, soothing contrast to the clean, profound physics of the sci-fi, and to the military concepts you’ve dramatized.
I was warmly surprised to learn who the omniscient narrator was, and what he did (and why) with a chapter or two of the chronicle he was writing. The way you described the sheet of paper falling from his hand was factually “poetry in motion”… invention in incline (okay it was a descent… a floating, pendulum swing, spine fall… your wording was perfection).
I particularly liked the way you came full circle with the ending chapter’s chronicle giving slight contrasts and alterations of the prose used for your opening of the saga (the preparatory background describing the conflict between the Elders and the Zills). The mood change the ending gave to the rest of the book was pulled off perfectly, and reminded me to some extent of Clark’s 2001 with its concluding scenes’ transition in mode/mood from sci-fi’s cool temperatures to the metaphysical, spiritual art of the ending on the star child embryo. The Paladin Chronicles as a whole was cunningly done and fully entertaining with not one space allowed for lulls in reader involvement. – Post from Linda: Jan 28, 2010; 6:18 pm PST
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Linda, Thanks for the comments. Methinks the passage you were referring to was this:
“… lowered his arm and when his hand came to rest at his side, his grip on the page was loosened. It slid out of his long spindly fingers and ongoing its slow glide to the floor alongside the bench. Like a ship gently swaying on a cool sea, it rocked from side to side on its downward path until it slid softly to a stop on the floor not more than the bench.”
It may be right that occasionally the storyteller’s hat comes off to be replaced by an ill-fitting writer’s hat, if only to give a brief acknowledgement to the virtues of literary prose, but mostly I’m a storyteller. I’m pleased you establish some entertainment in reading it. – Post from Brad: Jan 30, 2010; 7:52 am PST
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Brad, I’m glad you posted a copy of that passage in PALADIN CHRONICLES. That is clearly an “acknowledgment to the virtues of literary prose.” Well said! I wanted to quote that passage but didn’t have time to find it and type it into my post. Your having done it in a response is more effective anyway! – Post from Linda: Jan 30, 2010; 7:35 pm PST
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Brad, I really liked the balance of horror you used which revolved mostly around the tastes of the Zillians for live food of sentient species who were feeling terror at the time of the feast. You provided … scene, extremely well done, of that behavior, which was just the right amount to get the point across clearly and essentially. And the way you developed Lensil’s reactions, physical, mental, emotional, and moral to being a forced observer to that scene was crushingly accomplished. Just the thought of the Zill’s tastes kept the reader on edge through the whole book, so that was enough of an elevation of the feeling of horror to get the benefit of that mood lacking descending into the type of horror for horror sake which I can’t read.
The rest of the book was engrossing and entertaining through additional more complex, mature yarn spinning literary devices, mostly the warmth and sympathy developed with your characterizations and George [an enhanced, wholly loveable, space traveling dog]; but also through the fantastic physics concepts which were simple enough to follow even for a person who has no background in dimensional physics. When I recall the feeling I had when reading the scene I mentioned and which you quoted in a recent post… the scene with … dropping the piece of paper… what I felt was the actual laws of PHYSICS in play with that drop. Your words were that perfectly descriptive. And you accomplished the same feeling in the way you described what happens to passengers in a space ship building jumps to travel 40 or 60 times the speed of light. Well done! – Post from Linda: Feb 1, 2010; 1:22 pm PST
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Note: If you go to this forum and want to focus on the posts related to this novel’s commentary, type “PALADIN” into the Search Customer Discussions box establish on the right side of the pages, near the top. To get to the Amazon Shorts category discussions, go to Philpot’s Amazon Fleeting, Preternatural Creatures, then scroll toward the bottom of the page to the list of Customer Discussions and click on the Toasting…HELL’S QUEST discussion.
Relishing the excellent company of storytellers,
Linda Shelnutt
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5