Author: Harry Turtledove
Book 5 of 6: Darkness (World at War)
Genres: Sword & Sorcery, Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, magic, Contemporary Literature
The moment I saw the cover, I fell in love with this book. I know we can’t judge a book by its cover but still, a beautiful cover makes you buy a book faster and this cover helped me buy it very fast. And later when I read the book, I was introduced to a great world created by Mr. Harry Turtledove and I fell in love with his writing style also. I read all the books in this series and got all the books by the writer; reviews to all his books coming soon.
This book is one of the best of this series and one of the reasons is the way main characters reach what they are supposed to be in a huge saga and the development took its time but that is how a character must develop in a long story; in simple terms that are not useful here are “coming of age” it doesn’t mean they were kids or early teens reaching adulthood, I used the term to describe what it’s like to read the stories of these characters realizing their full potential or in some cases become strong and able to fight the reality of the world and situation they are in.
This book is long and the series is long as well, I thought of many options and reasons to give it less than perfect points but found nothing; it is long but not boring. On every page, you are thinking a hero or a person that is on the good side is going to get caught or die. You can actually read this book as a standalone novel because the detail is so great that you get the story without even reading the previous four parts but I recommend you read them all. The fourth part was not so great so if you start this book series from the first book, then please don’t stop at the fourth, because in this part you will start to see the results of the fourth part and going to understand why it was slow or not so fast paced (It is not a bad book, I am just comparing it to this book.)
Synopsis:
“The grand conflict for control of the continent of Derlavai rages on, in a battle with all the drama and terror of the Second World War - but for artillery and bombers, read magical fire and dragons. Yet hope may be dawning at last. The terrible onslaught of the conquering forces of Algarve - who power their battle magics with the life energy of their murdered victims - begins to founder as it runs into Habakkuk: a sorcerous ship of ice used by the embattled nations of Lagoas and Kuusamo to ferry their deadly dragons across the seas to war. But though the tide has begun to turn, the conflict is far from over. The widely disdained Kaunians still struggle desperately to escape as the Algarvians kill them by the thousands - for life energy, but also simply for the crime of being Kaunian. And as the death of innocent civilians on both sides continues to feed the flames of war, those who have struggled to survive and preserve their freedom have only their will to see them through...”
Rating: 100/100
Recommended: 100/100 YES.
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Series: Darkness
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02: Darkness Descending https://amzn.to/3wXvlXL
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05: Jaws of Darkness https://amzn.to/3kRq8hz
06: Out of the Darkness https://amzn.to/2UBq1w5
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