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12 pages, Audible Audio
First published February 18, 2017
I'm a pretty big fan of Evan Currie. My favorite series of his are the On Silver Wings series (featuring Sorilla Aida) and the Odyssey One series. They are hard sci-fi, but with a good bit of humor and humanity's fight for survival against overwhelming odds. This series is a bit different, though.
The Knighthood is definitely something unique, and the story continues for two more books so far—The Demon City and Risen—with more likely to come. The central character is another female warrior, but the setting is very new. Elan is a teenager in a post-apocalyptic future where "Demons" have taken control of Earth through multi-dimensional portals. The remnants of humanity are either enslaved or living in small, low-profile, medieval-style villages. Currie has worked hard to mash up fantasy tropes and give them sufficiently advanced technological underpinnings to show the science-fiction foundation, albeit with mixed results.
After her parents are brutally slaughtered in front of her—providing the obligatory revenge quest—Elan sets out to find the human quislings and the demon horde that took her father, a resistance leader. She gets staked out in the desert for her troubles, only to be rescued by an enigmatic sage who takes her to a free human city. Unfortunately, that city lies directly in the path of a local demon lord who wants it wiped off the face of the Earth.
"I am Elanthielle of Atlantis. You killed my father. Prepare to die."