{"id":8230,"date":"2015-08-12T14:12:51","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T18:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cemeterydanceonline.com\/?p=6678"},"modified":"2015-08-12T14:12:51","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T18:12:51","slug":"review-king-of-the-bastards-by-brian-keene-and-steven-shrewsbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/review-king-of-the-bastards-by-brian-keene-and-steven-shrewsbury\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: &#039;King of the Bastards&#039; by Brian Keene and Steven Shrewsbury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apexbookcompany.com\/products\/king-of-the-bastards\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>King of the Bastards<\/em> by Brian Keene and Steven Shrewsbury<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Apex Book Company (July 2015)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>182 pages, e-book $6.99, paperback $15.95<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Reviewed by Frank Michaels Errington<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6681\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/KingBastards-200x300.jpg?resize=200%2C300\" alt=\"Pageflex Persona [document: PRS0000037_00021]\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/>Brian Keene, a name synonymous with horror, and Steven Shrewsbury, best known for his work in the sword-and-sorcery genre, have combined their considerable talents and given us <em>King of the Bastards<\/em>. Told as a story to a small group of children, it was to be about their grandfather, the king&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWas grandfather king of the entire old world?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, he ruled but a small part of it. But he was known, feared, and lusted after throughout the entire old world. Kings, women, brigands, and bards&#8212;all knew his name. It is KING OF THE BASTARDS.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Check your thinking cap at the entrance and get ready for big time adventure. In the tradition of <em>Conan the Barbarian<\/em>, <em>King of the Bastards<\/em> is a bold, brash saga of a king and his nephew on a quest to return home and save their people from oppression at the hands of a group of savages. Along the way they have to deal with sea monsters, zombies, pirates, giants, one-breasted Amazonian women, maybe even aliens, and some elements of Lovecraftian horror.<\/p>\n<p>Rogan, King of the Bastards, is a bit misogynistic, but he&#8217;s a bastard and I guess that&#8217;s to be expected. Overall, this was a lot of fun and I can&#8217;t leave without complementing artist, Daniel Kamarudin, for the brilliant cover art on this book.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended for sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>King of the Bastards by Brian Keene and Steven Shrewsbury Apex Book Company (July 2015) 182 pages, e-book $6.99, paperback $15.95 Reviewed by Frank Michaels Errington Brian Keene, a name synonymous with horror, and Steven Shrewsbury, best known for his work in the sword-and-sorcery genre, have combined their considerable talents and given us King of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/review-king-of-the-bastards-by-brian-keene-and-steven-shrewsbury\/\" class=\"more-link button bg-gold white\">Continue Reading!<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Review: &#039;King of the Bastards&#039; by Brian Keene and Steven Shrewsbury&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80],"tags":[312,364,365,42,366,79,367],"class_list":["post-8230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-frank-michaels-errington","tag-apex-book-company","tag-brian-keene","tag-featured","tag-king-of-the-bastards","tag-reviews","tag-steven-shrewsbury"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Review: &#039;King of the Bastards&#039; 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