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Morgan Shank

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Born

in The United States

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Genre

Fantasy, Fiction

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Joe Abercrombie, Don Winslow, Nicholas Eames

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In middle school, Morgan finally broke away from incoherent clumps of algebra to fill a composition notebook with his first handwritten novel. Since then, he's imagined his own Skyrim rather than fumble through objective studies.

For reasons unknown to anyone, he somehow found his way into a trucking gig, and he now enjoys a day job hauling freight. When he’s not trucking or writing, Morgan spends his time dabbling in landscape photography, running Spartan Races, and staring at the mountains that surround his hometown of Harrisonburg, VA, in the USA, which provide ample inspiration for his fantasy novels. ...more

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Average rating: 4.06 · 160 ratings · 100 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Low Country (Low Country Trilogy, #1) 3.95 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 2023 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Die Young 4.30 avg rating — 27 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Savage Country (Low Country Trilogy, #2) by Morgan Shank (Goodreads Author), Kyle Robertson (Editor) 4.04 avg rating — 24 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Silent Country (Low Country Trilogy #3) by Morgan Shank (Goodreads Author), Kyle Robertson (Goodreads Author) (editor) 3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2024 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	ETHOS by Benjamin Aeveryn (Goodreads Author), E.J. Doble (Goodreads Author), James Lloyd Dulin (Goodreads Author) 4.63 avg rating — 8 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Die Slow (Runeborn Trilogy Book 2) by Morgan Shank (Goodreads Author), Kyle Robertson (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bygone 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Low Country Trilogy (3 books)
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Kyle Robertson (Goodreads Author) (editor)

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Runeborn (1 book)
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The Justice of Kings (Empire of the Wolf, #1)

by Richard Swan (Goodreads Author)

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Morgan Shank rated a book it was amazing Gardens of the Moon (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #1) by Steven Erikson (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
There's not much I can say about this masterpiece that hasn't already been said, so I will simply say that this book inspired me. I've always dreamed of writing a world-spanning epic fantasy tale that brims with unique characters, complex magic, and ...more
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There's not much I can say about this masterpiece that hasn't already been said, so I will simply say that this book inspired me. I've always dreamed of writing a world-spanning epic fantasy tale that brims with unique characters, complex magic, and ...more
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I've read mixed reviews on this book, and I understand the dilemma. This doesn't read like Abercrombie's other novels. From someone who built a reputation off character-driven fantasy, (or at least off of INTERESTING characters, as I know some reader ...more
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I've read mixed reviews on this book, and I understand the dilemma. This doesn't read like Abercrombie's other novels. From someone who built a reputation off character-driven fantasy, (or at least off of INTERESTING characters, as I know some reader ...more
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Morgan Shank rated a book it was amazing Asunder by Kerstin Hall (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Read this book. I literally forgot to update my reading progress until after finishing this novel, and posting this review feels like an inadequate game of catch-up. I love character-driven dark fantasy, but even in this genre, a few novels stand out ...more
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I like nothing better than a nice bit of dark fantasy with some monsters, mayhem, and magic. Couple that with pages of foggy coastlines, eerie moors, stormy nights, and you get a wonderfully vivid novel that deserves to be read on cool, rainy evening ...more
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