Title: Hollow Core (School of Swords and Serpents Book 1) Pdf
Jace Warin never wanted anything more than to attend the School of Swords and Serpents to escape the labor camps and restore his family's stained honor.
But the determined young martial artist soon discovers the school he's always dreamed about is teeming with secret plots and sinister designs. To survive, he will have to master long-lost jinsei techniques, repair his wounded soul, and face down a most unexpected enemy: The Academy's ruthless headmaster and cunning professors.
Hollow is the first book in the School of Swords and Serpents series, a tale of wuxia adventure, cultivation mastery, and lurking threats.
“Wow, this book is crazy-good. If the Harry Potter series were somehow violently smashed together with the characters from Mortal Kombat, you might have something that comes close to the School of Swords and Serpents.” —James A. Hunter, Bestselling Author of Rogue Dungeon, Bibliomancer, and the LitRPG epic Viridian Gate Online
An Interesting Juxtaposition This book was an enjoyable read. The main character is scrappy, tenacious, and everything that you expect from a cultivation hero, working from behind to grow in strength.However, some parts of it didn't jive for me. It was a school, yet the teachers were only secretly against the MC? There was a big conspiracy that the MC wasn't a part of, but was directly affecting?It's only when he is apparently to be 'dealt with' that someone actually explains to him WHAT was going on. This was a little jarring and made no sense.A little more world building would have been good, as well, perhaps giving the MC some allies as well. There is a split between Empyreals and campers, but it's never clear why.In the end, the book is good, the story engaging, the MC is likeable. The mythos is engaging and makes me want to know more as well.A very good first offering and I'm keen for more.Oh my, this is so good I read the blurb. Mortal Kombat meets Harry Potter. Well, this was a lot more exciting than Harry Potter. I was warned that I wouldn't be able to put it down. It's 2 am. Still enough time for some sleep before work tomorrow. I loved the detail in the combats. How the MC moved his energy. The combats and other energy things were just enough and not any more. The same went for the story telling. It was simple enough to make reading effortless. I would have liked just a bit more description of his friends. This definitely was a book where I hit the end and went Wow! I hope that I have conveyed enough to validate my enthusiastic recommendation of the book. I consider this on par and maybe a smidge better than Rogue Dungeon, another Shadow Alley press book that is on my read this first list. Ok, I'll read the next Cradle first but this was darn close. I hope the next one of these fulfills what this one promised.Great start for the young, honor hungry hero. This story is not the typical weakling overcoming the school yard bully. Jace is a young man that has a physical ailment that he constantly struggles with just to make himself try to do the simple tasks his peers do everyday. His whole life seems to be a mystery as he attempts to understand how his family had become dishonored and exiled. His very weakness enables him to become the hero the world does not quite know it needs. The challenge will be overcoming the traps, schemes, and dark alliances his adversaries both apparent and concealed have in store for his journey to completion. I, for one, am looking forward to the next chapters of the story to be unveiled.There are some grammatical errors (spelling and punctuation), so I hope the editors catch more of them in the next book. There were not so many that it caused me to lose focus and continue with the story; therefore, I still gave it a five star rating since it is the first in the series.
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