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Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2018

More of the same. Wow, do Blaise and Thatcher get around. Yes, this one was scruffy (could use some editing). The stories and vignettes were very well done. I would have liked to see some more stories regarding adding women into the mix.

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Jake Schneider

but the author needs a better editor; small mistakes such as "there/their/they're" creep in ...

Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2017

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I would have given it 4 stars, but the author needs a better editor; small mistakes such as "there/their/they're" creep in repeatedly, which is probably a result of him doing a large part of the writing from an iPad between home and work.

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Shaven Wookiee

A very grimdark but totally British war story...

Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2017

My god this was brutal! And bloody brilliant! The same black british humour is more pronounced in this second book, with Blaise Maximillian and his ever-present Colour Sergeant Bill Thatcher by his side, fighting an alternate World War One, where the Germans are winning, and bizarre dieselpunk devices are slowly making their way to the battlefield, but with typically horrific results. The action is solid, on a par with the Black Library's Warhammer 40,000 novels, the plot is harsh (to the characters) and brutal, with enough surprises to make you wonder if the protagonists will survive, even halfway through the book. Maximillian and Thatcher themselves are as foul-mouthed and brilliantly executed as ever, with even some of the cracks showing through at their circumstances. This is a gritty, realistic look at an alternate timeline, and like the first book you truly feel like you're in there with the British soldiers fighting against the Germans! Can't recommend this and the author highly enough. I need to go lie down.

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D. Guymer

and everything that I loved about that first instalment (the grit

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 14, 2016

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This book is the sequel to Blaise Maximillian: Bitter Defeat, and everything that I loved about that first instalment (the grit, the guts, the bit where Blaise accidentally tips off a German's head and makes me, a grimdark fantasy writer myself, feel ill) is still here. It's just better. While Bitter Defeat read as a collection of connected shorts spread across a period of time this book felt more like a single uninterrupted narrative and was stronger for that. Also, there's just the general sense that an author whose really getting to grips with his craft had moved things up a gear. A great read.

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Shaven Wookiee

Brutal, Brilliant, and British!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 8, 2017

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My god this was brutal! And bloody brilliant! The same black british humour is more pronounced in this second book, with Blaise Maximillian and his ever-present Colour Sergeant Bill Thatcher by his side, fighting an alternate World War One, where the Germans are winning, and bizarre dieselpunk devices are slowly making their way to the battlefield, but with typically horrific results. The action is solid, on a par with the Black Library's Warhammer 40,000 novels, the plot is harsh (to the characters) and brutal, with enough surprises to make you wonder if the protagonists will survive, even halfway through the book. Maximillian and Thatcher themselves are as foul-mouthed and brilliantly executed as ever, with even some of the cracks showing through at their circumstances. This is a gritty, realistic look at an alternate timeline, and like the first book you truly feel like you're in there with the British soldiers fighting against the Germans! Can't recommend this and the author highly enough. I need to go lie down.

Pete Knifton

Blood, Guts and Blaise.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 30, 2017

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The good: An excellent read peopled with great characters, human, flawed and genuinely worth the reader's affection.
The setting is a Hellish war zone, at once familiar but skewed into a nightmare alternative reality.
The bad: There are countless spelling mistakes and missing words, it's like the book has not been proofread.
Still, it's a cracking read!

Kindle Customer

As good as the first book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 7, 2018

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Another great story, cannot wait for the next one. Highly original. Different but stylish and I could not put down, finished in a day

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R. MOORE

Good stuff

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 17, 2017

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A great follow up to the first book, good to read the further adventures of Blaise, Thatcher etc.

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