Blood of the Chosen
Burningblade and Silvereye, Book 2
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Narrated by:
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Imogen Church
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By:
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Django Wexler
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Standing on opposite sides of a looming civil war, two siblings discover that not even ties of blood will keep them from splitting the world in two.
Four hundred years ago, a cataclysmic war cracked the world open and exterminated the Elder races. Amid the ashes, their human inheritor, the Dawn Republic, stands guard over lands littered with eldritch relics and cursed by plaguespawn outbreaks. But a new conflict is looming, and brother and sister Maya and Gyre have found themselves on opposite sides.
At the age of five, Maya was taken by the Twilight Order and trained to be a centarch, wielding forbidden arcana to enforce the Dawn Republic's rule. On that day, her brother, Gyre, swore to destroy the Order that stole his sister...whatever the cost.
Twelve years later, brother and sister are two very different people: she is Burningblade, the Twilight Order's brightest prodigy; he is Silvereye - thief, bandit, revolutionary.
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But what genuinely surprised me and continues further with book 2, is the balance of this immersive world, the magic and the tech that is familar yet applied in a clever way. Mixing with some outstanding character writing and relationships, particularly between the two protagonists and their relative team members.
As I mentioned, there's a hint of video game tropes here with abilities and limitations such as Maya and her brother Gyre of either side of a centuries old conflict. Maya has a magic ability that forms as flames and creates a fire based sword thats definitely not a lightsaber apart from it being a lot like one...
Gyre has augmentations from a hidden race of magic weilding "Ghouls" that make him able to slow time down and move around a bit Dishonoured style. These both have their own limits a lot like you'd expect playing an RPG so I think this is a great story to get gamers reading!
But structurally and the twisting nature of the plot and the characters motivations and journeys are all what you'd get in a well written fantasy/Sci-fi Novel. Yes, it's full of action and feels almost thriller paced at times, in a good way, but it very much focuses on the relationships and evolution of characters.
I think this is the perfect book 2 as well, hits hard and moves you though more of the wider world but leaves you ready for book... Like now, where is it..?
My only mild criticism is the over use of "the thing" and the word "thing" as to describe regualrly appearing items or monsters. Maya has "the thing" in her chest, Gyre has his "thing" in his head, they fought and burned the "thing" ahead of them.
It got a bit much at one point towards the end and it's a shame as it broke a little of the immersive world where everything is full of much better use of language. This is the only THING however stopping me saying 5 stars, it's absolutely excellent outside of one (perhaps personal) gripe and I genuinely can't wait for the conclusion!
Excellent second book, so glad book 3 is already out!
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Awfully read!
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Great story, over-enthusiastic narration
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