• Blood Ties

  • Book 1 of the Blood War Chronicles (Volume 1)
  • By: Quincy J. Allen
  • Narrated by: Charles Kahlenberg
  • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (16 ratings)

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Blood Ties

By: Quincy J. Allen
Narrated by: Charles Kahlenberg
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Publisher's summary

Clockwork gunslingers. Chinese assassins. A world of magic. The Blood War Chronicles.

When assassins jump half-clockwork gunslinger Jake Lasater, he knows the Chinese Tong wants to finally settle an old score. Unfortunately, Jake has no idea the Tong is just the first milepost on the road toward a destiny he refuses to believe in. With his riding partner, Cole McJunkins, in tow and his ward, Skeeter, secretly hidden away, Jake squares off against a deadly clockwork mercenary from his past and a troop of crazed European soldiers who want him dead. Add an insane emperor with knowledge of Jake’s past and a mysterious noblewoman who desperately needs his help - and Jake is faced with a whole mess of trouble, with no end in sight.

Blood Ties launches an epic saga that spans worlds and threatens the human race itself.

©2015 Quincy J. Allen (P)2018 WordFire Press LLC

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“Prepare for shocks, grit, and a voice you’ll want to read forever.” (Number one New York Times best-selling Author Sherrilyn Kenyon)

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Something for EVERYONE!

Quincy J Allen really is masterful at Cross-Genre Fiction. This book really has something for everyone. Like westerns? It's for you. Like Action? It's for you. Steam Punk? Sci-Fi? Magic? Assassins? It's for each of you too!!! and so much more. This book is action packed with well written and performed fight sequence after fight sequence. And the writing!?!? The writing is just... Solid... Really top notch.

First time listening to Charles Kahlenberg. Enjoyed the performance, the character voice choices where distinct, consistent and very well done. The tone and pacing for the narration was very fitting for the way the book was written.

Overall!!! A very superb book. I cant wait for the future Volume's in this series...

If you read all that and are still on the fence then you must not like good books... just sayin!

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Steampunk Fantasy

A fun adventure full of Steampunk and fantasy, magic trickling all around, and two gunslingers fresh out of the civil war. I notice a lot of steampunk seems to take place near the Civil War, and it always makes for an interesting read. The two main characters were developed nicely. They each had their own struggles and backstory that fit well with the plot. The plot got a bit messy from time to time, with the main characters never really knowing what was going on. It kept a puzzle in your head to try and figure it all out. The narrator did a good job with this one, and this book paints a good picture for book 1 in a series. I'm looking forward to checking out the rest!

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Pretty awful.

Written from a formula and read like a bad play. It was like the author had a checklist before him and he ticked off one requirement after another until the list was empty. I might have been able to keep going with it had it not been for the narration, which sounded like the old Disney nature shows, but more stilted and halting. Going to return it.

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