The Lost Hero (Book I of The Heaven Saga)

Brian is a good looking and likeable guy stuck on a ship of all females because for some reason the males of the Kalaidian's have all died off. This begins a portion that might put some people off because it just looks like a stack of one trope after another. It's not until later where these things are all sorted out and better explained that things begin to make sense and really get interesting. Brian has access to a strange phenomenon that is referred to as Berserker. Brian kind-of loses it while in battle and kills everything nearby. There is something that happens with the eyes and by the description its something that happens because of Nanos that have been injected into him by the Kalaidians for both health and strength and the ability to understand languages.

The problem with this is that, before the injection, while aboard the Grey ship Brian does something similar that results in his killing all the Greys aboard the ship. This could almost look like a plot hole and maybe gets explained in future episodes. A big caveat in this book is the Grammar spelling punctuation thing. I was less annoyed than some people by the missing words and sometimes extra words and missing parts of words that cause the sentences to be difficult to read.

It definitely looks like this book could use more editing. Most annoying to me was the use of lied for lay there are seven instances that it should have been lay and it would be less annoying if there were not the three instances where lay was properly used at the beginning. It's almost as though the first few chapter received some editing that the remainder didn't get.

Now to get back to what I liked. In the back part of the book as the author hits the action packed climatic scenes he does a tremendous job of drawing the reader into the story and for me that made most of the above become excusable. But that's for me and other readers will have to read this novel themselves to decide what they think.

As for the length of the story; it is definitely novel size and one thing that would be more helpful than the page count would be an approximate word count. Page counts and even location numbers within the kindle tend to be deceiving sometimes. I'm certainly happy it wasn't longer because there is a bit of exposition at the end that reveals the political and religious elements quite strongly that I'm grateful didn't get carried too far. So this is a novel that is probably just at the edge of the best size for this type of novel.

This is a good story for fans of SFF with the emphasis on Fantasy and a leniency toward editing problems. I'm so glad I found this author.

This book was amazing. I have not experienced the Golden Age of sci-fi adventure novels, but I know what style it was by having read some of the classic pulp masters of the era. I don't know about M. Johnson personal experience, but let me tell you that his book took me back to the Golden Age of science fiction. Here is a list of what you will find in the book: A world where freedom is non-existent, but where a religious prophesy talk about the coming of a human saviour. A confederation of planets regrouping several diverse alien races with different agendas and goals for the future, etc.

But the greatest thing that you will find in the book is the omnipresent sense of wonder, adventure, fun and pure Sci-FY goodness. I'm french, so Google them. The author's writing style is very simple, easy-to-read and effective. Some of the very too few reviews of this book mention the bad editing, missing small words like ''to'' or ''the'' and unfortunately they are right. I did find several of this omission, but nothing that hurt the overall experience.

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I think I have found the author that will finally take me on the pure, fun, Golden Age, pulp science-fiction ride I've been waiting for. Jul 18, Eric rated it did not like it Shelves: This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Imagine being something years old, you are kidnapped by scary aliens, then 'rescued' by very attractive Kalaidian females.

It then turns out you are a legendary warrior and prophesied savior to these Kalaidians, and there are no Kalaidian males! What's more, most of these women you meet want to and do have sex with you. If that's not enough, you almost single-handedly defeat all the aliens that the Kalaidians have been fighting for so long, and then you promptly prevent a bloody revolution Imagine being something years old, you are kidnapped by scary aliens, then 'rescued' by very attractive Kalaidian females.

If that's not enough, you almost single-handedly defeat all the aliens that the Kalaidians have been fighting for so long, and then you promptly prevent a bloody revolution and convince the Kalaidian queen, with the power of your smile and charm, to step down and give democracy a go. This is a very amateuristic and childish attempt at story-telling in general and sci-fi in particular.

I don't know Marcus Johnson, I just hope, for his sake, that he is a teenager with very limited real-world experience, because that would be the only reasonable explanation for writing this story. Nov 01, Daniel Reyes rated it liked it Shelves: This book made me remember why I like space operas. This one has a fast pace and an engaging story, so much so that I went on to read the entire trilogy, and hope more books are coming.

One word of caution though, it has a lot of spelling and gramatical errors, such as saying from when it should be for, and that makes it a little clunky to read. John Nuno rated it really liked it Aug 25, Janhavi rated it it was amazing May 27, Eric rated it it was amazing Oct 31, William E rated it it was amazing Feb 06, Tim Crockett rated it liked it Nov 02, Tiana rated it liked it May 23, Ivan rated it liked it Jul 20, Guy Dupuis rated it really liked it Mar 22, Raymond Jay rated it really liked it Nov 10, Alamoz rated it it was amazing Dec 21, Jed Fisher rated it it was amazing Jul 26, Turner Brooks rated it liked it Jan 05, Allison G rated it liked it Jul 18, David Lewis rated it really liked it May 20, Cory Rose rated it liked it Sep 30, David Davies rated it it was ok Jul 12, Kevin rated it really liked it Aug 12, Ron Layton rated it did not like it Jun 06, Bookaddict rated it really liked it Jun 30, Jorge Romero rated it it was amazing Jun 07, Lukas rated it really liked it Apr 03, Angel Romero rated it did not like it Nov 04, Jacob Hunter rated it it was amazing Jun 15, M J Jevons rated it it was amazing Feb 09, But Merlin is nowhere to be found.

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Leading the fight in his place is Basil, the once tiny lizard who is now the most powerful dragon in Avalon. But to restore peace, the mastermind behind this chaos, Doomraga, will need to be discovered and destroyed before his power grows stronger and Avalon and its inhabitants are beyond saving. For Basil to triumph, he and his friends may need to make the ultimate sacrifice. A dark magic has been spreading across Avalon. Initially, the events seemed unrelated: One that must be stopped before all of Avalon is lost.

Barron sends Merlin, Rhia, and Basil, the greatest dragon ever, on a mission across Avalon to root out this new enemy. But sacrifices will be made, relationships will be tested, and precious lives will be lost. The Dragon of Avalon. In the years after Fincayra disappears and Merlin has been sent wandering, a young lizard-like creature, with the wings of a bat and the magical power to produce any smell it encounters, is born into the new world of Avalon.

The unlikely hero—Basil, he is called—cannot find a single creature like itself nor a person who can tell him what he is. Book 5 in the Merlin Saga by T. Only if Merlin can unite the battling forces within himself, can he save the children, unify the Fincayrans, and regain the long lost wings that will enable him, and his people, to choose their true destiny. The Mirror of Fate.

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What is the nature of fate? Is young Merlin destined to be a powerful wizard, or does he have a choice? These are the questions Merlin must answer as he travels with the deer woman Hallia to the Haunted Marsh where the marsh ghouls have begun a campaign of destruction.

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Or are the ghouls being manipulated by an even greater source of evil? An evil that seeks to destroy not the marsh, but Merlin himself? Young Merlin, triumphant after his first encounter with the dreaded Rhita Gawr, has brought new hope to Fincayra, the enchanted isle that lies between earth and sky.

To save her, Merlin and the forest girl Rhia must follow the perilous path of Seven Songs of Wizardry that has claimed even the lives of great wizards. Most difficult of all, Merlin must discover the secret of seeing not with his eyes, but with his heart. It adds a thrilling new dimension to the legend of Merlin, even as it offers lasting inspiration to us all. In this the third story in his Arthurian epic, T. Barron adds a thrilling new dimension to the legend of Merlin. Wings of Fire, the sleeping dragon, has awakened, threatening to loose his terrible wrath on all of Fincayra. He must face the evil, batlike kreelixes who exist only to destroy magic; the mysterious Wheel of Wye; and the sorceress Urnalda, who holds the treasured Galator.

Most challenging, young Merlin must discover not the power but the source of his own magic.

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