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The Shadow of What Was Lost (The Licanius Trilogy, #1)

James Islington

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May 25, 2020 Bookworm rated it liked it · review of another edition

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Not that familiar with epic fantasy so tackling this book was quite difficult for me. I felt I lost track of some important plot points and in the future may need to reread this to really know what happened.

There are so many different plotlines that really increase the story in scale exponentially. I honestly can't believe we started in a school and ended up where we did by the end of it. And it didn't even feel like 700 pages. I struggled to describe this book to my housemate talking about it ...more

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Nov 26, 2017 Tooms rated it really liked it

You could be excused when starting The Shadow of what was lost for thinking you had jumped in a time machine. It's the kind of epic fantasy in the tradition of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time series, or Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. The type of story that just isn't published in this day and age, and if James Islington had not self published it, I don't think we would have ever read it.

That would be a shame though because despite it's familiar feeling, it's a very good read. It has it's own twi ...more

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