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This is the epic tale of a world trying to stop the rise of the Wyrms (think: fire-breathing dragons) after 1000 years of banishment below the seas. It is told through the eyes of several characters — a lord doomed by a childhood friendship, a court outsider with a secret, a dragon-rider with a rebellious streak, a banished alchemist determined to return home — and
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This second book in the Broken Earth Trilogy doesn’t pack the same punch as the first one, but it is still quite good. Essun now lives in the underground settlement of Castrima. She still wants to find her daughter Nassun, but the oncoming Season makes this nearly impossible. But in Castrima she has found Alabaster, the man who broke the world, who was her teacher,
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It’s been a long time since I read a fantasy novel like this. The Fifth Season is the first of a trilogy, so don’t expect a complete story here. It took me a little while to get into, because there is a lot of world building. The world of this story is not like our own. There is one single continent, full of “comms” that
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Book #43 was Darksong Rising, the third book in L.E. Modesitt’s Spellsong Cycle series. This was pretty good. I was surprised how easily I was able to fall back into the series, because it’s been several years since I read the first two. I haven’t been reading much fantasy, so this was a nice change of pace. Book count: 43 Pages in book: 512 Page
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