I just finished reading another book with a similar premise (1,000 years of peace in a fantasy world coming to an end) so this isn't the most original concept. But I always like to say there is no original concept, just authors writing from their own unique perspectives.

I didn't finish this book. I made it to 46% and realized that I just didn't care. There was a lot of fighting, magic, and some really likeable people, but I had no idea where any of the story was headed. If I had even the slightest bit of a clue then I would have continued reading. Once I realized this was going to be a series of books, I quit. If Mr. Munro was waiting until the end of the first book to clue me in, then he waited too long. My thanks to Inkshares, and Netgalley for letting me preview this book.

Wow. This book was A LOT. This is definitely not a book that you can casually pick up and read a bit at a time and hope to keep everything straight after putting it down for any amount of time. I read this in just a few long stretches and STILL had some times where I wasn't sure what was happening, but I'll put that down to just not being used to epic fantasies like this and nothing the book/author did wrong.

That said, the only perspectives I really didn't care for was that of Jenus and sometimes Maura, but that's mostly because liked Salt, Nial and Carver so much I would rather have focused on just them most of the time and overall didn't feel like I missed much I'm the overall story when I ended up skimming those sections a bit. Unfortunately I felt that if I didn't skim the parts that bored me, I would have DNF'd this and that's sad. This is why I deducted the 0.5 star. I didn't take more off because part of this might have been easier to deal with in a physical copy and I read this as an ebook.

As I said before, I'm still pretty new to the epic fantasy genre and so the plethora of different POVs still give me a hard time, but anyone who is comfortable with it will probably devour this book.

The magic was fun, if overpowered, but sometimes I like that. It gave me Dragonball Z vibes with massively powerful godlike beings just go at each other and let's see what happens.

Overall, I'm incredibly grateful for being given a chance to read this and will be very interested in reading future books.

I really like the story and the way it was written and the way the story flows. Its an imaginative and personality driven story to me.