The Cursed

There is definitely juvenile nonsense and gross prejudices within these stories. This story moves aimlessly and without a direction and the immortal soldier lets the world happen to him as it unfolds. That's the essence of reality and that's part of the compelling nature to these novellas.......more

This is another in the Casca series. After reading 17, this book doesn't break any new ground and is about the Boxer Rebellion which is largely forgotten today. I only know a little about it, what little I recall from High School. That said, the book was quite dull and monotonous. It was quite a slog......more

One of the bloodiest volumes in this series that I've read so far. Most have a lot of action in them but this one had a substantial amount of gore. Casca is generally an antihero but he is particularly so in this book as he allows the rape and slaughter of women and children toward the end of the bo......more

The 18th book in the Casca series puts the eternal warrior into the ranks of the 42nd British Regiment until he kills an officer who kills a whore Casca favored. He is caught and offered a suicide mission or the gallows. He ends up fighting on the side of the Boxers during their turn of the last cen......more

So you just a soldier doing your job. You shove a spear tip into the side of this supposed messiah, except he is the real thing. He curses you to wander the earth till his return. Not bad right, immortality and all. Oh but he also curses you to be a soldier forever at war, never to know peace. This......more