A Time of Dread: 1 (Of Blood & Bone)

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I don’t necessarily consider it an improvement because I loved both styles: I loved following many characters and seeing things fall into place in the first series but I also loved the quicker pacing and easiness to follow in this series! I recommend this book to anyone who loves fantasy, excellent world building, great characters and excellent storytelling. I would however, strongly encourage everyone to read the Faithful and the Fallen at some point because the series is just amazing! A Time of Dread is a breathtaking beginning to what will surely be another utterly brilliant series by John Gwynne.

They've spent generations uniting the nations and tracking the remaining forces of the grotesque and scarily powerful Kadoshim, their Eternal enemy.At the edges of the known world, the Kadoshim are gathering their numbers and are devising a deadly plan to strike back. Their house in the Desolation, in Kergard, has been their home for longer than any other place, but unfortunately that doesn’t remain true. There was quite a bit of inference, at the end of the Faithful and the Fallen series, that the Ben Elim planned to set themselves up as the saviors – they wanted to rule all the lands after taking down the Kadoshim forces with Corban.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. If she's not reading, you can expect her to be bullet journaling, playing video games, or streaming a show. A Time of Dread is part creature feature, and part investigative fantasy thriller as each of the leading characters are made witness to the terrible events brought to bear around them. As for the world that these characters are presented in - it is much the same and yet much changed from what we came to know in tFatF.I will say that I asked John on Goodreads how many books will be in this series and he said he intends for it to be a trilogy and that really shocked me, to be honest. For those of you who’d read and loved The Faithful and the Fallen, this book will feel all the more like a precious gift, with a huge sentimental value! This felt like a bad thing when I was reading it because I couldn't help but compare it to the first one that had a much more sprawling, world shattering plot.

So that means fewer characters, fewer places and the events connect the characters pretty fast which is cool! Do know however that it’s not only the new characters that stole the spotlight in the book; some characters from Gwynne’s previous series do make an appearance here. First of all is that before, when the Faithful and the Fallen series was told, there were many different countries and that did not remain the same. Speaking of characters: for me, the driving force of a compelling book depends hugely on its characters.Certainly, it seems harder to find book that awaken that elusive 'Sense of Wonder' or the need to turn pages despite what the numbers on the clock say.

Comparisons are inevitable and having the task of writing characters that can hold up to the love you have for those who came before is not one I envy any author. In the south, Riv, a young, tempestuous soldier, discovers a deadly rift within the Ben-Elim themselves. This was darker, easier to follow with fewer places and characters but it has the same great writing and pacing! While it still can be seen as a battle between Good and Evil, you will encounter a few factions whose intentions are not entirely clear and aside from a few exceptions, you will be seriously questioning some key characters’ intentions.This includes things like graphic content (blood, gore, torture, murder, rape), and explicit sexual content. I liked how his arc showed what everyday life was like in Dressel and how the new threat on the horizon was affecting the Ben-Elim, it showed their long-term goals also in terms of the human tribes and how they are trying to control all of them. of the characters are new and likewise, I think previous readers will enjoy it 10% more with prior knowledge and past experiences yet that's not to say new readers won't be engrossed and blown away too. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. It's within this subtle and shifting moral landscape where Gwynne really shines, never opting for the easy answers.