This is a fast-paced, excellently written, and extremely enjoyable fantasy story. Tours and gigs in this world usually mean destroying monsters or almighty foes for a fee. Saga do not get up on stage and play amazingly atmospheric renditions of November Rain. He is this world's equivalent of a keyboard player after all. The Saga members each have distinctive weapons (Blackheart, Vellichor, Syrinx.) for their tours and gigs, some of which even hold legendary status and in addition, Moog the magician and my favourite character has a magical hat. Much like an 80's metal band, the individuals flaunt and worship their instruments. perhaps even made me feel as if I was in the crew myself. This juxtaposition made me really empathise with and root for these guys. Every individual in the band has had more than ten lifetimes worth of horrors, confrontations, and sometimes heartbreaking moments. Moog is the only person over the age of eight who believes in Owlbears! It isn't all humour and bags-of-laughs though, otherwise this wouldn't have made me care as much if I thought that I was following the adventures of five comedians. Such conversation is usually along the lines of how they have aged, are stupidly drunk, have gotten fat and occasionally the humour is just caused by certain individuals downright weirdness. The main positives to me in this narrative were the brilliant humour throughout which makes Kings of the Wyld a hell of a lot of fun and also the main ensemble that we follow, the way that they have been excellently crafted and their "friendly" banter. However bizarre that all seemed to Clay - his once best friend and former band mate pathetically pleaded to him, stating that "it's time to get the band back together." And so it begins… The task proposed being completely preposterous. The news which Gabriel presented to him was harrowing. He had approached Clay because he truly believed that there were no other options. Then, Clay Cooper receives a knock on his door from the band's ex-frontman Gabriel who looks aghast, dishevelled and like a ghost of his former self. Essentially, everyone throughout the lands of Grandual knew the tales of this crew's awe-inspiring exploits when they tackled the unbelievable dangers in the notorious Heartwyld but that was nineteen years ago… Bards' sang their praises, ladies wanted their babies, and children wanted to emulate them. Saga were a world famous band containing five legendary mercenaries who were feared, respected and completely admired. I would like to thank Nicholas Eames, Nazia, and Orbit Books. I received a free copy of Kings of the Wyld in exchange for an honest review.
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