You need to sign in or sign up before continuing.

4.06 AVERAGE

dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

This was quite the fun read! Excellent cast of characters, fascinating world/magic system and a whole lot of mystery and intrigue. Normally dont love time traveling/seeing the future type stuff but it was done well and sparingly here. Very interested to see how things go in the series moving forward and super curious to
get a perspective from a “big bad” character who seems to be trying to change himself for the better. Very unique setup!!
adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Expand filter menu Content Warnings
adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

This book took some time but I actually am interested in what is happening. However , i still have some many questions!!!! 
adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

I LOVED IT but also can a book have more than 4 female characters :((( like Asha was one of the main characters, and then in the background/side characters there was barely 3 more. While there were 20+ men. 

The plot twists killed me
adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

any book that is 600+ pages should have a reason, and this has many: immense world building, fully realized and complex characters, intriguing plot, etc. there was always something that kept me reading the next chapter

also, a really exciting and understandable magic system. can’t wait to continue this trilogy.
adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Just know that I don’t 
 
books
 
5
 stars very often unless I plan on rereading them. 
 
is
 
so
 
immersive
 
that
 
you
 have to pay attention to everything going on in this book. This is not a book that you can just breeze over in a weekend, you actually have to think about it. You have to take notes. There are things that James Islandton puts in this book that’ll make you think about it and then when they finally 
 
you’ll
 
be
 
like holy shit he did that  17 chapters ago and he brought it up just now buckle up for this ride y’all it’s amazing.
This book is definitely for people who want extremely well thought out books, epic fantasy style with an understandable, magic system, political intrigue, torque forces, and just unbelievable character development
adventurous challenging dark mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous dark tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
adventurous mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Enjoyable characters, world building and plot