Genre: Fantasy/Sword and Sorcery/Humorous/Adventure
Description:
“They call him Kradak, but his friends call him Steve.
He's big and strong - an actor who plays a hero named Kradak in a
series of B-movies.
When Rista and Grint come through the portal from Arkana, they don't
understand what a movie is. They think Steve truly is Kradak the Champion.
They kidnap him and take him back to Arkana to help them save their
world. Once they discover the truth, it is too late. The portal is closed.
Steve needs to become a hero. The fate of two worlds hangs in the balance.
Rista of the Blade is a strong woman whose beauty is only surpassed by
her skill in battle.
Grint is a shapeshifting goblin with a tendency toward being
sarcastic.
Do they make the perfect team? Or will the bickering be their undoing?
Mythology comes alive in Arkana, where Cyclops, Rock Titans, Trolls,
and magic swords really exist.”
Author:
“Shawn hails from Mossyrock, Washington--the setting for his first two
books, Feels Like the First Time, and
Both Sides Now.”
Shawn says he “learned everything he knows by having 400 different
jobs, give or take a few… He is married to his high school sweetheart, Dawn. No
one is sure why she puts up with him, as she once suffered a serious eye sprain
when she rolled her eyes once too often at one of his ‘jokes.’"
Feel free to follow Shawn Inmon on Facebook.
Appraisal:
Steve Montross, the actor who plays a hero named Kradak in a series of
B-movies, knows his career is taking a slow nosedive. After the premiere of his
latest movie in a multiplex on the outskirts on Los Angeles, he meets a couple female
fans. One a petite buxom blonde named Grint. The other was tall, athletic,
elegant, and named Rista. Steve feels lucky and invites them to his condo for
drinks. The women stealthily add a knockout powder to Steve’s drink and haul
him off to the portal to take Kradak back to their home planet, Arkana, because
they need a hero to stop the darkness from devouring their planet. They
actually believe Steve is the real hero Kradak, they don’t understand that
Kradak is a role Steve plays on screen. All the heroic feats and adventures are
make-believe. When Steve awakens he insists this is all a huge practical joke
being pulled on him, until the adventure turns deadly.
Rista decides they will have to turn Kradak into the hero they need
him to be to save Arkana from the encroaching darkness. The characters which
inhabit Arkana are diverse, some are human like with differing talents, and
some without. Then there is Grint, he is the shapeshifting goblin who was the
buxom blonde who urged Steve to invite them back to his condo back home on
earth.
Their trek is slow since they are traveling by foot, and there are
twists that send the small group in a different direction, often for a good
cause. Other times their path led them into mortifying situations. At long last
they are finally in the town to meet the guide who will take them up to the monastery
that keeps Lumina, the magic sword Kradak needs to battle the darkness. A huge
wrench is thrown in the mix. Steve is angry and confused, and now he is wondering
if he is even on the right side of this fight or not.
Kradak
the Champion is the first book in this series and the
foundation has been set up for the real quest to begin. To find and stop Mikol who created this vast
darkness. I felt like this book came to a satisfying conclusion.
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FYI:
Kradak
the Champion is book 1 in Shawn Inmon’s, An Arkana Sword and
Sorcery Adventure.
Format/Typo
Issues:
No
significant issues.
Rating:
**** Four Stars
Reviewed
by: ?wazithinkin
Approximate
word count: 95-100,000 words
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