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Malice (2012)
Others: Mostly positive "The Banished Lands has a violent past where armies of men and giants clashed in battle, but now giants are seen, the stones weep blood and giant wyrms are stirring. Those who can still read the signs see a threat far greater than the ancient wars. For if the Black Sun gains ascendancy, mankind's hopes and dreams will fall to dust ... and it can never be made whole again. Malice is a dark epic fantasy tale of blind greed, ambition, and betrayal."--
- ISBN:
- 9780316399739
- Length:
- 628 pages
Genres: fantasy
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MixedI feel like this series is wrapping up in a much more finessed and satisfying way than the malice series which I read last year and partially enjoy but didn't really like the end
Loved ithis combat scenes ese especially his group combat scenes are some of the best I've ever read in fantasy
Loved itthis had characters that were interesting and that I'm curious about how they're going to like grow and develop this had a lot of just like how all of these characters are going to come together how all these things are impacting different people in different parts of the world... this just a lot of setup for the rest of the series and everyone that I've talked to has been like the rest of the series is really good so I'm looking forward to this
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Loved itI liked it a lot. I thought it had a lot of potential, some really great starts to it with some distinct interesting characters that I cared about, but I don't know why I haven't yet going with the series, so I really should change that.
Loved itthis one's kind of like a more modern epic fantasy in the vein of more like a Song of Ice and Fire where it deals with a lot of kind of more political elements some really interesting you know these religious aspects going along with it
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MixedI read malice earlier this year. And it was fine. That's it, it was fine. And 600 pages of fine. And actually I was a little annoyed by the ending.
Loved itit's a really fun series even though it does have classic elements and tropes I do think it's one of those series that you're just going to enjoy if you like that and so I would definitely recommend giving this one a go