The Will of the Many by James Islington scratched the Red Rising itch (one of my all time favorites). I thoroughly enjoyed Islington’s Licanius Trilogy, but this kicks off a brand new type of story. Typically, I am not a fan of “school-like” settings, but the maturity of the characters, the world-building, the magic system, and the political intrigue were so on point!
At the elite Catenan Academy, where students are prepared as the future leaders of the Hierarchy empire, the curriculum reveals a layered set of mysteries which turn murderous in this new fantasy by bestselling author of The Licanius Trilogy, James Islington.
Vis, the adopted son of Magnus Quintus Ulcisor, a prominent senator within the Hierarchy, is trained to enter the famed Catenan Academy to help Ulciscor learn what the hidden agenda is of the remote island academy. Secretly, he also wants Vis to discover what happed to his brother who died at the academy. He's sure the current Principalis of…
This was a book where I enjoyed the ride, but the ending was so fantastic that it still sticks with my all these months later. The first of the Greatcoats Quartet, Traitors’s Blade was a powerful read about honor and commitment to righteousness during the dark times of tyranny.
When every noble is a tyrant and every knight is a thug, the only thing you can really trust is a traitor's blade. The Three Musketeers meets Joe Abercrombie via Mark Lawrence: 'Guaranteed to increase household swashbuckling by 100%,' says Library Journal
The Greatcoats - legendary heroes, arbiters of justice . . . or notorious traitors?
The Greatcoats are travelling magistrates bringing justice to all . . . or at least they were, before they watched the Dukes impale their King's head on a spike. Now the land's heroes are reviled as traitors, their Greatcoats in tatters.
Brandon Sanderson never ceases to showcase how different “heroes” can look. This book might exemplify that best as he concludes the second era of the Mistborn series. It deals with some deep emotional traumas with light hearted comic-relief while building upon the ever-expanding universe of the cosmere.
Return to #1 New York Times bestseller Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn world of Scadrial as its second era, which began with The Alloy of Law, comes to its earth-shattering conclusion in The Lost Metal.
For years, frontier lawman turned big-city senator Waxillium Ladrian has hunted the shadowy organization the Set―with his late uncle and his sister among their leaders―since they started kidnapping people with the power of Allomancy in their bloodlines. When Detective Marasi Colms and her partner Wayne find stockpiled weapons bound for the Outer City of Bilming, this opens a new lead. Conflict between Elendel and the Outer Cities…
Blood magic. Betrayal. Rebellion. Two sisters on opposite sides must unite to survive. Or watch their world fall to ruin.
"Divided, ruin will reign."
That was what the Order preached to unite the people against the undying—the same mantra the rebels used to rally against the Skeleton King’s tyrannical rule.
But for estranged sisters Threyna and Laela, forced unity might be even more disastrous than division.
Ten years after losing everything, Threyna is now a hardened rebel. After acquiring the Skeleton King’s cursed blood magic, she has vowed to overthrow his corrupt rule, even if it costs her soul. Laela, once her ally, has abandoned the doomed rebellion, preparing to lead a mass exodus from the cursed island in search of new beginnings.
But even with blood magic, if Threyna is to defeat the Skeleton King and his legions, she will need the aid of Laela and her people. Now reunited, with legionaries bearing down on them and the undying impeding their every step, the two sisters must overcome their painful past. Yet whether they fight or flee, they must do so together.
