William Wilde and the Sons of Deceit

The Chronicles of William Wilde #4

by Davis Ashura

The raid on Sinskrill was a success, but the battle is only just beginning. William realizes the stakes at hand. He still has to find a way to prevent Lord Shet, the god of the mahavans, from returning to Earth from the faraway world of Seminal. If he doesn't, Arylyn will be destroyed.But strange visions plague his an albino monster who infects William with anger. It is Sapient Dormant, the Overward of the necrosed and tasked by Shet to recover a long lost talisman of power. The Servitor of Sinskrill also advances his own plans. He's learned Arylyn's location and will do whatever he can to bring a crippling blow to the magi.Serena struggles with her own path, torn between loyalty and love for William and a desire to see her family safe. Rukh and Jessira seek to provide balance to the magi. Only they have the skill and training to keep Arylyn safe, but their memories of their shared past life on Arisa remain fragmented, and their greatest allies, their Kesarins—Aia and Shon—are nowhere to be found.Forged from the unlikeliest of metals, a hero summons the depths of his courage.

Genres: Fantasy, Audiobook, Classics, Fiction

574 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 8, 2019

About the author

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Davis Ashura is an author of such sublime depth and beauty that his works have been known to cause a tear to fall from the eyes of even the hardest of hearts.
Just kidding.
But he does write.
This humble writer, who refers to himself in the third person, resides in North Carolina, sharing a house with his magnificent wife who somehow overlooked Davis’ eccentricities and married him anyway. As proper recompense for her sacrifice, Davis then unwittingly turned his magnificent wife into a nerd-girl. To her sad and utter humiliation, she knows exactly what is meant by ‘Kronos’. Living with them are their two rambunctious boys, both of whom have at various times helped turn Davis’ once lustrous, raven-black hair prematurely white (it sure sounds prettier than the dirty gray it actually is). And of course, there is the obligatory strange, adopted cats (all authors have cats-it's in the by-laws). One eats everything placed before him and the other has the world's stinkiest breath.
When not working – nay laboring – in the creation of works of fiction so grand that hardly anyone has read a single word of them, Davis practices medicine, but only when the insurance companies tell him he can.

Reviews

[Tina · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty good

I am, overall, enjoying this series. Having started with the Instrument of Omens series first, the one after this one, I am confused and have lots of questions. Can’t say more because spoilers. I definitely do want to know more though. It can be a little slow going, and sometimes an over abundance of world building, and there are errors. But the story is told well, and look forward to reading more.

[Jim Arona · Rating 1 out of 5]

Not much to like about this book.
It seemed to me that the author's underlying idea in this book was that your choice to be a good or a bad person is largely made while you're a teenager, and therefore, its critical to make the right decisions in the heated cauldron of adolescent emotions. Which sounds like total bullshit to me.
Fairly clearly, the book is written from a Christian perspective, although it seems to include Hinduism in an attempt to be culturally diverse. I don't mind this, although with the endless amount of navel-gazing that goes on in this book, I could live without it.
What I really don't like are the shallow attempts at theology and reasoning towards faith, which I thought pretty damned insulting to the intelligence of a young adult.
While I felt that was annoying, I guess it was a symptom of a more pervasive issue, which is that the author cannot get his head out of his arse. The first HALF of the book is navel-gazing and talking about handling grief and loss. And, there's no doubt that, given the story so far, it definitely had to be handled, but Jesus on his bloody stick, it shouldn't take the first half of the book.
Aside from that, I really don't like the contrived way characters are set up in relationships etc. It's artificial, unnatural and full of authorial condescension.
I'm afraid my patience has been exhausted since the first book. I think it suffers from what a lot of modern writing struggles with - lack of a decent editor, or at least someone with enough balls to tell the author to stop being such a dick.
1 star only, Mr Ashura, and I'm being kind.

[Nick · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great read to what I thought was the end of the series, but apparently not. Book ends with a huge battle. Daniel is killed by the Mahavans. The Sinskrills are decimated, and everyone is trying to pick up the pieces.

Selena has been "stripped" of her powers, so she has to return to the real world. Really just need to read the next one to find out what happens next.

[Frank · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was a good book and series overall, however it was just not MY favorite.

[Landon Ragusa · Rating 4 out of 5]

*8.0/10