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4.35 AVERAGE
4.35 AVERAGE
Ryan Cahill might be the one of the most and fastest improving authors, and Of War and Ruin is jumping up the the top of my list.
After only starting this series at the end of July, I wasted absolutely no time in continuing in The Bound And The Broken series by immediately diving into the next book, Of Darkness And Light.
"There is nothing more important in the darkness than a ray of light."
I have massively enjoyed The Fall and Of Blood And Fire, however, I feel like Ryan Cahill’s second novel in the series has really taken this series to a new level. You can see when reading this book that Cahill has become a lot more confident in his writing and story-telling and this allows Of Darkness And Light to become a truly epic fantasy. While Of Blood And Fire was very familiar to any reader of fantasy using many well-known tropes, this book really breaks free from those tropes and becomes something new and exciting.
“There are demons within us all that we must face. They only ever surface when we are at our lowest because they are not strong enough to challenge us at our highest."
Of Darkness And Light picks up almost immediately after the events of the first novel and immediately we are thrust into the heat of battle. From there we get to explore every corner of Epheria in an epic, fast-paced and multi-threaded story with the addition of numerous new POV characters allowing us to really delve into the world that Cahill has created here. Kallinvar and Dayne were two particular new POVs that I massively enjoyed reading. Cahill’s characterisation across the vast cast in this novel is strong and he really brings highlight to the pain that each character has felt and how it has shaped them in different ways.
“Being sorry soothes nothing but your own ego, brother. Be better.”
As I reached the end of the book I was desperate to keep going with the story and I absolutely cannot wait until the next novel in the series is released - at least in the meantime I have another novella of The Bound And Broken series, The Exile, to keep me going. I really do absolutely love this series and would thoroughly recommend it to any fans of fantasy.
9.5/10