#4,210 in Literature & fiction books
Use arrows to jump to the previous/next product
Reddit mentions of A Promise of Fire (The Kingmaker Chronicles Book 1)
Sentiment score: 1
Reddit mentions: 1
We found 1 Reddit mentions of A Promise of Fire (The Kingmaker Chronicles Book 1). Here are the top ones.
or
- FREE TO PLAY dungeon crawler RPG & CCG in one game
- JOURNEY through over 100 replayable adventures
- BATTLE in dynamic fights with a tactical phase
- COLLECT zillion creatures and demons of six elements
- CUSTOMIZE your army deck to gain a strategic edge
- MASTER Arenas and ASCEND PvP Leaderboards
- OBTAIN rare artifacts and EVOLVE your heroes
- UPGRADE your heroes in battles and improve them with Marks
- ENJOY stunning hi-res parallax graphics
- GET new characters and dungeons in free updates
Features:
Specs:
| Release date | August 2016 |
Books on the brain this week.
So it follows that "super cranky, bitter, disenfranchised, pain-in-the-ass girl who doesn't care about her appearance snags the hottest hunk around" trope, which I'm growing weary of, but there was this really interesting hierarchical structure that absolutely smacked of RP. All of the nationals are ruled by Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta rulers.
The main male character, Griffin, is this tall, muscular, smart, competent, ruthless-in-battle-but-emotionally-tender archetype, and he's the Beta ruler of his country, while his sister is Alpha (though he's the one who fought to get her there... obviously a power move to win the hearts of the locals). Kind of interesting to see the perfect blend of what RPWi would call alpha/beta traits in him, even as he fits into a governing structure that literally uses alpha/beta/etc. labels.
What's also fascinating is the degree to which "amused mastery" is part of who he is. The main female character is a total pain in the ass: constantly trying to fight him, hit him, run away, call him names, tell him he's stupid, etc. To be fair, he did kidnap her, and she is a hot political commodity, but even when it becomes clear that it's for the best and all parties benefit from it (and that he has, of course, developed a deep romantic interest in her), she is just insufferably stubborn, and yet, through it all, he is unflappable. He does not kowtow to her juvenile behavior.
Anyway. That's all. I love identifying RP and BP patterns in literature. Even though it's not consistent with the praxeology because it's at the mercy of the author, it's fascinating to see the author's views trickle into their work.