The Wheel of Osheim (The Red Queen's War, #3)

by Mark Lawrence

“History,” Darin said. “You can find it in books.” “Pah. All history has taught us is we don’t learn from history.”

A sword is a tongue: it speaks and gives eloquent voice to violence, seeking out a foe’s vitals and ending him. An axe only roars. The wounds it gives are ruinous