The Ember Blade: A breathtaking fantasy adventure (The Darkwater Legacy)

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Death of the Hypotenuse: Aren and Cade both begin to develop feelings for Fen. This triangle is resolved when Cade dies during the escape from Hammerholt. Chris Wooding grew up in a small town in Leicestershire, where not much of anything happened. So he started to write novels. He was sixteen when he completed his first. He had an agent by eighteen. By nineteen he had signed his first book deal. When he left university he began to write full-time, and he has been doing it professionally all his adult life. Suicide Mission: Garric’s true plan is not to steal the Ember Blade (he thinks it is impossible) but instead to smuggle a dozen barrels full of elarite oil into Hammerholt on the eve of the royal wedding and detonate them, killing himself, the Krodan crown prince, the Krodan high command in Ossia, and most of the wedding guests. He succeeds. A fantasy novel by Chris Wooding, author of the The Braided Path series, the Broken Sky series and The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray. It is the first of a planned trilogy called The Darkwater Legacy.

Following Aren and Cade from Shoal Point on their incredible journey was gripping. They were wonderfully written, with depth and complexity. Ghostly Goals: The ghosts that haunt Skavengard are very much of the Type B variety, given that they deliberately try to kill the protagonists or at least delay them enough that the Beast can get to them and devour them.The story really “starts” with Aren, a young Ossian that is neither low- nor high-born, has a good life, and is trying to woo a local Krodan girl. His buddy, Cade, who also happens to be a POV character early on, is chumming around as well. If you know something about my tastes, the fact that we get two POV characters that are proximally close to each other was immediately concerning. The fact that the POV jumped heads so often was even more so. But I kept at my reading with a valiant effort. The beginning was slow, yes, what with scenes of wooing the girl and then building the world and its history, but I expected that more was to come. More goodness, that is. Clever and challenging, but also funny . . . The explosive finale has more than enough bang for anyone . . . a group forged in blood and betrayal, bonded by their oaths do what needs to be done against any and all odds' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters: The various Ossian resistance groups opposed to the Krodan occupation have been known to go to some pretty nasty extremes in their pursuit of freedom, carrying out assassinations against collaborators and informers, as well as considering butchering their families to discourage collaboration with the Krodans. Garric's plan after the failure of open rebellion at Salt Fork is to smuggle a dozen wine barrels two thirds full of elarite oil into Hammerholt fortress on the eve of a royal wedding and detonate them. This would create an explosion powerful enough to destroy most of the fortress and burn the rest, killing crown prince Ottico, the entire Krodan high command in Ossia, and hundreds if not thousands of Krodan soldiers... but also hundreds of Ossian servants and wedding guests, including foreign dignitaries and children. One of the best in the genre for a very long time . . . a masterful balancing of new and old . . . a rather grand first instalment in a trilogy that could be one of the best epic fantasy has ever seen' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐Stay in the Kitchen: The Krodan religion has very regimented gender roles, with women being considered not intelligent enough for scholarship or administration, let alone fighting. They begin the main plot of the story in a tragic way, but seeing them struggle and cope was inspiring. If you want good examples of complex, strong characters in fantasy, look no further. Worldbuilding I love my fantasy books to have as much worldbuilding as possible – that’s why I read so many huge books and series, because there is enough space for all that exploration. We are certainly given plenty of time to soak in the world in The Ember Blade.