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I was genuinely invested in the story and Kaleah's convictions and her quest to find the assassin who tried to kill her. Special thanks to the narrator, he knocked this out of the park, i really hope there will be another in the series it really deserves to shine in a sea of books now days. Instead he finds himself flailing from one worker class to the next, getting kicked out of every apprenticeship/job because he just sucks at everything. Tending the persnickety creatures and kowtowing to their arrogant riders is his last step before being demoted to the louse mines. The orange and blue on the armour of the shins and forearms to distinguish them is very bold rather than the dirty look of most of the others.
I know it looks slightly unnatural, but I can believe it is on a forward swing from over her left shoulder. The Earth-Bound are as ridiculous as The Demented and as empty-headed as The Empty if they think that there is a hope of reopening the portal to the olde world.Well in the end, the protagonist didn't try to sacrifice himself for the people that spat on him all his life. Clumsy and and always shuned by the highborns for his father's past, Tarkosi life is about to change and I mean possessively. That's extremely rare for a doorstopper that tops out at 600+ pages but honestly, it felt like the story just flew by because of the unbelievable action sequences that Estes and Galley so brilliantly and skillfully convey.
I especially liked the interactions between the main character and the demon in his body, very reminiscent of Venom. It’s filled with twists and turns, as well as separate plot lines that help to propel the story along, and I loved the open and somewhat cliffhangery ending.
The primary characters, both protagonal and antagonal, are fully fleshed out, complicated and fallible. This book was so incredibly intricate with immense world building, both beautiful and horrifying scenes and a bunch of misfit characters I absolutely adored. I’m not sure why I decided to purchase Demon’s Reign, first of the Bloodwood Saga, but whew, I’m glad I did!
His father is a disgrace, he was supposedly responsible for a lot of bullshit and ended up being murdered for his troubles, leaving his wife and kids alone in a world where they are now disliked because of him. Readers are introduced to the Swathe via Tarkosi Terelta, a third-born worker from a disgraced family in Shal Gara, capital bloodwood city of the Swathe. You can tell that the authors made it a priority to come up with a magic system that is both bold and takes chances but also fits within the world seamlessly and with the characters who wield it.People treating him like trash all his life because of a lie someone told, but he looks like he will rollover, and sacrifice himself like an idiot for them in the end. It is well written, kept me interested, made me have questions to excite me for book 2 and wasn’t something I felt I’ve seen a million times. The last two thirds of the book are still packed with world building, but also some incredibly epic fight scenes. I know Tarko was mad about being relegated to the role of "worker," but as a reader I was loving getting to learn about the jobs on the tree. He actually struggles with spell weaving even during the big battle and at no point in this book does it feel like he's super overpowered chosen one.
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