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The Fate of Vultures
"Whatever happens, it won't be the end..."
"This book is quite extraordinary, it is a breath of fresh air..."
“This story is pure magic, and I’m very pleased to learn there’s more still to come…”
“No book has engrossed me so much since Frank Herbert’s ‘Dune’.
Delve into the brand new realm of Prenitia, with the first in the new Of Preludes & Epitaphs series...
"This book is quite extraordinary, it is a breath of fresh air..."
“This story is pure magic, and I’m very pleased to learn there’s more still to come…”
“No book has engrossed me so much since Frank Herbert’s ‘Dune’.
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Telena knows she’s special. Her brother, Aznee, sees things differently. But as Telena engrosses herself with the ancient books from the library, Aznee discovers maybe there is more to his sister’s future than he can imagine.
Within the pages Old Prenitia burns. In the hands of a usurper king and an evil necromancer, the vulnerable settlements are wiped out, and loyal minister, Keno, is running out of time to stop them.
Shy outcast Leyna and cheery carpenter Murray find their blossoming love affair torn apart by desolation, leaving Leyna forced to travel alone with Murray’s contemptuous brother, Adri. While their fate is claimed by a mysterious sorceress, Murray, and warrior Cora, are both haunted by their pasts as deeper challenges and long-held secrets tarnish their journey.
Can they maintain solidarity and search for a saviour in the presence of the unbelievable? Will any of them truly be able to pull Prenitia from this darkest of times?
Take up your sword for the brand new epic fantasy series, and prepare for The Fate of Vultures - the battles of magic have just begun...When Telena delved into the dusty books she could never have guessed her own dark journey with these mythical names had but begun.
Take up your sword for the brand new epic fantasy series, and prepare for The Fate of Vultures - the battles of magic have just begun...- GenresFantasy
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May 28, 2014
First of all, I have to say that it's been a while since I read an epic fantasy, so I thought it might take me a while to get into the story...boy, was I wrong. I was hooked within the first few pages.
There are some novels out there that you can gobble right up, but you usually end up forgetting shortly after. The Prenitian Chronicles isn't one of them. This is one of those stories where you take your time, where you read every word and sentence thoroughly and carefully because the plot is so intricate and consuming that you want to savour every last bit of it. It's the kind of story that stays with you long after you've finished reading it.
What I loved about this novel is that it's a story within a story. We start with Telena, a curious girl, desperate to read a set of old, forbidden history books in the library – The Prenitian Chronicles. Her brother, Aznee, the librarian, finally lets her, and the story begins – though Telena and Aznee are not to be forgotten, as they have their own mystery surrounding them that has left me itching for more.
From there we are introduced to more characters, mainly Leyna, Adri, Cora and Murray, and we follow them on their separate journeys as they fight for their lives and their people. I especially enjoyed the character of Leyna and the way she grew into herself as the story progressed.
Unlike a lot of first books in a series, Jessica O'Toole doesn't bog us down with an overload of information. She gives us enough so that we can picture the world perfectly inside our heads, but not so much that it's overwhelming.
The story was exciting, full of action and magic and pure awesomeness. I spent the the majority of it on the edge of my seat or in tears and I'll be eagerly awaiting the next in the series as I can't wait to find out what happens next, both to Telena and Aznee, and in The Prenitian Chronicles.
Total 5 stars!
There are some novels out there that you can gobble right up, but you usually end up forgetting shortly after. The Prenitian Chronicles isn't one of them. This is one of those stories where you take your time, where you read every word and sentence thoroughly and carefully because the plot is so intricate and consuming that you want to savour every last bit of it. It's the kind of story that stays with you long after you've finished reading it.
What I loved about this novel is that it's a story within a story. We start with Telena, a curious girl, desperate to read a set of old, forbidden history books in the library – The Prenitian Chronicles. Her brother, Aznee, the librarian, finally lets her, and the story begins – though Telena and Aznee are not to be forgotten, as they have their own mystery surrounding them that has left me itching for more.
From there we are introduced to more characters, mainly Leyna, Adri, Cora and Murray, and we follow them on their separate journeys as they fight for their lives and their people. I especially enjoyed the character of Leyna and the way she grew into herself as the story progressed.
Unlike a lot of first books in a series, Jessica O'Toole doesn't bog us down with an overload of information. She gives us enough so that we can picture the world perfectly inside our heads, but not so much that it's overwhelming.
The story was exciting, full of action and magic and pure awesomeness. I spent the the majority of it on the edge of my seat or in tears and I'll be eagerly awaiting the next in the series as I can't wait to find out what happens next, both to Telena and Aznee, and in The Prenitian Chronicles.
Total 5 stars!
September 8, 2014
This book made me remember just how much I enjoy epic fantasy. It is well plotted and engagingly written, so that I found myself completely lost in the story. I could completely relate to Telena, who was my favourite – because I can never resist a history book either. Like Leyna, her namesake in the Chronicles, Telena loves “stories and faraway things and escape” – don’t they both sound like the perfect fantasy heroines? And the Prenitian Chronicles are much more than a set of ordinary history books. Telena had to uncover the story of Prenitia’s legendary past, and what happened with Leyna and Adri. The story consists of many interweaving story lines and unforgettable characters.
The world-building is very well done: the world feels well-balanced and real without ever overwhelming the actual stories.
This story is pure magic, and I’m very pleased to learn there’s more still to come and more Chronicles for Telena to read!
The world-building is very well done: the world feels well-balanced and real without ever overwhelming the actual stories.
This story is pure magic, and I’m very pleased to learn there’s more still to come and more Chronicles for Telena to read!
August 24, 2014
The main thing that struck me about this book, is obviously not only how good it was, but how absorbed I got by it! No book has engrossed me so much since Frank Herbert’s ‘Dune’. And that is massive praise from me, as this is one of, if not, my favourite book of all time and Jessica O’Toole’s writing, story and book echoed that standard so much I nearly forgot what I was reading.
We are introduced to some interesting and engaging characters and the journeys they start to find themselves on, in a back drop of an enthralling world full of magic and mystery but of which is all so real and believable. This is an author I now rate very highly! I am excited about reading future books and stories, and wait with baited breath for more!
We are introduced to some interesting and engaging characters and the journeys they start to find themselves on, in a back drop of an enthralling world full of magic and mystery but of which is all so real and believable. This is an author I now rate very highly! I am excited about reading future books and stories, and wait with baited breath for more!
July 10, 2017
The Fate of the Vultures has a lot of strengths and nicely-borrows from a number of well-known novels in the Fantasy genre. More of the Tolkien and Isabelle Carmody variety than the Harry Potter or Terry Pratchett style. I believe the style the author writes in is called fantasy realism; the magical and religious aspects in these works are important but not really at the centre of the story. Despite this, I find to be most praiseworthy the depictions of this Fantasy world's historical background and mythology: they were woven consistently and interestingly throughout the novel and rarely if ever info-dumped.
Things such as passing seasons or time being described as tanes and the farewell phrase fai ana really make things more immersive).
It is a story-within-a-story. The main character reads a historical tale about her civilisation from the local library; one that may or may not be a fictional account and we are privy to the events that take place in this story as well. In fact many of the chapter's follow the story of this forgotten world.
The dialogue in both the main and secondary storyline is very well-done and makes the common folk characters very relatable; the king's character I liked less as he seemed too cold and stiff and not different enough from other selfish and power-hungry royalty in other medieval, Fantasy works. I like the main female protagonist and her brother a lot; I found their depiction very realistic and very amiable.
I enjoyed the mythology involving the people of this world's beliefs about spirits and the part with the mountainside flower that is rumoured to have healing attributes and the people who studied magic under patrons; who if I am not mistaken in some cases could be Gods. I thought the fact magic was becoming scarcer throughout the land was a nice touch.
The action scenes are well-written but I am not a fighting or action scene reader so I preferred other aspects of the book. There are a few mistakes such as missing words and sentences where the subject is unclear but these are few and far between and all-in-all it is better-edited than many traditionally- published works.
I enjoyed the relationships of Telena and Aznee and Leyna is herself, a well-drawn character: heroic in a kind of gentle and unassuming way that does not belie disbelief for such a young girl caught in the crossfires of a war. The language and behaviour and philosophies of the characters are generally appropriate for the medieval setting however a line about not infringing upon someone's lifestyle if it harms no-one was worded in a very modern fashion and is a highly-individualist concept that seems out of place in a ancient world where sacrifice and duty to your village or city is held in higher esteem (seemingly) than personal liberties. Personal liberties as the top priority for society is a very modern, Western concept of morality.
Finally the part about switching from a trade or barter system to a monetary/coin system was interesting; I could see how this could cause the ensuing problems it did. The cliffhanger where Aznee talked about having once searched for evidence of the history of his world and Leyna wanting to search f0r it someday too, was a lovely, satisfying ending.
Things such as passing seasons or time being described as tanes and the farewell phrase fai ana really make things more immersive).
It is a story-within-a-story. The main character reads a historical tale about her civilisation from the local library; one that may or may not be a fictional account and we are privy to the events that take place in this story as well. In fact many of the chapter's follow the story of this forgotten world.
The dialogue in both the main and secondary storyline is very well-done and makes the common folk characters very relatable; the king's character I liked less as he seemed too cold and stiff and not different enough from other selfish and power-hungry royalty in other medieval, Fantasy works. I like the main female protagonist and her brother a lot; I found their depiction very realistic and very amiable.
I enjoyed the mythology involving the people of this world's beliefs about spirits and the part with the mountainside flower that is rumoured to have healing attributes and the people who studied magic under patrons; who if I am not mistaken in some cases could be Gods. I thought the fact magic was becoming scarcer throughout the land was a nice touch.
The action scenes are well-written but I am not a fighting or action scene reader so I preferred other aspects of the book. There are a few mistakes such as missing words and sentences where the subject is unclear but these are few and far between and all-in-all it is better-edited than many traditionally- published works.
I enjoyed the relationships of Telena and Aznee and Leyna is herself, a well-drawn character: heroic in a kind of gentle and unassuming way that does not belie disbelief for such a young girl caught in the crossfires of a war. The language and behaviour and philosophies of the characters are generally appropriate for the medieval setting however a line about not infringing upon someone's lifestyle if it harms no-one was worded in a very modern fashion and is a highly-individualist concept that seems out of place in a ancient world where sacrifice and duty to your village or city is held in higher esteem (seemingly) than personal liberties. Personal liberties as the top priority for society is a very modern, Western concept of morality.
Finally the part about switching from a trade or barter system to a monetary/coin system was interesting; I could see how this could cause the ensuing problems it did. The cliffhanger where Aznee talked about having once searched for evidence of the history of his world and Leyna wanting to search f0r it someday too, was a lovely, satisfying ending.
August 28, 2015
Epic fantasy and book reviews share a commonality for me - I don't usually get involved with either of them (the former because it is often a genre dominated by male privilege, and the latter because... Well, I, just a bit shit at it). But I was compelled to comment on Vultures because I would want to encourage others to pick up this immersing story by a talented young author.
The book is one which follows many individual narratives, woven together, intertwined in their fates, as they play out across the land of Prenetia. It is to the author's credit that each of the key characters in the tale - Leyna, Murray, Adri, Cora, and Premo, as well as Caarta, Yesmi, Keno, Kurayne, and a host of others - are created and developed in such a way that you truly care about them, and the fate that the author has in store for each of them. These men and women, as well as the land of Prenetia and its associated towns and cities, have clearly been created with love, and there is a depth to their stories which means you cannot help but be drawn into their world, and join them upon the epic quest that each individual must undertake.
The complexity of the narrative style and the skill of description which makes the land of Prenetia feel so tangible and real means that on occasion, I did feel myself starting to lose the thread of the overall plot. I mention this only because I hope that if others find the same, that they will persevere, carried forward by the energy of the author, and I promise they will be rewarded.
The momentum that the book gathers towards the end sends you hurtling towards the final battle in a manner that means you find yourself back-peddling, desperate for the book to not come to an end. And when the casualties come - as in war, they surely must - I actually found myself shouting aloud, such was the degree to which I had begun to consider the characters as my own friends. The emotions that the author draws out of the reader at each turn of the page also meant that this was the sort of book that you struggled to put down, and which called to you when you did.
I would recommend this not only to those who are fans of the genre, but *especially* to those who (like me) are not. It is a book filled with strong characters (and strong *female* characters, which is hardly an overarching trait of the majority of fantasy). It is a tale of friendship, of kinship, and of the bonds between us which may remain broken for many years yet remain deeply etched in our souls, waiting to be renewed. It is therefore a tale of hope, and given the current descent of our own world into an often violent and despairing dystopia, one into which it is a pleasure to escape.
The book is one which follows many individual narratives, woven together, intertwined in their fates, as they play out across the land of Prenetia. It is to the author's credit that each of the key characters in the tale - Leyna, Murray, Adri, Cora, and Premo, as well as Caarta, Yesmi, Keno, Kurayne, and a host of others - are created and developed in such a way that you truly care about them, and the fate that the author has in store for each of them. These men and women, as well as the land of Prenetia and its associated towns and cities, have clearly been created with love, and there is a depth to their stories which means you cannot help but be drawn into their world, and join them upon the epic quest that each individual must undertake.
The complexity of the narrative style and the skill of description which makes the land of Prenetia feel so tangible and real means that on occasion, I did feel myself starting to lose the thread of the overall plot. I mention this only because I hope that if others find the same, that they will persevere, carried forward by the energy of the author, and I promise they will be rewarded.
The momentum that the book gathers towards the end sends you hurtling towards the final battle in a manner that means you find yourself back-peddling, desperate for the book to not come to an end. And when the casualties come - as in war, they surely must - I actually found myself shouting aloud, such was the degree to which I had begun to consider the characters as my own friends. The emotions that the author draws out of the reader at each turn of the page also meant that this was the sort of book that you struggled to put down, and which called to you when you did.
I would recommend this not only to those who are fans of the genre, but *especially* to those who (like me) are not. It is a book filled with strong characters (and strong *female* characters, which is hardly an overarching trait of the majority of fantasy). It is a tale of friendship, of kinship, and of the bonds between us which may remain broken for many years yet remain deeply etched in our souls, waiting to be renewed. It is therefore a tale of hope, and given the current descent of our own world into an often violent and despairing dystopia, one into which it is a pleasure to escape.
May 24, 2019
I received this book as an ARO in exchange for an honest review.
A great story. It has a few grammar mistakes and typos, and it took me awhile to get used to the names the author created, but once I reached about 20% of the book, I was hooked. I found myself irritated sometimes when Aznee interrupted Telara from her reading.
The story grabbed my arm and took me on an incredible trip around Prenitia, where I could almost smell the food served during the festival in Lisser. Jessica put a lot of thought into her world building, describing details of each city’s history and culture. What could have been an immense info dump at times comes across as intriguing and fascinating, like the scene where Leyna asks Cattar about his tattoos.
The characters are well designed and developed. If you want to read an epic fantasy without the usual info dump and a gripping story, this is the book for you.
A great story. It has a few grammar mistakes and typos, and it took me awhile to get used to the names the author created, but once I reached about 20% of the book, I was hooked. I found myself irritated sometimes when Aznee interrupted Telara from her reading.
The story grabbed my arm and took me on an incredible trip around Prenitia, where I could almost smell the food served during the festival in Lisser. Jessica put a lot of thought into her world building, describing details of each city’s history and culture. What could have been an immense info dump at times comes across as intriguing and fascinating, like the scene where Leyna asks Cattar about his tattoos.
The characters are well designed and developed. If you want to read an epic fantasy without the usual info dump and a gripping story, this is the book for you.
January 24, 2016
Jessica O'Toole is a writer of real ambition - this, the first in a projected series set in the fictional world of Prenitia, sets out her stall confidently and with style.
It tells the story of Telena, a young girl whose brother, Aznee, is the village librarian, and it is in the library that she first discovers the chronicles that tell the ancient history of their homeland. O'Toole uses this as a framing device for the epic saga that will unfold, as the reader encounters with Telena characters from long ago -warriors, magicians, kings, priestesses - whose life-and-death struggles seem a world away from her own more quotidian existence. Or are they...?
The chronicles introduce us to Leyna, Telena's namesake, a teenage girl in the village of Rayan, who, the author makes clear, is an outcast, plain in looks, and despised because her mother is a prostitute. Few look kindly on her, but among those who do, the most important is Murray, a carpenter at the workshop where she becomes an apprentice. The two become friends, and then lovers - but their happiness is cut short by an attack on the village by Premo, who has usurped the throne of Matara, capital of Prenitia, and is busy imposing his rule by committing genocide across the land:
"'Prenitia is sick. It is tainted, with those unwilling and ungrateful people who still refuse to kneel when they see their true leader come. So we must cleanse it. Enrich the earth with their blood for it to be reborn in Alacaethe and returned to us, willing and submissive.'"
This Year Zero approach to his rule makes Premo understandably unpopular, but he has installed a necromancer, Lorosa, to guard Matara while he is away on campaign, and the various tribes of Prenitia are divided in the face of the threat. "The Fate of Vultures" recounts how Leyna and Murray, and Murray's brother, the warrior Adri, and his consort Cora - who is not all she seems - and their friends must undertake a long and perilous quest to bring down Premo and Lorosa before they destroy everything they hold dear.
In this they are abetted by Keno, a minister in Premo's government who has nevertheless vowed to destroy him, and Keno's lover Yesmi, a witch who has been trapped by Lorosa, and may hold the key to the kingdom's salvation.
The story returns at regular intervals to Telena, as she reads of their exploits many years (or "tanes", in the vocabulary of the book) later. Who is the mysterious old woman who hands Aznee a bottle, and asks him to give it to his sister...?
So "The Fate of Vultures" is a story within a story, and Telena's unflagging enthusiasm for these long-dead characters no doubt echoes O' Toole's own enthusiasm for the power of storytelling - she knows that books are dangerous and powerful things, and not to be opened lightly. Her invented world is embroidered with its own words - such as Alacaethe (Heaven), lufene (lover), kettar (lord), mento (meeting place) - that she's clearly put great thought and care into, and unlike in some fantasy novels these never jar or sound silly, and are used judiciously. There's also a handy glossary at the back if you get lost.
There is some fine writing in this novel, and a few quotes give a flavour of it:
"She booted a small hill of dirt across the path, creating wings with her cloak in the short shadows that danced on the ground..."
"He poked at his cheek, trying to ignite life into it, but it merely sank back into the sadness of his expression. He was ill. Everyone was ill. Every thing..."
"[Rayan] was not part of her. It was everything she wished she could carve away and redesign... [Her hair] knotted easily and she was constantly, idly grooming it. But she kept it long regardless, to hide behind. It soothed her; it made her remember that she was there, that if she didn't exist and she was as worthless as she had been made to believe, why any god would bother giving her knots in her hair..."
"Leyna knew for some those dreams that she pondered weren't just grains of sand that must fall from the fingers to the ocean of the other, forgotten ones. They were eternity held in suspension by hope that she must not lose. They were reality in the purest form..."
This is writing of the highest calibre - and I think it was these quieter moments which worked the best for me in the book. As the story gallops to its conclusion, I sometimes sensed that O'Toole's enthusiasm for the plot overrode on occasion the nuances of character and dialogue that pulled me in in the first place.
But these are niggles - and anyone who knows me knows I always have them! "The Fate of Vultures" is lovingly crafted, superbly plotted fantasy, frightening, sexy and melancholy in the best sense, full of passion and a love for life. Leyna, especially, is a truly memorable character, and the way she grows through the novel, from a shy girl to a confident young woman, bloodied but not unbowed by the horrors that are thrown at her, is a real treat. With Cora and Yesmi, and the warrior Verlane, she forms a quartet of powerful women at the heart of the book who, though they have relationships with men, are never defined by them, and whose actions rather define and shape the destinies of all around them. When you finish "The Fate of Vultures", you are left in no doubt that this is an author building for the future, on strong foundations. I think I'll leave the last word to her:
"Wherever you have come from, no matter how far, how long ago, how recently, you have come here for the same reason as everyone else around you... Buried beneath skin, veins, flesh and bone, in the deepest depths of every being here, the same, sharp presence can be found. The longing and the need to be a part of this."
It tells the story of Telena, a young girl whose brother, Aznee, is the village librarian, and it is in the library that she first discovers the chronicles that tell the ancient history of their homeland. O'Toole uses this as a framing device for the epic saga that will unfold, as the reader encounters with Telena characters from long ago -warriors, magicians, kings, priestesses - whose life-and-death struggles seem a world away from her own more quotidian existence. Or are they...?
The chronicles introduce us to Leyna, Telena's namesake, a teenage girl in the village of Rayan, who, the author makes clear, is an outcast, plain in looks, and despised because her mother is a prostitute. Few look kindly on her, but among those who do, the most important is Murray, a carpenter at the workshop where she becomes an apprentice. The two become friends, and then lovers - but their happiness is cut short by an attack on the village by Premo, who has usurped the throne of Matara, capital of Prenitia, and is busy imposing his rule by committing genocide across the land:
"'Prenitia is sick. It is tainted, with those unwilling and ungrateful people who still refuse to kneel when they see their true leader come. So we must cleanse it. Enrich the earth with their blood for it to be reborn in Alacaethe and returned to us, willing and submissive.'"
This Year Zero approach to his rule makes Premo understandably unpopular, but he has installed a necromancer, Lorosa, to guard Matara while he is away on campaign, and the various tribes of Prenitia are divided in the face of the threat. "The Fate of Vultures" recounts how Leyna and Murray, and Murray's brother, the warrior Adri, and his consort Cora - who is not all she seems - and their friends must undertake a long and perilous quest to bring down Premo and Lorosa before they destroy everything they hold dear.
In this they are abetted by Keno, a minister in Premo's government who has nevertheless vowed to destroy him, and Keno's lover Yesmi, a witch who has been trapped by Lorosa, and may hold the key to the kingdom's salvation.
The story returns at regular intervals to Telena, as she reads of their exploits many years (or "tanes", in the vocabulary of the book) later. Who is the mysterious old woman who hands Aznee a bottle, and asks him to give it to his sister...?
So "The Fate of Vultures" is a story within a story, and Telena's unflagging enthusiasm for these long-dead characters no doubt echoes O' Toole's own enthusiasm for the power of storytelling - she knows that books are dangerous and powerful things, and not to be opened lightly. Her invented world is embroidered with its own words - such as Alacaethe (Heaven), lufene (lover), kettar (lord), mento (meeting place) - that she's clearly put great thought and care into, and unlike in some fantasy novels these never jar or sound silly, and are used judiciously. There's also a handy glossary at the back if you get lost.
There is some fine writing in this novel, and a few quotes give a flavour of it:
"She booted a small hill of dirt across the path, creating wings with her cloak in the short shadows that danced on the ground..."
"He poked at his cheek, trying to ignite life into it, but it merely sank back into the sadness of his expression. He was ill. Everyone was ill. Every thing..."
"[Rayan] was not part of her. It was everything she wished she could carve away and redesign... [Her hair] knotted easily and she was constantly, idly grooming it. But she kept it long regardless, to hide behind. It soothed her; it made her remember that she was there, that if she didn't exist and she was as worthless as she had been made to believe, why any god would bother giving her knots in her hair..."
"Leyna knew for some those dreams that she pondered weren't just grains of sand that must fall from the fingers to the ocean of the other, forgotten ones. They were eternity held in suspension by hope that she must not lose. They were reality in the purest form..."
This is writing of the highest calibre - and I think it was these quieter moments which worked the best for me in the book. As the story gallops to its conclusion, I sometimes sensed that O'Toole's enthusiasm for the plot overrode on occasion the nuances of character and dialogue that pulled me in in the first place.
But these are niggles - and anyone who knows me knows I always have them! "The Fate of Vultures" is lovingly crafted, superbly plotted fantasy, frightening, sexy and melancholy in the best sense, full of passion and a love for life. Leyna, especially, is a truly memorable character, and the way she grows through the novel, from a shy girl to a confident young woman, bloodied but not unbowed by the horrors that are thrown at her, is a real treat. With Cora and Yesmi, and the warrior Verlane, she forms a quartet of powerful women at the heart of the book who, though they have relationships with men, are never defined by them, and whose actions rather define and shape the destinies of all around them. When you finish "The Fate of Vultures", you are left in no doubt that this is an author building for the future, on strong foundations. I think I'll leave the last word to her:
"Wherever you have come from, no matter how far, how long ago, how recently, you have come here for the same reason as everyone else around you... Buried beneath skin, veins, flesh and bone, in the deepest depths of every being here, the same, sharp presence can be found. The longing and the need to be a part of this."
April 11, 2017
With a compelling cast of characters, each with believable motivations, the story feels grounded- less like a fairy tale than one might expect given the genre and backdrop. For fans of softer heroic fantasy, with emphasis on the dramatic rather than the fantastic, Prenitia: The Fate of Vultures is a satisfying tale with well drawn characters and fun dialogue.
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The intricate detail and world-building in this book is brilliantly done and reminds me why I need to read more epic fantasy! Onwards to book 2!
The intricate detail and world-building in this book is brilliantly done and reminds me why I need to read more epic fantasy! Onwards to book 2!
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