If you are looking for light reading, you will want to find something else instead. This is a pretty dark series, so be prepared for that. What there also is, is a lot of character death. In addition to giants, the prophecy, and the plot devices Treasures, there are some talking ravens (among many other loyal and lovable animal companions) and various forms of “elemental magic.” The magic isn’t ever built up in a hard magic system, but it’s never super influential to the plot either, so that’s not really a problem at any point. There’s not much magic this is mostly a large-scale military conflict saga.
A lot of the point-of-view characters seem unrelated at first, but as the story continues, their paths come together in various ways, some predictable, some surprising. There’s a bunch of other point-of-view characters, among them friends, family, and allies of Corban and Nathair, as well as a few of their enemies.
Our primary protagonists are Corban, a blacksmith’s son, who lives in the kingdom of Ardan, and Veradis, first sword to High Prince Nathair. Elyon’s avatar will be called The Bright Star, and Asroth’s avatar will the called The Black Sun. There’s a prophecy lurking at the corners saying that an avatar of Elyon - the god of creation, the good guy - will fight an avatar of Asroth - the god of destruction, the bad guy. The Faithful and the Fallen takes place in the Banished Lands, a continent divided into several kingdoms populated primarily by humans, with clans of giants living at the fringes. It’s an incredible turnaround, and most definitely worth the wait however, if you don’t want to suffer through that 250-page beginning, at the end of my review I’m including a summary of events that I wrote as things were starting to pick up so that you can skip straight to the part where it gets amazing. But it’s pretty narrowly only good at this, so you have to really want that.Īfter a dreadfully boring first 250 pages of Malice, The Faithful and the Fallen turns into an amazingly action-packed, emotional, and tense epic fantasy saga that I couldn’t put down. Recommend: It’s great at what it does - epic low fantasy battle action. Wrath - Backlist, Revenge, Cat squasher, Forest setting.Ruin - Backlist, Revenge, Cat squasher, Forest setting.Valor - Backlist, Revenge, Cat squasher, Forest setting.Malice - Backlist, Cat squasher, Forest setting, Debut.
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