/lit/ - Literature

>>11132888
Got Orcs on Audible. It's the first three books in one. Which means either each of these three are rather short or The Final Empire and Promise of Blood are rather long, because those two books and this collection are both about 24 hours long.

Finished the first book and already into the second. Pretty interesting so far. Though the text never showing orcs being truly monstrous and humans as being the main source of problems for the setting is kinda annoying. I get it, these orcs aren't Always Chaotic Evil monsters, but come the fuck on. At this point it seems like the myths humans made about the orcs being monsters were made up out of thin air.

And I'm sorry, but I've never liked stories that just completely shit on humans either. I guess I'm a bit of species chauvinist that way.

I also wasn't expecting how magical realm this story could get at times. It doesn't happen often, but holy shit, the third chapter had the evil sorceress raping a guy (not a "fade to black" either, it describes the whole thing), and I swear a later chapter mentioned her using a unicorn's horn as a dildo.

I'm not a huge fan of the religious conflict in the story. I'm sorry, but the Unis just sound like the author is an edgy teenager who lived in a oppressively religious household and having broken away from the faith is using this book to piss all over Christianity. I'm a hard Atheist, so it's not like I'm a fan of any religion, but it gets a bit heavy-handed at times.

Oh, and I wish the Unis wore a color other than black. Small thing, but when you hear for the twentieth time "They were dressed in black" you start praying they put some other colors into their wardrobe.