“This man has done nothing to you,” Indra said. Beneath her tough exterior, however, is a kind and moral person. Indra’s prowess in battle is superb, and she always exudes an attitude of fierce determination. She hails from an order of elite knights and is determined to slay an abomination by herself. Though he’s always willing to serve his king, he never ceases to imagine the life he might have had.īut behind all the awkwardness and jitters, Wulfric recognized a spark of something in the boy’s eyes – a keen intellectual curiosity that he remembered once burning within himself as a young man, before war had made it a luxury to be swept aside.īut it’s young Indra who steals the show. He’s reputable for being “ the man who saved King Alfred’s life and turned the tide at the Battle of Ethandun, and with it the entire war against the Norse.” A stalwart man of integrity, Wulfric’s actions as a soldier weigh heavily on his conscience.
Wulfric prefers a quiet life filled with simple pleasures, but his natural skill with a sword leads him down a different life path. Blood spewed from the pikeman’s neck as the beast tossed his lifeless body aside. He let out a strangled, gurgling cry, muffled when another fat, wet tentacle wrapped around his face and tore his head from his neck. Before he could retreat, the tentacle coiled around his waist and squeezed, crushing the man’s ribs. roared and lashed out with a tentacle that wrapped around the staff of the closest pike and pulled, bringing the pikeman along with it. After about five pages of exposition, the story shifts and readers are suddenly launched into an action-packed, deliciously violent, emotional tale. When a learned priest deciphers the scrolls and releases nightmare creatures known as abominations, Wulfric barely has time to settle into a comfortable life before King Alfred calls upon him again – this time to fight the demonic scourge before it wipes out the human race.Ībomination opens in an unassuming manner by introducing readers to the details of Alfred the Great’s efforts to save his kingdom from the Viking invasion. In the midst of repairing destruction caused by the war, a cache of ancient scrolls is discovered, scrolls written in an arcane form of Latin. It is 880 AD, and Wulfric has aided Alfred the Great in saving the kingdom from a Viking invasion. Click here to watch a video review of this book on my channel, From Beginning to Bookend.
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