I admit that the cover art compelled me to buy this book. I struggled with the Mistborn-like magic system but, despite thinking I wouldn't, I started to get into the story. I like Taniel, I think Ka-Poel is brilliant - a mute with plenty of dialogue nicely done. All in all it was good. To bring i...
I will say I did enjoy this book. Much like the first book, this did have a lot of...oh let's say familiar characters and places from other novels such as the mention of a large chain across a river. Dispite the similarities it is it's own story and a good one at that. Very fast paced, exciting a...
Brian McClellan’s debut novel, Promise of Blood, shows epic promise. One of the most well targeted complaints against it, however, is that the female characters are poorly drawn and tangential to the main story. This includes Vlora, who exists in Promise of Blood primarily to set up Taniel’s st...
Lovely little story set in the world of The Powder Mage. The main character is one of Tamas's captains - Verundish - whose husband threatens to sell their daughter into slavery if she doesn't give him divorce, something she cannot do due to personal and religious reasons. She thinks the only way ...
Aside from the abysmal narration of the audio version of this novella, I enjoyed it quite a bit. This is the first of a series of novellas that preclude the Powder mage series and deals with Erica's first encounters with other powder mages and smuggling them into Adipest. It introduces us to an e...