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Deck Matthews

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Born

Canada

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https://varkaschronicles.com/

Twitter

varkaschronicle

Genre

Fantasy

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Brandon Sanderson,
Brent Weeks,
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May 2009

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Deck Matthews is a pseudonym for one particular Matthew Ward. He is a life-long reader who fell in love with writing and fantasy in middle school. He remains an avid reader, a casual gamer and a dabbler in the visual arts. He has worked as a designer and currently spends his days neck-deep in code as a front-end web developer.

He also holds a Master’s degree in English Literature and currently resides in Ottawa, Canada with his wife, two daughters and one little fluff ball of a dog named Wicket.

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Average rating: 4.38 · 345 ratings · 190 reviews · 13 distinct works • Similar authors

	The First of Shadows (The Riven Realm #1) 4.12 avg rating — 119 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dust of the Darkness (The Riven Realm #2) 4.34 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Shattering of Glass (The Riven Realm #3) 4.45 avg rating — 42 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Melding Thief (Varkas Tales #2) 4.53 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In the Tower of the Witching Tree (Varkas Tales #1) 4.44 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Riven Realm - Volume 1 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beyond the Shimmering (The Portal of Tears, #1) 4.89 avg rating — 9 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Harlequin of Hate (Varkas Tales #3) 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wrath in the Woods (The Riven Realm #4) 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lion in the Maw (Varkas Tales #4) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Riven Realm (3 books)
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Varkas Tales (3 books)
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The Gates of Twilight

by Paula Volsky

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Seafire (Seafire, #1)

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One Flew Over The Event Horizon

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“All at once, the world turned to ashen winter under the frosty kiss of despair.”
― Deck Matthews, Dust of the Darkness

tags: despair, suddenly

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“The golden half light of dusk was giving way to the deepening, velveteen shadows of the night when the orange firelight appeared like a flickerwisp between the trees.”
― Deck Matthews, A Shattering of Glass

tags: campfire, night

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