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Empires rise, civilisations fall and one culture comes to subsume another. It's the way of the world . . . sometimes ways of life are improved, sometimes they are not. But the progression of change…
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The best fantasy novel you’ve probably never heard of! British author and screenwriter Chris Wooding has been cranking out top-quality material for years, and he’s only just hitting his peak with the ongoing Darkwater Legacy series beginning with this book.
I love how this multi-POV ensemble cast masterpiece takes the best of traditional black-and-white fantasy and combines it with the best of modern shades-of-grey fantasy. With a large and quirky cast of heroes on a thrilling quest to liberate the world from an evil empire, it’s about as close as I’ve found to Final Fantasy in novel form. The characters…
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