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A worthy sidequest. Looking forward to book 3.
Audiobook from Brilliance AudioNarrated by Luke DanielsLength: ~3.5 hoursNote: This book is available individually (as I listened to it) or as a part of the book SideQuest Adventures No. 1, which includes The Lion in Chains, this story, and The Shield-Maiden: A Foreworld SideQuest.As with The Lion in Chains, this story is a "sidequest" in the Foreworld Saga, basically a side story to the main-line books intended to give readers more information on certain characters. Unfortunately, unlike The Li...
Mark Teppo’s The Beast of Calatrava is one of the “sidequest” stories associated with the FOREWORLD SAGA universe shared by Neal Stephenson, Greg Bear, Mark Teppo, and others. (Bill recently reviewed the novels in the series.)This story is set in the Iberian Peninsula during the Reconquista. The Knights of the Templar have arrived to cleanse the land of the Muslims who took the region twenty years earlier. Ramiro Ibáñez de Tolosa, a former knight who was grossly disfigured in that losing battle,...
I like that the SideQuests move around the world, this one set in Iberia. The Beast was a cool, well written character for a short story. Good one all around.
Another short novella set in the "Foreworld" or Mongoliad universe. But outside the mention of the Shield Brethren not really connected to that storyline in any way. But one of the main POV characters, a staple of how the Foreworld series is written, has a connection to a couple of surprise characters near the end of The Lion in Chains. The two main character, one the titled Beast of Calatrava a former knight turned murderer of Moors with a heavily scarred face, and a man who travels as a monk w...
3.5 stars Originally posted at FanLit.Mark Teppo’s The Beast of Calatrava is one of the “sidequest” stories associated with the FOREWORLD SAGA universe shared by Neal Stephenson, Greg Bear, Mark Teppo, and others. (Bill recently reviewed the novels in the series.)This story is set in the Iberian Peninsula during the Reconquista. The Knights of the Templar have arrived to cleanse the land of the Muslims who took the region twenty years earlier. Ramiro Ibáñez de Tolosa, a former knight who was gro...
Another really engrossing prequel to the Foreworld saga. These are tough stories, and totally amazing to read.
