Если ты подмастерье мага, будь готов к тому, что спокойная жизнь для тебя кончилась. Все маги по своей сути не самые лучшие люди. А уж если тебе достался в учителя чародей по имени Ворон, который всем известен своим скверным характером, то готовься к тому, что ничего хорошего в обозримом будущем тебя не ждет. Например, тебя могут отправить на войну — как раз потому, что ты ученик Ворона. Одно хорошо — не только тебя, но и всех твоих соучеников тоже. И наставника за компанию. Одному выживать тяжело, вместе проще. Или, наоборот, сложнее?
At times, I feel I was meant to be an innkeeper someplace on the outskirts of Bree in J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth. However, in real life, I am a much-celebrated Moscow-based author, as well as one of the originators of the relatively new, yet insanely popular, LitRPG genre that blends cyberpunk, classic sci-fi, and fantasy.
I started writing in my late 30’s and only “because there was nothing handy to read,” but after my first two books gained nearly instant acclaim, I had to give serious thought to changing my current banking career to that of a professional writer. Fortunately for my readers, who had voted his debut novel More Than a Game (link) the “Best Book of the Year 2014,” I never looked back after that.
Over the next few years, I continued work on the now-bestselling Fayroll series, maintained a blog, and participated in various multiple-author projects. I am also the author of The Raven’s Flock and The Arch series, which will soon be available in English.
Откровенная халтура. Тяжко продолжать читать, когда на протяжении всей серии главный герой постоянно ведёт себя как умственно отсталый подросток. Повествование какое-то поверхностное, персонажи неубедительные, много банальных и приевшихся сюжетных поворотов. Что же, так уж и быть, посмотрим, что из себя представляет четвёртая книга.
The students go to war. There are intrigues made by master Raven's enemies that result in all his students attending the war against the Nodrings (similar to Vikings) that invaded the nearby coastal towns. Instead of his best students (that are still mostly untrained) he is forced to bring all of them.
Erast encounters other masters and their students and yet again wonders at the age long enmity between the 4 surviving students from the same year. The depravity and the machinations that turned 4 former friends into former enemies.
The rising might of Lindus, a ruler of Ayront and his ambitions to create an empire, forces countless others to experience pain and death all for the sake of one man's ambition. The underlying philosophy of the books so far has been the trappings of power and the inevitable corruption by power, whether the source of that power is magic or accident of birth. Definitely a foreshadowing of things to come.