Reddit Reddit reviews The Whirlwind in the Thorn Tree (The Outlaw King Book 1)

We found 10 Reddit comments about The Whirlwind in the Thorn Tree (The Outlaw King Book 1). Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.

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10 Reddit comments about The Whirlwind in the Thorn Tree (The Outlaw King Book 1):

u/AuthorSAHunt · 23 pointsr/Fantasy

In lieu of the usual stiff promo spiel, I'm just going to list the cool shit in my series like the bullet points on a kitchen appliance.

  • Dimensional-travel via Russian Roulette

  • A U.S. government conspiracy using an MKULTRA-style program to rip writers' minds open to access the fantasy worlds in their heads like pearls in oysters

  • Dragonlike sea-serpents that hover along over the ocean like flying fish

  • Gunslingers that can see in Matrix slow-motion thanks to a hallucinatory spider-shaped fungus that grows on their amygdala

  • A henchman with no face that rides in a tornado and sends people to Hell

  • A plot to destroy the multiverse by summoning an Elder God to tear it to pieces

  • Pitfighting children like some kind of Fight Club of the Flies

  • Robot colossi that lumber around like AT-ATs and can only be killed by a cult of masked swordswomen that can tesseract and look like Tron lightbikes when they do it

  • A secondary character finds a Titanfall-inspired robot and stomps across a Dark Tower version of Westeros stepping on desperados

  • A tribe of zombie maniacs in black cloaks and ceramic dollface masks

  • All taking place in a wild-west parallel world invented by a G.R.R.Martin analogue character that's a gunslinging that's-just-your-opinion-man-so-go-fuck-yourself combination of The Dude and Rooster Cogburn

    The books have almost 200 reviews, four-fifths of them very positive, comparing the books to everything from King's Dark Tower to Martin's Song of Ice and Fire to Grossman's Magician series to Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane. Its ardent fans and supporters are making cosplays of the characters, ordering signed copies, and making TrueType fonts of the written languages in the book.

    Reading the books is almost as fun as writing them. It'd make my motherfuckin year if you came along with me.
u/chasercosplays · 6 pointsr/Fantasy

jumping on the Whirlwind in the Thorn Tree/Outlaw King train over here, it is literally my fav series of all time _ western, fantasy, sci-fi, action, adventure... a wonderful melting pot of genres all tied up with a little dark humor ribbon makes for an AMAZING package

u/JeffersonSmithAuthor · 6 pointsr/fantasywriters

Having grown up in the 70s and 80s, I'm pretty tired of the elves, dwarves, orcs, and humans motif. To me, the term "fantasy" means "realms of the utter fantastic." So by comparison to that, Tolkien-esque worlds feel utterly mundane and don't hold my interest without a major kick in the premise pants.

Similarly, I'm tired of the knee-deep swamps of vampire and werewolf cultures in urban fantasy. That's what appealed to me about S.A. Hunt's The Whirlwind in the Thorn Tree, or Christopher Ruz's Rust. Magical gunslingers fighting steam-powered mechs? Cool. An afterlife full of Lovecraftian nightmares? Awesome. Anything but more of the quasi-medieval hick-with-powers yarn.

Paradoxically, it seems to me that the very authors given greatest licence to explore the bizarre seem the most trapped by the history of what has come before. Myself included. Once I've finished my current series (later this year) my next project is going to kick the stops out of convention and hit the world with something really unusual. Or at least, I hope it will. I'm still working on the details.

u/JohnSV12 · 5 pointsr/scifi

The Whirlwind in the Thorn Tree also takes a western aesthetic and transports into a completely different genre, in this case it's a fantasy world.

It's a sort of fantasy/horror/western/drama if that makes any sense! Another parallel is the humour of the characters', which in both Whirlwind and Firefly really shine through.

I really recommend it: http://www.amazon.com/The-Whirlwind-Thorn-Tree-Outlaw-ebook/dp/B00BJCLMFU

Also - I saw someone recommend Farscape. Watch it, it's amazing.

u/ruzkin · 3 pointsr/Fantasy

I'm gonna stretch the rules and include some comics on this list:

  1. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. Perfect in tone, pacing, characters, exposition and humour.

  2. Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny. One of the greatest sci-fantasy epics of all time.

  3. The Outlaw King by S.A. Hunt. More sci-fantasy, but with the sort of trippy, psychological, anything-goes attitude that elevates it above most of the genre.

  4. Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis. Exceptional political satire contained inside in a painfully real near-future scifi wrapper. Ellis's best work, IMO.

  5. Saga by Brian K. Vaughan. Yeah, I have a soft spot for sci-fantasy, but this comic series is all about the characters, and every one of them is pure gold. Exceptional writing, great art, compelling storytelling. The complete package.
u/justamathnerd · 3 pointsr/Fantasy

I only read one fantasy book this month:

The Whirlwind in the Thorn Tree by /u/AuthorSAHunt was pretty enjoyable! It was obviously inspired by Stephen King's "The Dark Tower" Series, but it stood really well as its own story. I was really happy with it overall, but because of my own schedule, I didn't have a lot of time to read it, so it took me a long time. That combined with the slow pace at the beginning meant that it took some time for me to really get into it. The last third of the book really picked everything up, but the ending felt a little more like a chapter ending than a book ending - not a ton of closure, but a nice hook to keep on reading.

I'll definitely read the second book soon. Right now I'm finishing a small non-fantasy tour (finishing up with The Winter of Our Discontent) and so it may end up being a December or January book.

I encourage everyone to check it out! The first two books are free on Amazon!

u/JohnnyManzielf · 3 pointsr/Fantasy

If you have a kindle and are in the US, books 1 and 2 are cheap as dirt. The print price isn't too bad either.

I can't recommend this book enough to a person whose favorite series is The Dark Tower series. It's extremely well written, and you can't beat that price.

(I should probably get royalties for talking it up so much...)

u/CJBrightley · 2 pointsr/Fantasy

I'm not sure what you like, but I have some suggestions:

S. A. Hunt's The Whirlwind in the Thorntree is pretty fantastic. It's perma-free on Amazon and is the first in The Outlaw King series. I'm reading the second book now. Sam also happens to be a really nice guy and a fantastic cover designer (check out his website if you have a chance). The Outlaw King series is supposed to be an homage to Stephen King's Dark Tower series, but I haven't read it so I'm not sure how similar it is. I read it as incredibly creative, a little dark but not grimdark, and very addicting.

And I also write fantasy - my Erdemen Honor series is epic fantasy lite (no magic, just a different world). It's also more character-driven and written on a smaller scale than a lot of epic fantasy... it's epic in tone, but not scale, if that makes sense. That series starts with The King's Sword. I also have a dark, urban, Christian fantasy series in progress called A Long-Forgotten Song. Only the first book, Things Unseen, is out now, but the second will be out this fall.

The links go to Amazon, but my books are available at other online stores and I think Sam's are too. Also, I enabled DRM on Amazon when I published, but now I think DRM is just an annoyance. So if you want a DRM-free copy, just let me know.

u/FakeOrcaRape · 1 pointr/Fantasy

Oh this looks great! Wow, I have never heard of this this author. I have an Amazon gift card at home and going to buy this book and the first book in his Outlaw series.

I just bought a Kindle so my books to read researching techniques are in need of adjustment. However, if even half of the reviews for these Ebooks on Amazon are accurate/not inflated, then I will be happy.

u/i_am_randy · 1 pointr/TheDarkTower

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