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Warning: there are spoilers here if you haven’t read City of Secrets.
A direct sequel to the short but very enjoyable City of Secrets, this explores Witch Hunter Hanniver Toll’s single-minded pursuit of ex-High Arbiter Ortam Vermyre. Leaving Excelsis behind, Toll and ex-Freeguild soldier Armand Callis pursue their enemy across the land, sea and air as Vermyre seeks out a long-lost artefact with the power to inflict untold damage on the Mortal Realms. It’s a journey that forces them to call upon a ...more
A direct sequel to the short but very enjoyable City of Secrets, this explores Witch Hunter Hanniver Toll’s single-minded pursuit of ex-High Arbiter Ortam Vermyre. Leaving Excelsis behind, Toll and ex-Freeguild soldier Armand Callis pursue their enemy across the land, sea and air as Vermyre seeks out a long-lost artefact with the power to inflict untold damage on the Mortal Realms. It’s a journey that forces them to call upon a ...more

A massive improvement over previous installments in the series. The author has clearly been studying his classics of pulp fiction as this has that magical resonance of stock archetypes moving at a relentless pace through an absolute spectacle of fantastical scenarios. This takes the best elements of sword-and-sorcery, piratical tales, and planetary swashbuckling and mashes them together for one of the more enjoyable tales set in the Mortal Realms.

Mar 10, 2024
Rob Landon
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