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Paternus: Berserker

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Paternus: Berserker

By: Dyrk Ashton
Narrated by: Nik Magill
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Berserker is a stand-alone short story, framed as a missing chapter from Paternus, the urban fantasy, mythic fiction novel, by Dyrk Ashton. It tells of the time when one of the characters finally met his father, many centuries ago.

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I have listened to A lot of audible books and I have A lot of books. I love to read. I enjoy to listen especially fantasy audiobooks and sometimes a book comes along that blows your mind this series does exactly that thank you

to the author thank you I love this series

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Very enjoyable read. The attention to detail and blend of various myths brings the story to life. Frequent thoughts of, "wow, that connection makes sense," abound while reading. Great job once again, Dyrk!

Love Dyrk's books! Incredible research and lore!

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This is not a stand-alone story in my opinion. I have already read the first book of the trilogy and I still find his story a little confusing. Although I did have an epiphany listening to this story, and I don't know if posting my guess about the plot would be a Spoiler; but I promise I've not heard or read anything but Berserker and book 1.

Still you may not want to read further, my kids say I have a gift for this:
I think it's pretty obvious at this point that father has got to be killed or delt with in a very final way. He has out-lived his usefulness (sounds harsh but I'm thinking on a geological / evolutions scale not morality scale) and he is very sick. Nature culls the herd. This work embraces the physical worlds laws inasmuch as it wants too- so that, to me is what I feel will happen. I like father so it sucks but a HEA with him bringing about a new day having slain all evil firstborn is so unlikely had it been reality this author would not have had so many edgy author endorsements, ie Jim Butcher, ECT.
...and he is tired... he is so very tired. He feels emotions stronger than humans who live such short lives yet he is over 4 billion years old!!? Give the guy a break Mr Supreme Whoever You Are; oh, I mean author. lol
Now I have such a low score on this story because of an ongoing confusing manner of writing, for example when the author list all the many names a river, a person, or another 1st or 3rd born has been called throughout the Epoc ...argh it just overwhelms my brain and instead of bringing about a sense of awe at the largeness of it all it brings confusion. like...wtf is he talking about?... especially when pertaining to all the different storys, fairy tails, belief systems. regions that are not even history but fiction ...it is just too too much. this is a great writing tactic that has just been overused in this series.
It is, so far, a GREAT series. This story not withstanding I highly recommend the 1st book!

Not a stand alone.

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