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Product Details

  • Hardcover: 496 pages
  • Publisher: Gallery Books (October 14, 2014)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1451679319
  • ISBN-13: 978-1451679311
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.4 x 9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (33 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsA Fantasy War With Vietnam Overtones
By William Bentrim VINE VOICE on October 14, 2014
Format: Hardcover
One of the things I like about Chris Evans is his wonderful titles, I last said this several years ago when I reviewed Ashes of Black Frost. I highly recommend that you read both The Light of Burning Shadows and Darkness Formed in Fire and the previous mentioned Ashes. The Iron Elves trilogy was excellent. Evans did not let me down with this book. A fantasy based on the Vietnam War was almost a bit too much reality. Fire breathing dragons become much more intense when associated in your mind with napalm. This book focuses on an embattled kingdom mired in a foreign conflict with little support from home. Sound familiar?

The characters and scenarios were vivid and gritty. Illustrating the depth of passion for your squad over more nebulous ideals such as religion or patriotism was masterfully done by Evans. The frustration and despair of the Vietnam era was not just read but felt.

"Anything for the greater good" is an amazingly frightening motto that is reflected all to often in justification for events that appall normal people.

This wasn't just a good story, it was a tangible reminder of what the "boots on the ground" go through in any conflict regardless of it's purported value.

How many times and in how many ways has it been said that if those who made the decisions to go to war were the ones that actually had to fight the war, there would be so much less war?

I don't care what your political beliefs may be, none of us should ever downplay the sacrifices that our kids, our troops, make for us. Right or wrong they are our siblings, parents or progeny and must be respected for what they do. Which admittedly digresses from my review.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsVietnam war in a fantasy world viewed through the eyes of simple soldiers.
By Elena Linville on October 17, 2014
Format: Kindle Edition
Stars: 5 out of 5

I am in love with this book and I'm not afraid to admit it. Vietnam War meets a fantasy world? It could have crashed and burned if it had been poorly executed. Fortunately for me, Chris Evans pulled this off masterfully, and the end result is a book that I found very hard to put down.

The premise Of Bone and Thunder is quite simple: the Kingdom is waging war in Luitox, a strange tropical land full of "savages" that the brave army of the Kingdom came to liberate from the Forrest Collective. That's the official story anyway, but to most of the characters in this book, that propaganda is irrelevant. What matters to them is whether they will live to see another day and whether their squad will make it out alive as well.

I loved the fact that the author didn't go into rhetorics or political explanations of this war in the Lux. Instead, he chose to tell this story through the eyes of regular soldiers, those forced to fight and die for ideals they don't understand in a land that is absolutely foreign to them, against an enemy that knows the terrain and can literally disappear at will.

There isn't one single protagonist in this book. We follow several characters instead. There is Carny, a young crossbowman and his fellow soldiers from the Red Shield. The young thaum Jawn, who arrives to the Lux full of ideals and dreams of glory which are soon shattered against the gory reality of war. Obsidian flock leader Vorly and his thaum Breeze who fly real fire-breathing dragons called rags. And several other unique characters.

We see the war through their eyes; we follow them from simple skirmish to battle to desperate fight for survival, and we see them change. And that's the biggest strength of this book.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsAmazing fantasy war novel
By Lulu on November 2, 2014
Format: Kindle Edition
This book was absolutely amazing, though I do believe the comparison to Lord of the Rings is a bit misleading. Whereas Lord of the Rings focuses on the macro image of war and the struggle between good and evil, Of Bone and Thunder focuses on war at the micro level, taking a look at the toll it takes on the participants who have little time to sit and philosophize over the morality of war or good and evil as they try to survive. It is much more Apocalypse Now, mixed with hints of Heart of Darkness. The parallel to the Vietnam War is overwhelming, but presented with enough fantastical elements that it doesn’t stray out of the fantasy genre and into purely war and military fiction. Weapons are traditional, without a single firearm. There are wizards and dragons and elementalists/magicians with the ability to manipulate energies (called thaums.) Dragons supply air travel to the troops and firepower from the air.

Readers are thrust into the middle of a war that should have been won ages ago, according to main public of the Kingdom. We meet solider Carnan “Carny” Qillibrin, a crossbowman desperate to leave the jungle and beginning to tire of the war. He and his fellow soldiers have been climbing through the mountainside jungle in search of the enemy, natives of Luitox whom the soldiers call Slyts. We follow his unit through the war and through their losses. It feels frighteningly real and Evans did an amazing job capturing the feelings of anger, futility, and despondency, but also the sense of camaraderie and responsibility that begins to form between completely people from completely different upbringings due to battle.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsIf you enjoyed "Platoon" or a " A Reckoning for Kings" by ...

Very entertaining, Vietnam type conflict, set in an alternate universe with magic. Started a little slow but couldn't put it down before long. Gritty and realistic. Read more

Published 1 month ago by psl
2.0 out of 5 starsNot much going for it

Many reviewers before me have stated that this is a fantasy take on an asymmetric war, a.k.a. Vietnam. That's an interesting proposition so I was intrigued and bought this book. Read more

Published 2 months ago by egelz
4.0 out of 5 starsGood page turner!

Best Vietnam War fantasy novel I have read. Good stuff.

Published 2 months ago by Amazon Customer
5.0 out of 5 stars...captures the disillusionment of war !

Chris Evans is a military historian and “Of Bone and Thunder” is a commentary on the Vietnam War, in fact, it is dedicated to Vietnam veterans. Read more

Published 7 months ago by JT
5.0 out of 5 starsF*ck the LOKAM!

Solid read. If you enjoyed Steven Erikson or Glenn Cook, pick this up. If this isn't already becoming a series, it should.

Published 9 months ago by Roshan Chopra
4.0 out of 5 starsA true form of unique writing talent!

Of Bone and Thunder
By: Chris Evens
Published By: Gallery Books
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Reviewed By: tk

Politics started this war. Read more

Published 9 months ago by doseofbella
5.0 out of 5 starsVery new and original. A well written story about ...

Very new and original.
A well written story about the brotherhood of battle in a world where dragons are aircraft and crossbows are rifles. A daringly successful innovation.

Published 9 months ago by Joel
5.0 out of 5 starsOutstanding! Vietnam with Dragons and now and arrows!

Wow
Totally caught me off guard and sucked me. It happened so fast I wasn't almost done by the time I realized I needed a breather.
I won't tell you the story. Read more

Published 12 months ago by Kindle Customer
5.0 out of 5 starsbeautifully rendered allegorical tribute to Vietnam era, brilliant...

beautifully rendered allegorical tribute to Vietnam era, brilliant world-making, characters that grab you, thinking about next chapter before you're done

Published 14 months ago by R. Short
4.0 out of 5 starsAmazing but Could Have Better Pacing

[Full disclosure: I requested and received a free ebook through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Read more

Published 15 months ago by The Mad Reviewer

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