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The Price of Honor (Minotaurs of Algoron)

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In The Price of Honor Pah'Min's father disgraces the family stealing all their honor. Pah'min as young minotaur at the time is left bereft until offered a spot in the most reviled house in his city. He accepts as a way to regain his honor in his own eyes and serve his Empress even if the rest of the city will hate him and consider him without honor.

Given the task to infiltrate the enemy city and make sure they are not able to attack without warning he lives a complete life in his cover. He has a wife, child, and is sponsored to a job of relative importance. The story then takes off with him having to warn his Empress of the plans to attack her city and destroy all that live there.

*slight spoiler*

This story has a lot of great action sequences from small scale duels to large scale battles between armies. The biggest issue I found was that Pah'Min is a berserker and when he enters that state he is totally unstoppable. He also has almost no control over when he goes berserk so pretty much every fight with him goes that way, but there is still enough emotional turmoil to add some reality to the character.

Gus Gallows really knows how to develop a story in a unique and suspensful fashion. The story of The Price of Honor is a gripping fantasy in the true sense of fantasy, adventure and intrigue. For an up-and-coming author, this is an impressive start to what wil hopefully be a long career... because I want to read more of this terrific material.