Books like this are what we need to have us reflect on our lives and also adjust wherever we may be lagging.
Books like this are what we need to have us reflect on our lives and also adjust wherever we may be lagging.
Despite the many descriptions, fantasy fiction is more systematic nowadays than imagined. There is a form to the chaos and various categories for each shade of sanity and madness.
This book gave off the feeling of an old English movie even as the characters came alive in my subconscious as I read.
With several pages devoted to world-building and action, The Prophet of Edan exceeds its prequel in both scope and depth.
What we think is a simple war between two empires turns out to be a massive crusade involving several realms and gods.
The Black Farm is a refreshing and unique take on purgatory and the afterlife; savage and vicious but full of human carnage, evils, and conceits.
The sequel to Black Stone Heart offers epic battle scenes and a more thorough explanation of various magics involved as he continues to remember his past life
The science, though wondrous, is quite fluid and feels really intuitive. Even though it's fiction, the writing style is very good, and the immersive telling of the villain is atmospheric.
I got a yellow highlighter to mark my favourite quotes, and at some point, I felt that the entire book would be soaking with the yellow ink.
Another thing I enjoyed was discovering the origin of the name Nameless Republic. I chuckled and gave Suyi an invisible high-five. Àgbà Ìwé!
Every character evolves or dies meaningfully, and not just for the meaningless aim of character development.
What would traditional fantasy be without a physical/metaphysical struggle between the forces of good and evil?
