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Epoka wojny

Michael J. Sullivan

4.35 AVERAGE

whatellisreadnext's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious tense 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

It's hard to explain the feeling of these books. They're cosy whilst also being so fascinating. The stakes are extremely high, I'm talking the humans fighting back against Elves they once thought were Gods. The characterisation is so vivid that you can't help but become attached to everyone. This is book three of six of The First Empire, but the ending to the first trilogy. The beauty of them is how easy they are to follow, so if you're looking to get into high fantasy, grab yourself Age of Myth, you won't regret it💃

strangeness's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous dark emotional funny reflective sad tense 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

amanda_violet's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous dark emotional sad 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: No

stellathereader's review against another edition

4.5

Nearly perfection.

The GREAT:
- The characters are really starting to stand out. Tesh and Brin. 🥲
- Roan continues to be amazing. The female characters are all multi-faceted. I'm obsessed.
- Compared to the previous books, the pacing was much improved. The last two books really built up to this big conflict.
- Michael J Sullivan manages to keep track of the huge cast of characters, and allow time for each of them to shine. It is so refreshing.

The minute details:
- The ending feels a little rushed. The payoff didn't really match the 3-book build up. But I'm very excited for the rest of the series.
- It took me way too long to warm up to Raithe. And I'm afraid I warmed up to him too late.

roguette's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Bawled my eyes out.

Love the descriptions of how weapons are made. So much detail has gone into the world building.

webz's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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: Complicated

I’m not sure where to begin with describing this book. It was incredible. Everything and more that I have wanted to see as of late in fantasy. I had quite a decent amount of favorite moments but eventually I just stopped worrying about writing them all down and focused on enjoying the story.
Some pretty big things happened here.

Raithe understanding and forgiving his father. Roan killing Iver for a second time. Roan at the end with Gifford finally touching him in the form of a tight embrace made me cry. That reunion was perfect. There were so many more moments but it’s hard to name them all. Did I like that Persephone’s goodbye to Raithe included saying she hated him? No. But it made sense and makes her an even more compelling character. She seems that much more real and round. Alive and breathing.

Despite saying I stopped noting down stand out moments and scenes, here are a few that I did put down that I really wanted to make a note of:

I always want to point out the attention to detail with description because I absolutely love that Michael Sullivan takes the time to do that. Here is a great one on page 13:

The Crescent Forest revealed itself in its formal gown of deep summer green. By contrast, the fields that skirted it were bright gold with speckles of orange, yellow, and purple. Birds were swooping low, bees darting, and above it all, bright, white puffy clouds drifted without a care.

I want to be transported into a book and descriptions like this really help me to get into the story and be ground the world.

I can’t think of a much more satisfying scene then the one where Nyphron goes to Alon Rhist and brings the Instarya to his side. My interest in his character definitely grew from there with how great his speech was and how he was able to persuade the Instarya.

Well my opinion of Nyphron just plummeted with the reveal of him killing the Druyens.

Brin’s first meeting with Tesh was pretty entertaining. It was fun hearing her inner dialogue and it definitely reminded me of the teenage experience.

I loved seeing Raith and Suri connect. The scene where they both remind each other of people (or a wolf in Suri’s case) they have lost was touching.

Throughout reading this book I am happy that I enjoyed it so much so that my focus was on the story rather than on getting through the book. I still like to track where I am in the book on Goodreads but my focus is in enjoying the story.

Page 214
“Where are you going, Giff? Habet asked in a groggy voice.
“He’s going to save mankind,” Padera replied.
“Okay.” Habet turned over and went back to sleep.

This review probably seems all over the place but it seems a bit impossible to make something that was so chock full of plot, character, story and heart, concise and tied up pretty in a bow. That definitely seems impossible. It is an amazing story, this is my favorite book I have read in the series so far, and I can’t wait to read more from Sullivan.