THE STEEL REMAINS by Richard K. Morgan - No Spoiler Review (A Land Fit for Heroes)
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- THE STEEL REMAINS by Richard K. Morgan - No Spoiler Review (A Land Fit for Heroes)
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The Steel Remains by Richard K. Morgan, book one in the A Land Fit for Heroes Trilogy, is a book I had on my must read for 2021. The Steel Remains by Richard K. Morgan is one of the first books you see on recommended list for Grim Dark fans. Joe Abercrombie has recommended this for grim dark fans and I can totally see why. The Steel Remains by Richard K. Morgan is a genre bending, trope busting, rollercoaster of a time and gets A Land Fit For Heroes off to a wild start. I hope you enjoy this no spoiler review of The Steel Remains by Richard K. Morgan
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What are your top grim dark recommendations?
The Broken Sword by Poul Anderson. Published in 1954. Better described as a prelude to grimdark.
@@afantasybabble6222 wonderful! I'll check it out
As a gay dude who's grown tired of the typical heteronormative dynamic in fantasy novels, I finally found a fantasy novel with a gay lead and discovered your review through it. And I'm glad to have found both! The book is ordered and I'm subscribed to your channel 😌
I'm so glad you found the channel and enjoyed the book! 😃
So cool to find this review, thank you. I'm just about to go into the second book now.
@@isitme enjoy! Thanks for stopping by to watch
Great review! I came to the realization that I don't mind grim dark in movies or tv shows, but I def don't enjoy it as much while reading. Glad you had a good time with this one!
Thank you!
This is high on my TBR for 2022, thanks for the great review.
My pleasure mate
Forgot i had this book about to start it today 👌🏻
Very nice in depth review! I had similar likes and dislikes that you had with this book, but likewise to you found enough to continue on.
Did book 2&3 satisfy?
The generic sword hilt on the cover did not entice me but then you said aliens. 👀 I just might have to check it out! Very thoughtful review, it's always nice to hear about books I haven't seen talked about anywhere else.
Thank you Maddy 😁
Great review Jimmy! It sounds so interesting, I can’t believe I haven’t heard about it anywhere else, I’d love to get to this at some point in 2022 🤘
It's a wild experience 😂
I went into this book pretty blind. I downloaded it after watching Mark's review onto my kindle but didn't read it but started this morning and that first paragraph set the hook in my brain. Just wanted to see what The Nutt thought.
I knew nothing of the premise, so this sounds very interesting to me I will have to try it out sometime
I'd love to hear your thoughts!
Really surprising. Loved all three of these. Read them a couple of times. Ballsy and brutal.
They're definitely distinct and I could see people loving these
Really liked this series, going to have to do a reread one of these days.
Good to hear!
Hi great review video! Have a wonderful Christmas 🎄🍁📚☃️ happy reading to u!! 📚📓
Happy holidays!
I haven't read this, in fact I'm on my way to my local shop to buy it thanks to your review!
But if you like this kind of story telling, backstory and alternative history/fantasy, then you absolutely need to check out Robert E Howards stuff. Conan, Solomon Kane and Kull for example, but I'm guessing that you're already familiar with his work.
I've also heard people comparing The Steel Remains to Howards way of writing, so this is gonna be a fun read for me :)
I definitely do want to read Conan
@@thefantasynuttwork Don't hesitate, do it! You won't regret it.
Even my girlfriend who has never read or even been interested in Fantasy is now loving Conan and the other works of Robert E Howard :)
Great review 👌
I remember a couple months after reading it, I bumped my rating up a star. Mostly because I found myself thinking about it alot and kept seeming more impressive.
Morgan is a straight up Wordsmith. But not exactly easy to read at times. Not just the graphic nature but like you mentioned, the strange slipping in and out of narratives and stuff that leaves you kinda disoriented.
Thanks my dude!
Morgan is one of the most unique authors I've come across, the way he forms sentences and slips in and out of different time periods is nothing my brain could ever formulate haha. Have you read his sci-fi stuff?
@@thefantasynuttwork not yet, but altered carbon is high on my list
@@slowlyred2082 I'm likely to give it a shot. Feel like a dystopian sci-fi would match his style a lot
Thanks for the review man! Marks review turned me onto this author even though I had read the first altered carbon years and years ago but didn't remember the author. But wanted another review just to test the waters a bit more. Also just for shits and giggles I slowed down the playback speed to 0.75 and it sounds legit normal talking. Lmfao
I talk really fast hahah
I've read the whole trilogy a while ago, and enjoyed it very much, excepting some things: There's just SO MUCH that's built up but not followed through on that's had me really curious, and I just don't like that :D Also there's alot of confusing scenes you pretty much can't understand, at least not on first read. But other than that, it's an amazing story with great feeling, action, daring scenes and controversy.
It's certainly unique!
I remember listening to the audiobook and liking this a lot. Some of the violence was very harsh and deserving of the 'grim dark' title. Did Archeth have two named daggers? Or was that something else. Hmm. I need to read this and then finish the series.
I only recall the named sword
I really enjoyed this series and I don't often see other people talking about it, so instant click for me!
It does get extremely dark and characters do things I wouldn't want them to do, but that 's part of why I enjoy these books. I have heard this series is even better if you have previously read Morgan's other series, but I enjoyed them just fine without.
I have heard that as well, wouldn't mind trying his other stuff down the road!
I really enjoyed the first book bit DNF'ed the second one. I like grimdark and I love Morgan's prose, but this series eventually got so grim and dark it became unpleasant. I liked Gil initially but he ends up doing things that made me despise him. :( Which is a shame, I'm HBTQ myself and he was a fresh air in terms of representation in the fantasy genre... Hm. This video has made me consider giving the second book a second chance, actually.
I'm struggling with book two at the moment as well
Grimdark yasssssss!!!! Let us have it😎
Here it is 😎
@@thefantasynuttwork you have ruined me...in the best way🤗
I’m interested
Sweet!
An epic fantasy with a gay main character AND he's a barbarian, I'm totally down! Where did you find this unicorn of a book?
It's on many top grim dark lists 😁
Ringil is most definitely the highlight of the trilogy thus far (about 60% through Book 2).
I finished book 2 today, think that's gonna be the last one for me unfortunately
@@thefantasynuttwork just not feeling it ?
@@thatsci-firogue yeah it's pretty unfortunate. I still love the premise but I really didn't care for much of anything that happened in book 2. I really struggled with Egar chapters for some reason. I definitely still could see people enjoying it though
@@thefantasynuttwork I get you, honestly Egar isn't doing much for me either. I like him but he's no Ringil or Archeth. Merry Christmas Jimmy!
@@thatsci-firogue merry Christmas ☃️
DNFed this many many years ago . The premise is good . The execution is just unpleasant.
I wouldn't blame anyone for that. Tbh I'm about 75% through book two and may DNF it. My appreciation for the premise, history and Gil aren't enough to keep me going right now
A bad dude with a big ass sword?!??!!
Contact with aliens?!?!!
Dothraki like cultures?!!!??
Disgusting Combat?!?!
Comrades of the gallows type?!?!!
Sold!
Great Review Jimmy!!
Hahah thanks!
Oh, one of my most unpleasant reader's experiences. Unfortunately, because the mix of subjects and plot were interesting and unusual. For personal reasons I like sf and fantasy books with queer characters. At first glance the book was good but later... my oh my. It was very dark level of dark and, in addition, pretty unpleasant moment of my life and the world situation in general. I felt very uneasy during the second part of this book, started the second one... and left it after less than 50 pages.
Yeah I ended up finishing book 2 but will not continue, unfortunately I just didn't vibe with this series