Inheritors of Chaos

Godfall #4

by Barbara Ann Wright

Naos has come to Calamity, and chaos has come with her. Cordelia had enough problems without teaming up with former enemies in order to defeat a mad goddess. And she doesn't yet know that the Storm Lord has been resurrected in a new body. On the plains, the prophet Lydia is convinced that Fajir is the one chosen to stop a massive firestorm in the future, if only Fajir wasn't so set on killing everyone around her. With their murderous leader dead, hostilities have ceased among the drushka, but the long-living aliens are slow to adapt. The last thing they want is a drushkan king with powers none of them dreamed of before.

329 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 12, 2019

About the author

Barbara Ann Wright writes fantasy and science fiction novels and short stories when not adding to her enormous book collection or ranting on her blog. Her short fiction has appeared twice in Crossed Genres Magazine and once made Tangent Online's recommended reading list. Her first novel, The Pyramid Waltz, was one of Tor.com's Reviewer's Choice books of 2012 and was a 2012 Foreword Review Book of the Year Award Finalist as well as a Golden Crown Award finalist. It won the 2013 Rainbow Award for Best Lesbian Fantasy and made BookRiot's 100 Must-Read Sci-Fi Fantasy Novels By Female Authors. She's won five Rainbow Awards total, and Coils was a finalist in the 2017 Lambda Awards.

Her writing career can be boiled down to two points: when her mother bought her a typewriter in the sixth grade and when she took second place in the Isaac Asimov Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing in 2004. One gave her the means to write and the other gave her the confidence to keep going. Believing in oneself, in her opinion, is the most important thing a person can do.

Visit her Bold Strokes page for more information.

Reviews

[Colleen Corgel · Rating 3 out of 5]

Okay, so this one's going to be strange, but hear me out. I did not finish this book because I had way too much trouble understanding what is happening with the characters and, well, everything. But, what I could glean was a pretty solid foundation that has obviously been established. Which makes me feel bad, because I don't feel like I can judge this book without having read the others due to the seemingly heavy reliance on the other books in the series.

I gave a neutral three stars because I could see so many positives, like the characters and the world building, but with out the groundwork from the past 4 novels, I'm just lost. So I am definitely going to give this a second read, but after I have read the other novels in the series.

Thank you to BSB and NetGalley for providing this ARC in exchange for my honest review.

[whataslacker · Rating 1 out of 5]

Never even finished it. I could not get into this book at all. I don't know if it was because I did not read the others in the series or if it was just a bad book for me.