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    Orconomics: The Dark Profit Saga, #1

    By J. Zachary Pike

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    About this ebook

    A disgraced Dwarven hero. A band of deadbeat adventurers. His last shot at redemption could get him killed.

    If Gorm Ingerson really wanted to drink himself to death, he never should have helped the Goblin. When his good deed lands him in a bad contract, Gorm finds himself entangled in a quest that will pit him against business magnates, the king of the Freedlands, and a mad goddess trying to fulfill a suicidal prophecy.

    But Gorm's tarnished circumstances may be hiding a golden opportunity. If he and his half-baked party can overcome deep conspiracies and dark magics, he just might redeem himself and his career enough to be a professional hero once more.

    Orconomics: A Satire is the first book in The Dark Profit Saga, a trilogy so funny it's epic. If you like down-and-out heroes, sidesplitting misadventures, and ingenious world-building, then you'll love J. Zachary Pike's dark and delightful ribbing of high fantasy.

    Buy Orconomics to join the campaign for a high-energy, hilarious fantasy adventure today!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJ. Zachary Pike
    Release dateOct 1, 2016
    ISBN9780990859604
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    • 5/5
      I thought I'd like this book when I saw the cover and read the title. Now that I've read it, I know I was wrong -- I LOVE this book.This is a saga about professional heroing. That's right. The hero business has gone pro. You can even buy and sell hoard futures -- the chance that a given hoard will produce great loot. There's heroing contracts. And guilds. And accountants. And so many other fun little details. But the most important of those are the NPCs -- the former enemies of light who have gotten themselves papers and are now employed by the light and no longer attackable. It calls into question just what is a villain and what is a hero.The story centers around a group of unwilling adventures variously "convinced", by blackmail, bribery or any other means necessary to take a quest for an unlucky goddess. They're a motley bunch -- the experienced members are drunks and cowards and the inexperienced members are just as likely to get them all killed as to get themselves killed. Somehow they blunder their way to success, only to discover that this is only the beginning of the true heroing.A marvelous adventure and fun besides.
    • 2/5
      Something tells me that if I was not a World of Warcraft player, I might find this book interesting. Because that's what this book is. World of Warcraft. Imagine that all the NPC characters, and the actual players were in real life, doing quests, running dungeons. Being Orcs and Trolls and Gnomes. Like its their job to do quests and such.

      If I didn't play WoW, this might appeal to me. But as it is, It bores me to tears. Because I've played WoW for so long, that it actually bores me to tears; well, until the expansion comes out anyway. But I digress. The real reason this book sucks isn't that its just a WoW story. It sucks because it just isn't an interesting WoW story. Nothing happens that anyone would care about.

      I'm pretty sure there is WoW fanfic that's 10 times more interesting than this book. So, fuck Orconomics in its dirty stinking Orc butthole. Because any fucking retard can write a more interesting story than this stupid book. There, I said it.
    • 5/5
      Surprisingly good. Highly recommended.