BUT.From acclaimed fantasy author John Gwynne comes the first in the Bloodsworn trilogy, an epic of wild lands and wilder magic, where not all monsters fight with tooth and claw.and the treasures of the gods come at a price.Īfter the old gods warred and drove themselves to extinction, the cataclysm of their fall shattered the land of Vigrio. I can't recommend this one because I wish I'd stopped reading. I came for the prophecy, I stayed for the prophecy and ultimately I was let down by predictable plotting. The chapters were choppy and the POV changes became so frequent they were annoying. That's not how life works and that's not how fiction should work. Only everything ended exactly as I predicted and every hero conveniently got to face their own nemesis. Hundreds of pages that don't really matter and then an explosive final battle. Of course, there was once again a slow start and a slow middle, only for the finale to be explosive. It also had a few twists and turns I didn't expect. Now Ruin has a shocking emotional ending, which made it necessary for me to pick up the final book. However, the last 150 pages almost made up for that again.įair enough. I waited for a surprise, but there was none. The development of the prophecy was predictable. Female characters that felt like they were just there, so there's something besides spitting and grunting men.
Hundreds and hundreds of pages that were moving at a glacial pace. In Valor the author repeated the same thing. The pacing is slow, and it takes a while for the story to get going.but the last 150 pages or so are pretty darn good. The writing felt a bit wooden, and the characters not all that developed, and everyone now and then I wondered if I was reading a history book instead of a work of fiction.
It wasn't immediately clear which character plays which role in the prophecy and that plus angels, fallen angels and a war between gods sounded exciting. Malice introduced a prophecy, and it was the prophecy that made me stick around. Perhaps, I shouldn't have read to the end.but after 3 books, I decided I want to finish. I'm not the biggest fan of The Faithful and the Fallen series, and I think in the end I'll give it somewhere between 2.5 and 3 stars.
I'm also glad that this is not the end of the Banished Lands and I'm really curious to see how the Banished Lands will be affected by the outcome here, because the world we are left with after the ending here, is not the same as it was when this series started. It gave me everything I wanted, and things I didn't know that I wanted. However there was one death that disappointed me a little but overall, Wrath is an incredible book, and ending, to this series. Most of them felt like good deaths, that the characters did their duty, and I was for the most part satisfied by their endings (even when I cried like cracy). Despite all the characters dying, I loved the ending. I don't remember when I cried this much last. Wrath was by far the most emotional book for me in this series. It gets bloody and you will be saying goodbye to some of your favorite characters, because there are a lot of deaths in this one. would be able to gather enough allies to continue on with the fighting, and the short answer is yes, and they did so in the most amazing way. After Ruin I was very interested to see how the next book was going to go, and if Corban and co.