There’s a drunken king with a knack for knives a bumbling old gay wizard and a vicious force of nature who has spent over a decade frozen in stone. After Saga frontman Gabriel’s daughter finds her life at risk, Clay and Gabe try to get the band back together. Clay Cooper is a retired member of the most famous mercenary band of all time-Saga. The basic concept of the book is a re-imagining of a DnD style world, where mercenaries are equivalent to rock stars. I think that’s part of the reason why I fell in love with it.

There doesn’t always have to be a good, justifiable reason for some of the events in the story, those events are there because they are fun. I’ve said it previously on Twitter, but Kings of the Wyld is one of those rare books that doesn’t take itself too seriously. It is brilliant, it is entirely unique, and it is definitely the best book you’ve read in ages. Whatever the reason, you pick it up, you read it, and you curse yourself for a fool. Maybe you’ve seen a particularly positive review, or you’ve spotted the spine glaring at you from its cell on the bookcase. “I’ll get to it later,” you say, and still the months pass you by. “It’s brilliant,” someone says, “and entirely unique. The months go by, and the reviews pile up. You hear a lot about a book, and so you buy it. I’m sure you a few of you have been in similar situations before… I’ve owned the paperback for a good 7-8 months, and it unfortunately spent the majority of that time in Bookcase Hell. This was one of those books that came at just the right time for me.

Then an ex-bandmate turns up at Clay’s door with a plea for help–the kind of mission that only the very brave or the very stupid would sign up for. Their glory days long past, the mercs have grown apart and grown old, fat, drunk, or a combination of the three. A retired group of legendary warriors must get the band back together for one last seemingly impossible mission in this rousing debut epic fantasy.Ĭlay Cooper and his band were once the best of the best, the most feared and renowned crew of mercenaries this side of the Heartwyld.

Kings of the wyld