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The Blackest Heart (The Five Warrior Angels, #2)

by Brian Lee Durfee (Goodreads Author)

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"Love of god is not always equal to the love of good."

- The Angel Stone Codex

The Blackest Heart is another amazing installment in Brian Lee Durfee's The Five Warrior Angels series. I wasn't sure it could be done, but he has managed to su

"Love of god is not always equal to the love of good."

- The Angel Stone Codex

The Blackest Heart is another amazing installment in Brian Lee Durfee's The Five Warrior Angels series. I wasn't sure it could be done, but he has managed to surpass the greatness of the first book, which is also a stunning read. How did he do this you ask? Well, Durfee writes with a passion and unpredictability that I have rarely experienced. There are so many fantasy writers out there now, that I'm sure it's hard to be original without being compared to someone else. I can think of a couple of fantasy writers he reminds me of with his style, but I wouldn't dare compare him to them. No sir! Durfee has a unique style of his own and it really stands out in his characters personalities, his ability to keep the reader guessing, and how creative he is with each characters storyline.

"It is what we do with out own selves that defines us. Not where we came from. Or who gave us birth.

At 960 pages, this is a behemoth of a book. But don’t let that scare you away at all. Every word, page, and chapter are worth your time and attention. This is a very detailed world, with a rich history in both war and religion. This history is the real driving force of the series. It is molded into almost every fabric of the story, and the attention to detail Durfee put into this is really second to none. You may think that such a huge book, with a detailed world, and a slew of characters would be hard to follow. But that is not the case at all. The flow of the story was well thought out and it’s not like you have 20 characters, in 10 different places. The storylines tend to weave around each other and intersect at times. A lot of these characters are interacting with each other. You just get new perspectives from a different POV.

Well, I believe I have managed to convey how much I love these books without giving a trace of anything away. This series is seriously underrated. My goal was to show the passion I have for these books to hopefully influence my fellow fantasy lovers to give them a try. If you enjoy Epic fantasy, or fantasy at all for that matter, you won’t be disappointed. For me, this is right up there with The Stormlight Archive as most anticipated series going forward for the next few years. So, let that sink in all you Sanderson fans out there.

"The triumphant hero of any story should be neither wholly good nor wholly innocent, but should be full of both strength and weakness, righteousness and sin, truth and guilt, for contradiction are most interesting in the human soul.”

- The Chivalric Illuminations of Raijael

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Drumindor (The Riyria Chronicles, #5)

by Michael J. Sullivan (Goodreads Author)

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'Yes,' [said Caladan Brood.] 'You never learn.”
― Steven Erikson, Memories of Ice

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“It will be a dark day, a bloody day, a proud day, for this is the day of our wrath.”
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Those who are shameful will find honor.
Those who are shameless will not know honor.”
― Graeme Rodaughan, The Key of Ahknaton

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― J.R.R. Tolkien

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“No, emptiness is not nothingness. Emptiness is a type of existence. You must use this existential emptiness to fill yourself.”
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