The Emperor's Blades (Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, 1)

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I’m thrilled that you’re enjoying the book so much, and I’ll be curious to hear what you make of the ending. Tan goes at Kaden’s training with an unprecedented intensity, determined to teach him the ancient art of the vaniate, the empty trace toward which all the Shin aspire. It’s a burgeoning market, I think, and a bad narrator KILLS the experience for fans that are just as die-hard as your “readers”. Half the world away, Valyn too has his trials, and these are still more brutal than those his big brother must overcome.

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I’ll be curious to read how you include new settings and locations in Book 2, because one of my favorite things in TEB was The Bone Mountains and the setting of Ashk’Lan. Brothers go to Kenta where they separate ways and decide to meet at a particular monastery after a certain period of time.But Adare also believes she knows who murdered her father, and she will stop at nothing—and risk everything—to see that justice is meted out. The Providence of Fire will be out in just a few months, and it’s longer than TEB, so should take you some time.

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If you are ever down in Cape Town – you have loads of fans down here who would love to get a signed copy! It’s like Brian purposely wrote Adare to frustrate most of his readers and believe me, he succeeded.I think some readers expected someone who had been stuck in a temple learning from Monks for a decade to come out knowing everything but guess what, like most of us, Kaden leaves school only to discover he knows far less than he thought. Valyn - Now on the run with his wing from his elite military comrades, who he's lived and trained under for eight years, while constantly questioning who he can truly trust. All characters and the world in which they live are rich and multi-dimensional and make for a very enthralling experience. If these first two books are any indication of what The Last Mortal Bond is going to be like, then I know I won't be able to put it down! Most parts of the book was so tense that I had to hold my breath for a while, I was so scared for the siblings, I still am cause I have no idea how in kent kissing name they are going to get out of this mess especially with that ending.

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Thank you once again for writing and for sharing your world with us, and good luck in everything you do!I think you’ll be pleased with the direction of the next one — we get to see a lot more of the world (five or six new locations, depending on how you count), and there’s a new POV character in the mix, someone you’ve already met, but wasn’t a POV character in the first volume.

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Thousands of years ago, these personal defense shields were built to protect users from any type of object that could be fired from a weapon like a gun, laser, or presumably a bow and arrow. Often the original inspiration gets completely scrubbed away in the process of exploring the characters and plot. Hughes described its setting, the swampy river delta city of Dombâng, as the novel's "show-stealer" antagonist, and appreciated Staveley's "more confident, assured" narrative voice. An ocean away, Valyn endures the brutal training of the Kettral, elite soldiers who fly into battle on gigantic black hawks.The first volume won the Gemmell Morningstar Award for best debut novel and was nominated for the Locus Award and Goodreads Choice Awards. Anyone whom House Corrino decreed seditious or vile was sentenced to live out their remaining days in vicious conditions. At a certain point in the war they began to take human prisoners to try to better understand the intellectual and physical rot that afflicted their descendants. I’m thrilled that you’re enjoying the book — the good news is that you don’t need to read TOO slowly.