I enjoyed this book far more than I thought I would and I don't know why I held off reading it for so long. Promise of Blood is a military fantasy filled with political intrigue and not a little magic. It has everything I like in it, an engaging plot that's full of believable twists and turns, char...
My Thoughts The world in this novel was divided between two kinds of magic users: Privileged & Powder Mages. While the limitations of what Powder Mages could do and could not do were clearly described, the author left the Privileged's extent of power in murky waters. That is why, whenever they pul...
DNF. French Revolution with magic and gods. But unlike Django Wexler, McClellan changes almost nothing about the revolution, so there are not clever twists on various characters. Tamiel (I think, god keeping these characters straight was a challenge) is Napoleon. Nothing clever or witty about the pr...
Despite the number of friends that has reviewed this book favourably, it only really came to my attention when my book club decided to read it. I was immediately intrigued by the premise and I'm glad I decided to read along. "The Age of Kings is dead and I have killed it" Starting right at the...
"" The Age of Kings is dead . . . and I have killed it."" Since I've been rolling in high fantasy for a little over a week, I took the risk of picking up the pre-novellas of The Powder Mage series. Lo and behold, the novellas captured my attention. After going through all the pre-novellas, six of t...
I love epic fantasy. I also want to love epic fantasy. See, a lot of epic fantasy is purely awful. Turgid prose, clunky infodumping, one-dimensional characters that are so filled with wish-fulfillment that their violet eyes glow. Writing good fantasy is not easy. It is just as hard as writing any ...
Some epic fantasies try too hard to be fantastical. Too many characters, too many weird names, too much rambling detail. Others don't try hard enough to be awesome. They settle for using the same old types and tropes that we are all comfortable with. They are content to be average. Unfortunately...
I quite liked the world, the types of magic, and the political/coup plot. And I'd definitely like to know more about Ka-poel, about the Predeii, the cook's role, what Tamas will do, and so on.On the other hand, I just couldn't push myself to care more about the characters. Perhaps I would have had, ...
I bought the book when it was available crazy cheap. While I had heard of it before I was never interested. But I ended up liking this book a lot. Good writing, nice story, grippingly told.
I don’t even know where to start with this book. I guess I’ll begin somewhat slow, because that’s how the book started. The world McClellan created is right where I want it to be when reading fantasy. It has enough, and not too much. I can keep track of everything without feeling like I need to ta...
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