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The Cycle of Galand #8
The 13th God
The entity of Nolost has racked Rale with plagues, disasters, and armies of demons. Dante, Blays, and Gladdic's final effort to defeat him has failed. Within weeks—if not days—Rale will be destroyed.
One last hope remains. They can't kill Nolost, but they may be able to eject him from Rale before he can complete his work. To do so, though, they'll have to destroy a world themselves: Olastar, the home of the portals that link all other places together.
Even with a guide to help them through it, Olastar seems bent on killing them, assaulting them with grotesquely warped animals and malevolent spirits. As they work toward the world's core, they learn something horrifying: this strange realm isn't unpopulated, like they'd assumed. It's inhabited by millions of people.
And if Dante and Blays want their own world to live, they'll have to kill every last one of them.
One last hope remains. They can't kill Nolost, but they may be able to eject him from Rale before he can complete his work. To do so, though, they'll have to destroy a world themselves: Olastar, the home of the portals that link all other places together.
Even with a guide to help them through it, Olastar seems bent on killing them, assaulting them with grotesquely warped animals and malevolent spirits. As they work toward the world's core, they learn something horrifying: this strange realm isn't unpopulated, like they'd assumed. It's inhabited by millions of people.
And if Dante and Blays want their own world to live, they'll have to kill every last one of them.
658 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 20, 2022
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Edward W. Robertson
73 books1,236 followersEd is the author of the post-apocalyptic Breakers series and the epic fantasy series The Cycle of Arawn. A former New Yorker and Idaho-guy, he currently lives in the LA area. His short fiction has appeared in a whole bunch of magazines and anthologies.
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January 9, 2023
This is starting to feel drawn out and unenjoyable. The lack of character growth is painful. Each of them is the same they have been for so many books :/ I might be done
February 9, 2023
This series started off with a bang and really kept up a solid momentum… until now. Robertson is ready to be done and it shows. Somewhere along the way, Dante, Blays and Gladdic stopped being helpful denizens and became dangerous meddlers— they’ve caused every world-threatening situation they’ve been in for the last 3 books. We’re murdering and/or sacrificing scores of innocent people without so much as a backwards glance, and the end battle scene is needlessly gratuitous. There’s zero character development and hasn’t been for a long time (remind me, isn’t Blays married? Because his wife isn’t so much as mentioned in this book) and the pacing is horrible. We’re essentially just running from point a to point b and back again and killing time on subplots that don’t go anywhere (Rathar’s Eye, anyone?). I suspect Robertson is trying to give us a huge ending to do justice to the series, but at this point just call it.
For fans of Robertson’s work, I highly recommend his Breakers series. It’s 100% solid from beginning to end. One of my all time favorite series.
For fans of Robertson’s work, I highly recommend his Breakers series. It’s 100% solid from beginning to end. One of my all time favorite series.
August 6, 2023
Disappointing read, mostly because it doesn’t really feel like he’s advancing the story towards some grand finale.
Robertson should just rename the books “The Adventures of Dante and Blays” so the reader would know it’s just another tale and expect the familiar exploits, predicaments and the camaraderie of our daring duo, but not expect a whole lot of plot development or subplots or even carrots for the dedicated reader.
Much of this book read more like a graphic novel, and it would probably lend itself to that spectacularly given that in the first 7–8 chapters we barely encounter any other humans but there’s lots of monsters, bizarre creatures, and extraordinary vistas. For this reader, that got tiresome especially as that scenario repeated throughout the book. I often found myself bored and only became keenly re-interested, when there were new characters or novel plot developments.
There were only a few times in the book where I felt it grabbed my attention and I couldn’t wait to see what would happen next or how they would get out of this jam. As the book wore on, especially towards the finale, it was really the same old same old. Seems like he might be running out of steam for these guys. This one, like the one before it, just felt forced compared to his earlier works in the Cycles of Arawn & of Galand, where both main characters were always managing exciting challenges and growing, and Gladicc was not just a sidekick.
The high point for me was that I listened on Audible and Tim Gerard Reynolds could make the phone book exciting. When it drones on, I could double the listening speed and that helped some. However I actually felt sorry for Tim because he’s sooo good and this was just ok.
Robertson should just rename the books “The Adventures of Dante and Blays” so the reader would know it’s just another tale and expect the familiar exploits, predicaments and the camaraderie of our daring duo, but not expect a whole lot of plot development or subplots or even carrots for the dedicated reader.
Much of this book read more like a graphic novel, and it would probably lend itself to that spectacularly given that in the first 7–8 chapters we barely encounter any other humans but there’s lots of monsters, bizarre creatures, and extraordinary vistas. For this reader, that got tiresome especially as that scenario repeated throughout the book. I often found myself bored and only became keenly re-interested, when there were new characters or novel plot developments.
There were only a few times in the book where I felt it grabbed my attention and I couldn’t wait to see what would happen next or how they would get out of this jam. As the book wore on, especially towards the finale, it was really the same old same old. Seems like he might be running out of steam for these guys. This one, like the one before it, just felt forced compared to his earlier works in the Cycles of Arawn & of Galand, where both main characters were always managing exciting challenges and growing, and Gladicc was not just a sidekick.
The high point for me was that I listened on Audible and Tim Gerard Reynolds could make the phone book exciting. When it drones on, I could double the listening speed and that helped some. However I actually felt sorry for Tim because he’s sooo good and this was just ok.
February 4, 2023
This series was amazing, up until roughly book 4. However, it just feels rehashed material. I get it, there's a big bad that the heroes have no way of defeating, yet somehow moments before absolute defeat, either one of there athletic ability/genius/faith saves the day. I know, I know, that's every fantasy book, but especially these last 2 books, it felt way overdone. This book actually made me tired reading "we've got get here, ASAP, now defeat something undefeatable! Now get over here, ASAP, now defeat something undefeatable!" If it had been me, and knowing what they did about the afterlife, about halfway through, I would have said f*ck it & offed myself. And to top it off, I felt as if the killing of the chained god was terrible, brutal, and in the end - served absolutely no purpose. Lastly, I kept waiting for the "big reveal", but it never came.
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March 23, 2023
This series has turned into a tedious slog, and it's still not over? I'm not sure I'll be there for the last book. It's just not worth so much time.
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August 10, 2025I see in the other reviews that this book has had a less positive reception than the early few in the series, and unfortunately I have to agree at least to some extent. But I think it’s mostly the aftermath of the end of the last book that weighed heavy on my experience of this one — the destruction of the Emerald Titan seems to have ensured that even if the heroes win enough to survive, they / Rale at large have lost so unbelievably much that it’s gonna be a downer regardless. I was hanging onto hope that there would be a twist in this book reversing that sense but there actually wasn’t and that was really demoralizing.
Before expanding on that I’d like to also say that there was a lot that I liked quite a bit about this book too. (Warning that I’m back to audiobook version — shoutout to the widely and properly beloved Tim Gerard Reynolds for his excellent performance as always — so I will be guessing at spellings for this review, though I do plan to acquire a physical copy eventually.) Obviously, Dante, Blays, and Gladdic are still some of my favorite protagonists of all time so any content of them is appreciated. I also really liked our new adventuring companions from this book, the Light of Life (plot twist he’s a person!) and of course Kellen. I’m a big Kellen fan actually, and a big fan of how Dante was about three seconds from throttling him for so much of their time together and yet they grew on each other anyway. Glad to see him get his happy ending with his freedom secured, a personal friendship with Meralda (I’m a fan of her too actually) to reward his dedication to the truth of the existence of gods, and his (admittedly questionable but well-intentioned) goals accomplished. A somewhat sadder story to the Light unfortunately, but we had confirmation that he’s going to continue to exist after finally (800 years of waiting alone in the dark!!) accomplishing what he was created for because he does have a soul, to his own surprise. Hopefully happily reunited with Arawn but idk. The whole “talking from a coat pocket” thing was funny to me too.
There seems to be some people who didn’t like the Daylax subplot but I had an extreme amount of fun with those chapters — one of my favorite things about this series is when the protagonists end up in a strange society and blunder around, which this counts as for sure — and I found it very exciting overall with a pretty satisfying ending to the conflict there.
However, this does lead me to some things I liked less. Like, actually killing everyone from Olastar (except the refugee village) when blowing up Olastar? As other people have said, that’s pretty out of character for the heroes. Especially considering it required the extended and brutal murder of Wessen, which was super drawn-out. I was so sure that they were going to figure out or luck into a way to free him instead, and use that as a springboard to preserve Olastar while taking out Nolost all in one grand sequence of heroics and big magics. I was thinking, like, somehow having Wessen and Nolost switch places or something. Or have Wessen beat Nolost to death somehow. Or idek. And then they could theoretically team up with Kellen and others to destroy the Daylax system permanently or move to whatever additional follow-up quests might come their way for the final two books of the series. But the actual outcome was way sadder and I’m not great with sad endings.
A number of people had problems with the return of the (weakened) Lich after we spent all that time killing him and kicking off this equally terrible / possibly worse situation in the process. I’m fine with it because he went back to being dead anyway and even if he hadn’t they still would have accomplished stopping his rampage regardless, though I don’t feel great about Dante finally successfully taking on his mantle, as I’m realizing that Dante’s humanity (figuratively and apparently literally) is pretty important to me having him as our primary protagonist.
That being said, I didn’t mind the Lich Backstory Arc, and it was hilarious that after Gladdic tried to use the stone and accidentally brought back the Lich and they ran around trying to re-kill him, Dante was like “I’m built different” and immediately ALSO accidentally resurrected the Lich. THAT part was extremely funny.
The whole conversation with that king in Olastar kind of confirmed to me that sinking feeling I had at the end of the last book that the protagonists haven’t really had the opportunity to think about or been given a clear understanding of what a complete disaster it would be for the people of Rale to be cut off from the gods though. Their whole identities kind of depend on it, and the very ending of this book implies the thing I was most worried about: that they would be cut off from the nether and the ether by such a sundering. Which is not only undermining their whole identities again but also, like, why would I continue to read a series that’s been about sorcerers the whole time when they suddenly stop being able to do sorcery forever The End. So I’m going to try to hold faith that things are gonna be set right, or perhaps the powers of Rale will simply be reduced proportionally worldwide so that it effectively makes little difference, but idk what to think yet other than doubly not liking the implications here. Although, I will point out that the remaining three of the Four That Fell are presumably still on Rale, for what that’s worth.
Right now, I still haven’t decided how I feel about this book as a whole, other than unsettled. Might comment further thoughts below.
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June 14, 2023
It wasn't listed as an option on Goodreads, but the edition I read (or listened to) was the Audible Audiobook.
Though they tried desperately to save Rale in the previous book, The Twelve Plagues, Dante, Blays, and Gladdic missed their deadline. Now they have only days, or at most weeks, to save their world. And they can’t kill the entity, Nolost, who is responsible for carrying out its destruction.
But Carvahal, the trickster god who is Blays’ patron, offers them one final possibility – not of killing Nolost, but of sealing the portals he is using to bring in monsters from the hellish place known as the Becoming.
Sealing these portals will require them to destroy another world, however, and to kill another god – one they hadn’t previously known existed.
To do this they have to go to this other world, which seems to be a series of nested worlds. It is just as dangerous as all the places they visited in the previous books.
The most interesting part of the entire book is when the king of this world gets them addicted to this strange drug they use to control their slaves (most of the population). The masters and nobles of this world maintain that keeping slaves is not immoral because their slaves are happy. They never mention that it is because they have them drugged. Dante and his friends very much enjoy the drug but have a difficult time escaping its effects. But only when they do so can they find the place where the god they have to kill is being held captive – yet another world inside the others.
Though they hurt him, all their power is insufficient to kill this other god. They think if they had the power of the White Lich they could do it though. You know this is going to be a bad move, but they travel back to Tanar Attain, where they found the Lich to begin with. By the time they get there, you are about ready to destroy Rale yourself, just to get it over with. Of course, the Lich gets loose. They have to kill him something like three times before they can get him to agree to come back with them to kill Wessen, this thirteenth god.
The Lich does make an effort to kill the god when he gets there. Even that doesn’t help, though, and they finally destabilize the place so much that they are forced to leave. But in the confusion at the end, Wessen manages to close all the portals without dying. So now all they have to do is defeat Nolost.
After all this trouble, I hope they make it this time.
Tim Gerard Reynolds is once again a great narrator for Dante and Blays.
Though they tried desperately to save Rale in the previous book, The Twelve Plagues, Dante, Blays, and Gladdic missed their deadline. Now they have only days, or at most weeks, to save their world. And they can’t kill the entity, Nolost, who is responsible for carrying out its destruction.
But Carvahal, the trickster god who is Blays’ patron, offers them one final possibility – not of killing Nolost, but of sealing the portals he is using to bring in monsters from the hellish place known as the Becoming.
Sealing these portals will require them to destroy another world, however, and to kill another god – one they hadn’t previously known existed.
To do this they have to go to this other world, which seems to be a series of nested worlds. It is just as dangerous as all the places they visited in the previous books.
The most interesting part of the entire book is when the king of this world gets them addicted to this strange drug they use to control their slaves (most of the population). The masters and nobles of this world maintain that keeping slaves is not immoral because their slaves are happy. They never mention that it is because they have them drugged. Dante and his friends very much enjoy the drug but have a difficult time escaping its effects. But only when they do so can they find the place where the god they have to kill is being held captive – yet another world inside the others.
Though they hurt him, all their power is insufficient to kill this other god. They think if they had the power of the White Lich they could do it though. You know this is going to be a bad move, but they travel back to Tanar Attain, where they found the Lich to begin with. By the time they get there, you are about ready to destroy Rale yourself, just to get it over with. Of course, the Lich gets loose. They have to kill him something like three times before they can get him to agree to come back with them to kill Wessen, this thirteenth god.
The Lich does make an effort to kill the god when he gets there. Even that doesn’t help, though, and they finally destabilize the place so much that they are forced to leave. But in the confusion at the end, Wessen manages to close all the portals without dying. So now all they have to do is defeat Nolost.
After all this trouble, I hope they make it this time.
Tim Gerard Reynolds is once again a great narrator for Dante and Blays.
June 23, 2025
Read as AudioBook. Love Tim Gerard Reynolds and the way he reads Dante and Blayse are really a good portion of why I keep coming back. He does a great job capturing their sass. But I'd love their sass regardless so it's also up to EWR obviously for writing them so well.
So this is Cycle of Galand book 8 and I started with Cycle of Arawn. So I think that puts me 11 books in. We're jumping the shark, here.
Honestly I'm a little bored with this group of stories. It's really been an exercise in futilities for our heroes and there's just something demoralizing and, frankly, boring about watching them just getting their dicks kicked in for like 3 books. I say that. I'm probably being hyperbolic because I took a hiatus after the last book when things went to shit, only to come to this book and hope they pulled a win out of their ass. Turns out.. no... they just got their dicks stomped in the entire book.
At which point it really feels like... what's the plan here from the author? I can't get attached to any part of the story leading up to the end because it was all frankly a huge waste of time. So why even make me go through the multiple trips hither, thither, and yon.
I'm going to type the names wrong because I listened to the AB instead. But. The whole thing about meeting the people in Ollistar and them getting caught and the whole thing about the Dalax was wholly unnecessary. I guess it gives a motivation for Kellan but felt like a huge waste of my time.
I've loved all the books up until this point, but starting last book I started to fall off. I'm going to finish them,though. I want to finish the overall story. But I think I'm going to have to take another break because they ended this book with a line I'd really just rather they get a deus ex machina already and have Arawn fall from the heavens and save them. Anything at this point.
There's only so much depression a depressed person can take in their books. Actually I may see if someone who has read it has done a summary on YouTube before I waste the time. I might skip some. We'll see.
So this is Cycle of Galand book 8 and I started with Cycle of Arawn. So I think that puts me 11 books in. We're jumping the shark, here.
Honestly I'm a little bored with this group of stories. It's really been an exercise in futilities for our heroes and there's just something demoralizing and, frankly, boring about watching them just getting their dicks kicked in for like 3 books. I say that. I'm probably being hyperbolic because I took a hiatus after the last book when things went to shit, only to come to this book and hope they pulled a win out of their ass. Turns out.. no... they just got their dicks stomped in the entire book.
At which point it really feels like... what's the plan here from the author? I can't get attached to any part of the story leading up to the end because it was all frankly a huge waste of time. So why even make me go through the multiple trips hither, thither, and yon.
I'm going to type the names wrong because I listened to the AB instead. But. The whole thing about meeting the people in Ollistar and them getting caught and the whole thing about the Dalax was wholly unnecessary. I guess it gives a motivation for Kellan but felt like a huge waste of my time.
I've loved all the books up until this point, but starting last book I started to fall off. I'm going to finish them,though. I want to finish the overall story. But I think I'm going to have to take another break because they ended this book with a line I'd really just rather they get a deus ex machina already and have Arawn fall from the heavens and save them. Anything at this point.
There's only so much depression a depressed person can take in their books. Actually I may see if someone who has read it has done a summary on YouTube before I waste the time. I might skip some. We'll see.
March 27, 2023
Oh boy. This was a lot. It was THE MOST MUCH. Let me be clear that my affection for this series is still strong – I said at one point that I would be happy to read about Dante and Blays doing hijinks forever, and that's probably still true.
But at some point I have to say – hey, maybe like, sit down and have a coffee for a minute?
For the past several books and even more in this one, the action has been relentless. RELENTLESS. New people, names, magics, creatures and mechanics are fired at the reader like so many tennis balls in a wild hurricane of chases and fight sequences. It never stops. And honestly a lot of it feels superfluous. You could have cut a lot of this and really refined the important parts, fleshed them out with a little more contemplation and dialogue and maybe an interwoven character arc.
This book was overwhelming and kind of exhausting.
It took me almost a month to read because I had to take breaks, since it NEVER STOPS GOING.
There are flickers: a moment of introspection. A Dante thought process that's just so Dante. Bright spots. But they're so far between and few. Honestly, I can't remember a major character development happening since (I think) Light of Life, which was a lot of books ago. And while I still love Blays and Dante and they keep me coming back, and they are the focus of the story, ... But I'd like a little something ABOUT THEM, you know, something a little bit more? Also, just please, please SLOW DOWN a little bit and breathe.
I was pleasantly surprised to realize that this isn't the last book in the series, and certain developments do make me eager for what will happen next. I'll be there, for sure. But at some point my brain has to kick in and point out that there's technical problems happening that got in the way of my enjoyment.
But at some point I have to say – hey, maybe like, sit down and have a coffee for a minute?
For the past several books and even more in this one, the action has been relentless. RELENTLESS. New people, names, magics, creatures and mechanics are fired at the reader like so many tennis balls in a wild hurricane of chases and fight sequences. It never stops. And honestly a lot of it feels superfluous. You could have cut a lot of this and really refined the important parts, fleshed them out with a little more contemplation and dialogue and maybe an interwoven character arc.
This book was overwhelming and kind of exhausting.
It took me almost a month to read because I had to take breaks, since it NEVER STOPS GOING.
There are flickers: a moment of introspection. A Dante thought process that's just so Dante. Bright spots. But they're so far between and few. Honestly, I can't remember a major character development happening since (I think) Light of Life, which was a lot of books ago. And while I still love Blays and Dante and they keep me coming back, and they are the focus of the story, ... But I'd like a little something ABOUT THEM, you know, something a little bit more? Also, just please, please SLOW DOWN a little bit and breathe.
I was pleasantly surprised to realize that this isn't the last book in the series, and certain developments do make me eager for what will happen next. I'll be there, for sure. But at some point my brain has to kick in and point out that there's technical problems happening that got in the way of my enjoyment.
December 27, 2023
What's a little genocide/deicide among friends, amirite? And lets throw in
I can't help myself... I'll be here for the finale / part 2 of the finale, one way or another... hopefully I can drag Ann-Marie, Choko, and Nirkatze along with me, for this dumpster fire...
(On a side note, I actually kinda enjoyed the Cycle of the Scour books I read after this, which are prequels about Cally, the mentor of Dante from the very first Cycle of Arawn book... shorter books, return to smaller scope stories, some nice connections... review coming soon on those)...
I can't help myself... I'll be here for the finale / part 2 of the finale, one way or another... hopefully I can drag Ann-Marie, Choko, and Nirkatze along with me, for this dumpster fire...
(On a side note, I actually kinda enjoyed the Cycle of the Scour books I read after this, which are prequels about Cally, the mentor of Dante from the very first Cycle of Arawn book... shorter books, return to smaller scope stories, some nice connections... review coming soon on those)...
April 3, 2023
I could listen to a story about Dante, Blays, and Gladdick going grocery shopping and at this point, I'm confident I would enjoy it. This series continues to amaze. Every time the heroes succeed in saving the world from one problem, their solution brings about yet another. Dante is in a constant state of being the reluctant hero, yet this trope has yet to grow old. I am more enamored with the characters and their interactions with each other. The fact that the magic system continues to expand in a believable way and the squabbles among the pantheon creates believable conflict is just bonus. Well worth the time, especially if you're listening to the audiobook, narrated by Tim Gerard Reynolds.
December 28, 2022
This series had an excellent start with a unique world and likeable characters who struggle, don't always win and are often both hero and villain depending on perspective.
That said, it's gotten long - which has led to power creep, underdeveloped supporting characters/antagonists, and plot holes. The author shows his hand setting up world restricting events and forcing a sequel. In the future it'd work better to timeskip after a trilogy and pick up with a new set of characters & villains (e.g. Sanderson's style), or build an entirely new world (like V.E. Schwab & T. Kingfisher).
Looking forward to the author getting a fresh start in the next series. He's got a lot of potential.
That said, it's gotten long - which has led to power creep, underdeveloped supporting characters/antagonists, and plot holes. The author shows his hand setting up world restricting events and forcing a sequel. In the future it'd work better to timeskip after a trilogy and pick up with a new set of characters & villains (e.g. Sanderson's style), or build an entirely new world (like V.E. Schwab & T. Kingfisher).
Looking forward to the author getting a fresh start in the next series. He's got a lot of potential.
February 19, 2024
Almost bored at this point. I kept waiting for something to happen. The author even teases that there “might be another way” but this is so drawn out and running in place at this point I’m tempted to not read the next one when it is released.
They spent all the book going back and forth trying to Kill the bound God and then they brutally kill him one cut at a time over pages and pages of the book to have it mean nothing. I hated how the white Lich came back and then would go away, let that dude go. Should have ended 2 books go.
Only reading the next one to see if the author redeems himself after 3 drab and run in books.
They spent all the book going back and forth trying to Kill the bound God and then they brutally kill him one cut at a time over pages and pages of the book to have it mean nothing. I hated how the white Lich came back and then would go away, let that dude go. Should have ended 2 books go.
Only reading the next one to see if the author redeems himself after 3 drab and run in books.
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April 15, 2023
This one was off to a rough start with disorganized planning, a back and forth about how they were going to solve the current problem, but about halfway through it picked up some stride and I began to enjoy it. This and the previous book in the series were just so disappointing compared to the earlier ones, as well as compared to seller in this series. I’m hopeful the final book will wrap things up and give more space for character growth, because it’s been a while since we’re seen Danté actually go inward and realize he could be better, as he has done before.
November 2, 2025
I like the whole Galand & Buckler stories a lot, however this is the first one that i somehow cant stomach and get over with. Somehow the story taking place on different worlds and somehow illusive ending just doesn’t make it as fun listens as the previous ones even though TGM is doing a great job as always. Although i have skipped a few books (probably 2-3 before this one), so maybe a lead up to it would result in more fun and focus, but as its standa this is the worst (most boring) of the books so far (read 4-5 i believe)
February 1, 2023
I am glad this series has run its course. I have enjoyed the series as a quick engaging reads but this book just had too many echos from earlier books in the series. I have always loved the banter between Blays, Dante and Garland but the plot of this one just became too much fight-- run -- fight for me. Banter only goes so far.
I am looking forward to trying a new series by Robertson when one appears, but am glad this one is over.
I am looking forward to trying a new series by Robertson when one appears, but am glad this one is over.
March 2, 2023
Disappointed
I was really looking forward to the release of this book, and I was happy to see that it is over 600 pages. Unfortunately, my excitement ended as I got into it, and I had to force myself to finish it.
It did not move the story along, and it was way, way too wordy. I found myself skipping paragraphs or even pages.
I still consider myself a fan of Robertson, and I'm hoping he was just off his game on this one.
I was really looking forward to the release of this book, and I was happy to see that it is over 600 pages. Unfortunately, my excitement ended as I got into it, and I had to force myself to finish it.
It did not move the story along, and it was way, way too wordy. I found myself skipping paragraphs or even pages.
I still consider myself a fan of Robertson, and I'm hoping he was just off his game on this one.
September 4, 2023
I LOVE this series, but….👇🏼
While it was a good book that kept me intrigued, I have to say that the series (which has been fun and exciting) has run it’s course…IMO. I love the two main characters, Dante and Blays, their witty banter and their personalities. BUT, enough is enough, every book they seem to come across a bigger foe and a new battle/enemy to contend with. I’m ready for them to have peace. Hopefully 🤞🏼 with this next book, ER gives it to them.
While it was a good book that kept me intrigued, I have to say that the series (which has been fun and exciting) has run it’s course…IMO. I love the two main characters, Dante and Blays, their witty banter and their personalities. BUT, enough is enough, every book they seem to come across a bigger foe and a new battle/enemy to contend with. I’m ready for them to have peace. Hopefully 🤞🏼 with this next book, ER gives it to them.
October 10, 2024
The good thing about this book is it's all action. The bad thing about this book is it's all action. This is the 18th book I've read in this world (I think) and it's true to the characters and style. It's not my favorite of them, but it was fun. I do get tired of all the new magic and races and places at a point. If you hate how Lord of the Rings is a lot of world travel... by all means DO NOT read this.
March 8, 2023
I’ve enjoyed most of this series of books. Slot machines reel you in through intermittent rewards, I found no rewards in this book just one dire emergency after another with no relief for the reader. If there is a next book in this series, I won’t be along for the ride. Sorry, but I’m done. I will still check out his other series because he’s genuinely a good writer, I’m just over this story.
April 3, 2023
I really like reading about these two, now three, and their adventures. However, this should have been the end of this story arc. End the darn Cycle and start a new one. It has new things in this one to go off on a whole new creative tangent but now.... I will read the next one, but I will not be happy about it.
April 5, 2023
I enjoyed the book but as many others have pointed out i felt pacing and character development was a bit off. Like some of the characters can do some horribe things and it has no consequences for them. Also some of the subplots seems a little bit meaningless.
In all though really enjoy the universe so hope the author is able to take this feedback and make the next book even better
In all though really enjoy the universe so hope the author is able to take this feedback and make the next book even better
February 14, 2023
Meh, the story line has gone on long enough to make compelling characters feel like dull knockoffs of themselves. Time for the series to end. It was mighty good for most of the stories.
There will almost certainly be another book the way this one ends, I will skip that one.
There will almost certainly be another book the way this one ends, I will skip that one.
January 10, 2024
There was a time when this was my favorite series going. I fear that time may be behind me. This volume started in the middle of some action, but despite that, it couldn't keep my attention. I hope Robertson goes back to having the characters drive the story.
March 7, 2023
I can tell that the characters are getting tired and the long fight is wearing on their souls. I think this shows excellent writing and character development.
August 29, 2023
I've loved the series, this book seemed a bit like stalling and dragged.
October 27, 2023
I guess there’s another book (spoiler alert)
Interesting turn of events. Has me pretty curious for the follow up book. “The little sorcerer”, is little more than more!!
Interesting turn of events. Has me pretty curious for the follow up book. “The little sorcerer”, is little more than more!!
August 14, 2024
This is the book where the cycle of defeating a foe just for a greater foe to appear gets redundant for me. I love the series up until this book.
December 25, 2025
Given a lot of the info we have gotten through this series, this title is questionable.
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