Get It Now The Blood Tartan (Quest Of The Five Clans #1) Devised By Raymond St. Elmo Presented As Digital Format

this up on a whim from a reddit suggestion, and glad I did, Surprisingly good writing carries the book while you wait for the story to get started, by which point you're in love with the characters and it becomes a pageturner through the next couple of books.


In hindsight the story was not remarkable, but Raymond writes so beautifully in this first installment of his series that I'd have been quite content to read anything he offered.
This was an absolutely insane fever dream of a novel, and I bloody damn loved it,

The prose is beautiful and lyrical and gorgeous, without being purple in my humble opinion, The pace is fast and action filled seriously, how many times canperson fight others A lot, The characters are well developed through their actions,

Rayne was a fun protag who is always getting into some new kind of trouble whether it's his fault, or not.
Usually not. We follow him as he gets a bounty put on his head, gets declared dead, and discovers some vamp friends.


Just so enjoyable, I liked it more than I ever thought I would, This book doesn't contain anthropomorphic animals wearing kilts as it may seem from the cover, but there are some supernatural elements to it which I won't spoil.
The story is told in firstperson point of view by a spadassin fighter/assassin with a conscience, His storytelling is very poetic  and this is one book that I'd rather not have converted into a movie because we'd be missing out on all the intricate wordplay.
However, watching the fight scenes and the interaction between Rayne and the vicious Blood Tartan clan would make for excellent entertainment.
Great book on its own and a creative lead into the rest of the series, I'm hooked. Absolutely enthralling. Picked this up on a whim and because it was on sale and had an absolute blast reading it.
It felt like a mad fever dream that didnt subside until I had hitcompletion, The prose and use of language were superb without being overbearing or too purple, Breezed through the first book and decided to buy the rest of the series because it was just that good! Highly recommended! A truly strange and enjoyable book.


I'm slightly torn on this one, but overall I did really enjoy my time reading it.
Some of the major developments of the story I felt were glossed over a bit and I would've appreciated learning a little more about the world's history and also Rayne's character development, to better understand why he makes some of the choices he does.


That being said, I found the book superbly written, The narrative voice from Rayne Gray's POV was perfectly done and really transports the reader into his headspace through the use of specific vocabulary, turns of phrase, and humor.
Every page was a joy to read, The storyline itself didn't fully grip me though I don't have any real complaints about it either, but the writing style was enough to keep me hooked and wanting to return to the book.


The story clips along at a nice pace, hopping around to varied locales, It's an engaging, fun pace that never gets dragged down in any boring or dour scenes, Through and through this novel is always fun and a bit odd in a good way,

The story ends in a surprising place, and as I briefly mentioned I would've liked a bit more development as to why we end up here, but perhaps that will be explored in future books in the series, since there's clearly much more story awaiting Rayne.
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The Blood Tartan, It is wonderful.

RSTE can write, His style is unlike anybody elses,

Imaginative, ingenious, and quirky, full of surprises, His parallel worlds overlap the natural world, He knows his Blake and is no stranger to razors, specifically Occams,

What can I say He makes you laugh and cry simultaneously, His mad characters sweep up fantastic imagery and his pointyeared boys recite poetical marvels, After reading The Blood Tartan: Quest of the Five Clans, I was left with one thought, Actually, I was left with lots of thoughts, but this one really stuck out,

What the hell is a spadassin

According to Wiktionary, its a French word for an Italian word which in English translates to either a swordsman or a bully.
Leave it to a linguist to come up with that one,

Regardless, I guess I have to vote for both choices, Not a problem, actually. Because Rayne Grey is a lot of one and a bit of the other, Just to make things clear, hes a lot of a swordsman, And yes, a bit of a bully, but like the rest of Raymond St, Elmos heroes, hes really more of a romantic, And as with the best of romantics, a bit of a fool besides, But only in the most delightfully foolish kind of way,

Having devoured every word of every story published by Mr, St. Elmo, I can proudly boast to being a very besotted fan, And as such, I am spoiled, Ive grown accustomed to poetic prose, laugh out loud humor, intriguing characters, and thoughtful romance, He never disappoints.

This story is no exception, It takes place in a world different than St, Elmos prior creations. There is no tie to the other stories, no key for the various, endearing versions of Clarence to use to unlock the heart of the always adored Kay/K/Cai.
No, here is a very different hero, A killer, but one with a few scruples, A character who kills without compunction yet champions the downtrodden and miserable poor souls of his adopted country.
This combination of casual brutality and social conscience he has given the spadassin, The Seraph, reminds me in many ways of Lloyd Alexanders Kestrel.
But this story is so much funnier,

The romance always present in St, Elmos fiction has also changeddarkened with remorse and regret, And yet, tenderness remains. How could it not It is, after all, a tale penned by a true romantic, And not in the bodice ripper kind of wayalthough there is fumbling with some irritating buttons and a gorgeous girl who cant seem to keep her clothes onbut I digress.


As always, the secondary characters try to steal the show and almost succeed, but in the end the narrator wins.


For he is, after all, a spadassin, Raymond St. Elmo command's words as his character Rayne wield's a blade, be it a short crude sword or a master fencer's foil.
I found myself pleasantly eyeing google a time or two for definitions, still spadassin eludes me sir, There is a not so suddle Shakespearean flourish with a swashbuckling poetic license found nowhere else, If there is a dilemma "twixt" this and a glittery vampire romance tale, my advice should be obvious by now.


Two quotes out of many:

"We leave each other to hear what music we can in the noise of life"

"He had a cup beside him, half full.
Or it had him beside it, half empty, " I was drawn to this book by the authors Reddit comments, They were quirky, sometimes insane, but always flowery and I knew that if he wrote books the way he did Reddit comments that I had to check him out.


Boy am I glad that I did, If you like fun, quirky novels then you

will love this, The author does an incredible job putting you in the surely mad mind of its protagonist, and it's all up hill from there.
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