Loved itI wasn't expecting to love it as much as I did. This was a really wonderful surprise for me when I read it.
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Umbral Storm (2022)
Others: Overwhelmingly positive - ISBN:
- 9781734257458
- Length:
- 586 pages
Genres: fantasy
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Loved it
Loved itit is perfectly build like that it is a long huge sprawling Epic Fantasy in the Brandon Sanderson kind of mold of fantasy of modern fantasy but it also has this amazing progression aspect to it
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