Rating 4/5

Evan Winter makes a solid debut with this African inspired military fantasy. With solid characterisations and non-stop action sequences, The Rage of Dragons is fast paced and manages to keep you on the edge of your seat.
I loved the setting, the dragons (of course), and I loved the main character - Tau.

If you love battles and fight sequences, this is THE book for you! Highly recommended.

Thoroughly enjoyable but a few too many battle scenes for me. However I do fully understand the hype and high ratings that this accomplished fantasy debut has received.

- DNF @ 12% -

The Ohemi have been at war for centuries. Some of them have powers, including being able to summon dragons.
Tau has no gift and wants a simple life with his own land and family.
However, when Tau's friends and family are killed, he turns to revenge. Tau is intent on becoming a master swordsman and tracking down those that wronged him and his loved ones.

I have to admit that when I started The Rage of Dragons I wasn't sure how much I would enjoy it, but it has dragons in so I was interested in what it would be like.
Unfortunately, it was obvious pretty much straight away that I wasn't going to enjoy it.
I would have liked a lot more description in certain places to make things easier to visualise.
There were a lot of terms introduced at once that I felt weren't really explained.
There were also a lot of characters introduced at a time and I found it hard to work out who was who more than once.
While I liked that there was action from the very beginning, I would have liked at least a few pages setting the scene or giving more of an insight into the village and Tau's life, because it felt a bit skimmed over and rushed.
I liked the concept, but I really struggled to connect with the writing and the story, and so decided to stop reading.
I may attempt to read a finished copy of this book at some point, in the hopes that some of my gripes have been worked on.

Unfortunately, this wasn't for me.

This book really came out of nowhere for me and I really enjoyed it. It tells the story of Tau, a young lesser who embarks on a plan for revenge when his father is brutally murdered by a noble.

The Positives: The world building is so immersive and incredibly detailed, which I loved. It was so refreshing to read an epic fantasy with African folkloric elements and I think that Evan Winter has done a fantastic job of creating this world. I loved all of the training school elements of the narrative. Although this is a reasonably common plot device in fantasy, I thought it was really well done here and that the brutality of the training really came across. This is a pretty graphic novel, in terms of violence, but it never felt gratuitous in any way - instead, it just contributed to the overall sense of danger that Winter has created. I think that the magic system is very intriguing and we were given enough information to understand the rules,without becoming too exposition-heavy.

The Negatives: Tau is pretty insufferable throughout, which made it difficult to connect to him. There were also quite a few instances of misogyny in the narrative, which I think were intended to demonstrate the nature of the society we are dealing with, but they were still unpleasant to read.

Overall, this was an incredibly impressive debut that should be on a lot more people's radar and I would recommend it to anyone who enjoyed The Poppy War.

I received a free copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for a fair and honest review.

Received from Little Brown Book Group UK and Netgalley for honest read and review.
Wow.wow.wow.wow.
Had this on my TBR list for a while and kept looking at cover,saying to myself,ok will try it when nothing else to read,.Well I wish I had read this one sooner.

Hands down one of the best Fantasy Books I have read.The Rage of Dragons is up there with De Castell,Rothfuss etc as my best ever.I have read a few over the years,and this one had me hooked .It had everything you want,coming of age good guy,bad guys(supposedly),friends,lovers and of course dragons.....

This is a story they grabs you and does not let go until Tau, who us the main POV tries to get vengeance for his father's death.It keeps giving and giving ,with such wonderful writing and brilliant characters.

"He would fight until he won or he died. There would be, he swore, no days without difficulty"

* * * 
3 / 5

The Rage of Dragons has been getting a good rep in book reviewing circles for its epicness, African-inspired setting, and readability. I’m here to offer a slightly controversial opinion: this book was okay.

"Life is nothing more than moments in time. To achieve greatness, you have to give up those moments. You have to give your life to your goal"

Some people are born lucky. They are able to make themselves stronger, faster, bigger. The rarest can even call down dragons. Tau of the Omehi is not lucky. All he’s got is his determination not to be caught up in the war of his people, who sailed here years ago and have been fighting against the native population ever since. Tau wants to get out, find a nice girl, get married and settle down. A noble goal. I liked this about Tau, his unconventional (at least in terms of YA/adult fantasy novels) dream and his more gentle nature. Unfortunately, the book throws Tau down the path of violence anyway when his father is killed.

He decides to become THE GREATEST SOLDIER WHO EVER LIVED. Cue my eye roll please. He joins the militia, gets up super early and never sleeps, and becomes a great swordsman. To be honest, I thought the way that this was done reeked a bit too much of fantasy fulfilment and was a little bit, well, cringey. It was the book version of that scene in a movie where the character goes from skinny and weak to jacked and able to defeat anyone.

"A dragon had been called, and someone would have to die"

I found the setting both refreshing and confusing. Like other readers, I appreciated that the author drew on a variety of African cultures to create a setting that felt vibrant and new, with a fresh take on integrating magic into a society. But most of the time I felt confused. The society is hierarchical based on who has gifts and who doesn’t, fine. But then there’s the complicated history with the dragons, why Tau’s people have come to this island, why they are fighting the natives so viciously. I had a lot of questions and I didn’t find enough answers to satisfy me.

The Rage of Dragons is a long book and at times it definitely felt like it. I love a good fighting scene (and this book has them), but c’mon, there’s only so many I can read before I start yawning and checking the page count. I also found that it didn’t impact me much, emotionally speaking. Like any classic fantasy novel, it’s got some betrayals. Whilst I didn’t see them coming, I also didn’t much care due to the lack of fully fleshed out secondary characters. The Queen, for example, plays a large role plotwise, but gets scarcely a handful of words. More time is spent describing how pretty she is than on her speaking.

The Rage of Dragons didn’t wow me. It was entertaining in an indulging sort of way; I’ve definitely spent time daydreaming about being the best swordsman ever, taking down the system. But to be truly memorable, this book needed more depth, more character exploration, and less fight scenes.

My thanks to Netgalley, the publisher, and the author for an ARC of The Rage of Dragons.

<I>The rage of dragon</I> is a multi layered tale of revenge and hatred laid in a rich and complex African inspired setting. I'm going to shamefully admit that I had no intention of reading this book until I saw it on NetGalley. Most of popular epic fantasy books that I’ve read so far don’t work me and I had no reason to believe this would be different. To be honest, at this point I just read epic fantasy to whine about them. :d
This book happened to be a pleasant surprise and I found myself actually enjoying the story.

The story follows Tau, a young man who prefers to start a family rather than being a 'hero' in an endless war. It all changes when he loses someone he loves. Then we follow him through his path for revenge.

If it wasn't for the gradual development, the Tau at the end of the book is almost unrecognisable from the optimistic boy in the beginning. But the transition is slow and gradual and it doesn't feel rushed at all. At some point in the middle I thought the story was getting repetitive, but now that I've finished it I think everything was necessary for character development. The transition doesn't happen over night and I think it's really important to get to see his initial success and failures to truly understand his sacrifice and the <I>thing</I> he eventually becomes.

Although I think his characterisation is well done, Tau isn't always easy to like. Sometimes he becomes downright frustrating. But the good thing about this story is that you don’t have to necessarily like the protagonist to enjoy it. When he makes mistakes the narrative acknowledges it and it doesn’t make him a saint.
Tau as a protagonist is not very likeable but he's very very compelling. He carries so much rage and he follows his goal so single-mindedly that it becomes impossible not to care about his quest.

Even though I’m used to reading stories about Mary Sue characters, I think it was great that this story didn’t follow the same path. Tau isn't exceptionally talented at anything and it made the story more intense. He can't just walk in there and prove to his enemies that he's better than any one else, because he truly isn't. His only advantage is his dedication and the amount of effort he's willing to put. This all leads him to make a horrifying choice and the ultimate sacrifice. When I reached that point I was shocked and amazed and I just wanted to sing this book's praise. The fact that he’s not a Mary Sue forces him to chose a dark path and it made everything more interesting.

The magic system is also brilliant and imaginative. For some reason this reminded me of <I>Elantris</I>. The magic in these two book is clever, brilliant and horrifying. It's the exact opposite of magic systems that are wish-fulfilmenty (Is that even a word? never mind every time I write reviews I make up a new word)
The magic isn’t nice and fluffy and once you know the price I don’t think anybody will want to have it. As I said, the exact opposite of wish-fulfilmenty magic.

Overall this was a pleasant surprise and I really enjoyed it. Until days after I finished it I was still thinking about it. So it’s not just quick action and formulaic plot. For me at least, it gave me a lot to think about and this fact alone makes it a great book.

*Special thanks to NetGalley for providing the ARC*

My main problem with this book was that it was such a generic fantasy. I couldn't tell it apart from any other warrior fantasy. The world is full of castes that exist solely to provide an obstacle to our low-caste hero. He's on a path of vengeance, so must learn how to fight so he can challenge his upper-caste enemies - the people who killed his father. It's full of training scenes and mock battles. Tau's growth isn't away from vengeance, but his growth and achievements were all about improving as a fighter.

This meant I found no emotional connection to him. I didn't want him to succeed, or win a fight. I found his obsession with killing these people irritating, and the way  he was going about seeking 'justice'. I simply wanted a fight scene to be over so we could have a human moment, but he went from a battle to the training ground.

To compound the warrior fantasy feel, there is only one female character (the queen etc don't count as they have no impact on the story). She doesn't impact the plot at first, and is simply a love interest. Then she so happens to end up in the same place as Tau (the main character) to help him gain a fighting edge by explaining the magic system. She didn't change at all and I can't describe her personality or interests.

At the start, the world building is very thin, so trying to figure out the world and all the different titles/roles was almost impossible. Even when I gave up, I didn't have the various names worked out. I floated along, unable to understand the action. After a few chapters, the world building is dumped in, rather than woven.

In THE RAGE OF DRAGONS, the prologue provides a detailed look a period of history that could have been covered (and was) in a matter of lines elsewhere.

It is so removed from the rest of the book, set almost 200 years before, with different characters that we spend ages with (as the 'chapters' are actually five or six chapters with titles but no number grouped under a 'chapter x' header). None of them showed up again (being dead because of the 200 years jump).

Maybe it was important to later on in the book, but I like my prologues to be directly linked to the entire book. Not a 'oh' reveal two pages before the end, when you final realise the connection. It made me very confused when I started chapter one, as I was expecting the same characters but got someone else entirely.

What also didn't help was that the years were called cycles. To me, a cycle is a month, so I wondered why they were referring to something two hundred cycles back as the distant past. That meant that I was still expecting the characters from the prologue to turn up until I clocked the time difference.

The Rage of Dragons was brilliant. I can’t stop recommending it. Packed with great characterization, a brilliant story and great premise, I was hooked. I actually had to slow my pace with this one so that I could savor it. I’m a sucker for all things dragon-related, and this book was perfect for that. I can’t wait to read the next in the series.

I really enjoyed this African set epic fantasy, which meditated on loss, revenge and redemption. Tau starts off as your classic reluctant hero, not at all interested in being involved in the unwinnable war which has raged for the last 200 yrs. A traumatic event sets him on a path for revenge. I can take or leave revenge arcs because so often authors pull their punches at the last but Tau’s arc is very satisfying. The plot will be familiar to any fan of epic fantasy but the author delivers it in a fresh engaging way with explosive pacing. One not to miss.

Let's start at the beginning. The story has a fantastic strong start, with a battle on a beach that seems unwinnable, until the dragons arrive, with the kind of fire and destruction that would make Daenerys proud.

A Queen is leading her people, the Omehi, to a new land. They are out of options, they can't return to the sea, so they have to repel the 'savages' that already live there by using the dragons that they control. But using these dragons comes as a price.

Nearly two hundred years later, we meet Tau, a young man of a lower caste. He is expected to past the intense test to join the Ihashe, the lower caste military, like his father before him. This will mean one year (a cycle) of training, compared to the three cycles that the Indlovu (the Noble class) receive. He will then be sent to battle the savages that still push against the Omehi's borders. If he fails, he will become a Drudge, little more than voiceless workers. Tau isn't particularly skilled with the sword, and lacks the motivation to wield it - what he really wants is to pass his year of training, and then spend the rest of his life with handmaiden Zuri.

When tragedy strikes, as a result of his own arrogance, Tau becomes determined to be the best to wreak vengeance on the Nobles. Even if he passes the Ihashe test, he knows his one cycle of training will never be enough to compete with the natural advantages of a full-blood Noble, so he must train harder and faster in order to take on their Champion.

Meanwhile, the hedeni raids continue, deeper into Omehi territory. A young Queen is on the throne and we learn more and more about the Gifted - the female-only magic system in this world that requires the user to draw power from Isihogo, the demon world and underworld.

What I loved:
The complexity - I love a complex political system, societal rules, magic casting system - all of these things scream fantasy to me. And I completely understand that some people might get quickly turned off by all of this - from the very start you are thrown into a world of complex terminology with very little explanation - castes, the Gifted, the Chosen, Ingonyama, Indlovu - there are lots of unfamiliar words and the caste system itself means that people are known by their caste, their subset, their honorifics ... but seriously, stick with it. Once you've worked it out, you will be swept up in it all.

The world - Small group of people who have the colonial attitude of being 'Chosen' fighting to keep control of a land they never owned in the first place? Mysterious savages beyond the border (who we all know will not be as mindlessly savage as the Omehi portray them to be)? The closeness between the living and the world of demons? Where myth crosses into reality? Love it.

The pacing - these are some short punchy chapters and that really helped me to power through this story. Each mini-chapter seems to end on yet another cliffhanger or crisis, meaning that it is pleasurably exhausting reading and urges you on to the next chapter.

The action - I lost track of how many training sessions I read, how many skirmishes, how many melées, how many fights ... this was some intense writing and every fight was different.

The politics - aside from the Nobles/Lessers and overall caste system, the political machinations in this novel sneak up on you, and the main characters, until they all become swept up in something that is bigger them all. I liked that.

What I didn't love:
The action - I know, I just said I liked it. But seriously, there's a battle or a fight every few pages. I applaud Winter's ability to keep them fresh and engaging but there's very little else happening - the majority of the rest of the story happens off-stage.

Tau - Tau, in many ways, is a great character. He's also a Marty Stu of a character. He trains to become faster, better and stronger than anyone else. There are times when he's railing about injustice as though he's the only one to have ever both felt it and acted on it. Yes, he has to train to be the best, to sacrifice so much of himself. But it means that he loses his personality along the way. At the beginning he is young, inexperienced and yearns for a peaceful life. In one violent moment, all of that is forgotten and he is desperate to become the ultimate weapon, with no reflection on who he used to be. It feels a little too close to the revenge fantasy trope.

The POV - virtually the whole of The Rage of Dragons is told from Tau's point of view. There are a couple of chapters where you get a new POV - Aren (Tau's father), Jayyed (the commander of Tau's fighting group) and one single solitary woman for a brief moment - a fighter from the hedoni - but these are single chapters, they don't get another POV again. (Apart from those of the Queens in the Prologue and Epilogue). In reality, your only narrator and observer is Tau. Where are the women? I would have loved to get some Zuri chapters, or a character from the Queen's palace. Just some variety. Cut out another trainging fight and replace it with something a bit more political to change the pace. It's like having Game of Thrones from Jon Snow's POV but without any Tyrion or Daenerys to balance it out.

Overall:
I really enoyed it - I did! But it was the last 30% of action that really cinched it for me.

DNF at page 246.

Unpopular opinion time. If you have a title with dragon in it and mention dragons at the start, I am going to have high expectations. They were not met. I struggled so much to pick this up that at the end I decided to DNF at the midway point.

The world building is African inspired and it was the thing I liked the most about it. It could have been deepened out more around the magic but I think it was just about heading into that when I stopped reading.

Honestly I struggled reading this book because I was bored and had to resist skim reading. The start with the interactions of the mc’s family and friends was interesting. It gave more dynamic. However after that it slowly dwindled. The plot is that of revenge and it gives the MC a very one track mind. Up to the point where it was hard to see if he had any personality left. He was not that interesting to read. If you do the revenge plot you need to make it appeal to readers and in this case it didn’t to me. There is a lot of fighting. Constantly actually. There are very few breaks in between for deepening out characters and when they are, they aren’t exploited as well as they should have been.

I also wasn’t quite feeling the couple in this. She deserves better than a twat who tells her he thinks about her as much as he does about sword fighting. He believed it himself too. Please, no you don’t. You only thought of her because you saw her. Rolling eyes.

The use of the word savage was a lot. Now this is written by an African man and the word is aimed at the silver skinned ones. I want to trust that this is done well but I can’t help but feel this might trigger those that are very sensitive to the use of the word. But as a white person it isn’t entirely my place to judge either. I still wanted to mention it though for those that might be triggered by seeing the word on page.

This is a fantasy series to keep an eye on! I flew through The Rage of Dragons so quickly - it was simply impossible to put down!

This story gave me all the things I love in fantasy- dragons, an underdog to get behind, epic battles, headstrong characters fuelled by passion, a unique magic system...this book had it all.

It was a fast paced, action packed story, and I honestly can't wait to get my hands on the next books.

I loved the setting, I loved the characters, I loved the culture, and I just can't express how I honestly feel this is a series with such incredible potential!

In my opinion there aren't enough fantasy books with diverse rep, but this book was a breath of fresh air! I loved Tau, I felt his strife and passion the whole way through his journey. I laughed, I cried (yep that's right...cried) and I was so excited to be taken along on this awesome journey.

I 100% recommend this book to fantasy lovers, and I despite having recieved an eARC I've already bought a physical copy and plan to do the same with the next installment - that's how much I enjoyed this book.

I can't wait to see what happens next and I can't wait for this book to find its way into more people's hands.

What a fantastic debut!

The characters and world were really well developed and the short chapters made this a very fast read! It was so easy to just keep saying 'go on, one more chapter' because they were short which kept the plot moving quickly

An amazing debut for a new series. I loved this book, the world building that mixes different mythologies, and the fleshed out characters.
It's a page turner that kept me hooked till the last page making me turn pages as fast as I could.
The fast paced plot makes it engrossing and entertaining.
I look forward to reading the next installment in this series.
Highly recommended!
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine.

A really good, exciting book that mixes various mythologies and retells them in a fresh and engaging manner, I will be preordering the next book post haste!

This is an impressive debut. The magic system is interesting and well-constructed and the world building is excellent. I could imagine myself there and Winter handles the complicated political situation well and doesn’t dump all of the information in one go, which makes the story flow well.

I really enjoyed the plot. I do love a good tale of revenge and this was a good one. I wanted Tau to succeed in his aims even though at one point his tactic of just running at his intended kill with his swords annoyed me. Think before you murder, Tau. I was actually surprised that he wasn’t killed many times over. Apart from that slight annoyance, I liked Tau and the other characters were fun to read, especially as the story built. The novel ends at just the right place to make you want to read what happens next but it doesn’t outstay its welcome with unnecessary filler.

The Rage of Dragons is a book I would recommend. It is violent and dark with a compelling story and a main character you want to succeed. It blends its threads seamlessly, going from a simple story of revenge and upping the stakes until there’s rebellion, treason and lots of death. I very much enjoyed reading this book and I look forward to seeing what Winter comes up with next.

4.5 stars

The Rage of Dragons is a blazing African-inspired epic fantasy debut that was so possessive of my attention, it simply wouldn’t allow me to read anything else until I finished it.

This book was originally self-published and released in September 2017. Honestly speaking, I have seen and known about this book since then but the book wasn’t able to move up the monstrosity that is my TBR tower for some reason. However, its acquisition by Orbit, which resulted in a brand new gorgeous cover art done by the ingenious Karla Ortiz, is a total cover seller—look at the Zulu shield and the intricately apt mural in the cover!—that practically screamed “Buy and read me now” to me, and so that’s what I did.

“I’d rather live with a thing done poorly than do nothing and always wonder how things could have been.”

I believe that the ARC of the book is on its way to me at the moment. Even with that information in mind, knowing that the ebook was already available to purchase (physical copies will be out in July) I bought it to give my support to the author. I was only going to read a few chapters but I ended up being completely hooked and read through it like Sonic the Hedgehog being lured by infinite golden coins; it was too addictive to stop. Let me just say this again before I begin my review. The equation is simple; a fantasy debut published by Orbit these days is for me equal to “I want it.” I haven’t been disappointed at all by the adult fantasy debuts released by Orbit—Kings of the Wyld, Age of Assassins, Jade City, Senlin Ascends, and The Gutter Prayer—over the past few years and The Rage of Dragons once again continues that trend.

“That’s the price. Life is nothing more than moments in time. To achieve greatness, you have to give up those moments. You have to give your life to your goal.”

The Rage of Dragons is an African (Xhosa) inspired epic fantasy debut by Evan Winter, and it is the first installment in The Burning quartet. The people of Omehi have been caught in an unwinnable war for almost two hundred years, and the story revolves around our main character, the young and gift-less Tau. Tau is determined to just settle down, get married, and live in peace. However, an unfortunate event causes his entire motivation to shift towards the path of vengeance. I really suggest going into this book without knowing about the story, but if you want to know more, the blurb on Goodreads and Amazon is there for you to check out.

At its core, the main theme of the novel is revenge. The best comparison I can think of for this book is Pierce Brown’s sci-fi debut, Red Rising. Don’t get me wrong, the prose is totally different in style and there aren’t any sci-fi elements in this book; but the story progression, the injustice in a social hierarchy, the explosive pacing, and the main character truly made me feel like I was reading Red Rising, which I highly loved. As with Darrow—the main character from Red Rising, I wouldn’t say that I love Tau as the main character, but both Tau and Darrow have this crucial entertaining element for me; they are utterly compelling main characters. Tau is a person with indomitable determination; guided by palpable fury and rage on his road to revenge, his resolve was simply unbending and even though I didn’t really like some of his actions and certain elements of his personality, I found his motivations to be realistically believable and worth reading.

“I can’t imagine a world where the man holding a sword does not have the last say over the man without one. If you’re not prepared to fight, you place yourself and everything you love beneath the blades of others, praying they choose not to cut. I have felt the mercy of armed men and they will never find me helpless again.”

Told mostly from Tau’s third-person perspective narrative, the accessible prose that never gets in the way of the story enhanced the engrossing flow of the book. Although the storyline was a bit predictable, I found the execution and pacing to be absolutely brilliant. There was always something going on; it was fast-paced, incredibly engaging, and brimming with tension. If I have to choose the most outstanding aspect of the book, it would definitely be the battle scenes. It’s been so long since I’ve read a debut with close-quarter battle scenes of the high caliber featured within this novel; it felt like reading Abercrombie’s gritty action sequences. Every battle was easy to follow, gripping, and vivid. The heart-pounding actions never stop escalating until the climax sequences. Believe me, there was a barrage of awesome duels, and I simply can’t get enough of them. Winter combines cinematic scenes and economical characterizations wonderfully. There was never any moment where the characters were just fighting emotionlessly like robots. The brief respites between one danger and the next were very efficiently utilized for characterizations and emphasizing characters’ motivations clearly.

“It was the purity of it, the honesty. When Tau sparred, it was just him and his opponent. All that mattered was experience, skill, determination, and will. The rest of the world slipped away, leaving only the next move, the next counter, the next attack, the next victory.

The magic system and the demonic aspect of the book were both clever and felt refreshing. I also loved reading every section that involved Isihogo; I’ll leave that for you to find out for yourself. Admittedly, I had two minor issues with the book that prevented me from giving it a full 5 stars rating. The first was that it took some time for me to get used to the in-world terminologies. There were only a few explicit explanations and it’s up to the reader to understand what each term meant through the context of the story; there was a quite lot and in my opinion, a glossary would help. Although by the end I have understood almost all of them, it took half of the book for me to get a grasp on what most of the words/terms/honorifics meant. The other issue was that I feel the book would’ve benefited from more noteworthy female characters, especially after considering how the female characters in this series have the potential to be extremely powerful and flawed in personality. There were only two noteworthy female characters throughout the whole book and one of them appeared only near the end. That being said, seeing the way the story concluded in the first book, there’s a huge chance the second issue I had with the book will be redeemed in the next installment and I highly look forward to it. In the grander scheme of things, my rating speaks for itself and these minor cons only slightly diminish my overall enjoyment of the book.

“The days without difficulty are the days you do not improve.”

This was my first experience with reading African-inspired epic fantasy and I want more. Evan Winter is another new fantasy voice to watch out for; his voice deserves to be heard and his book deserves to be read. If you’re still on the fence about this, let the flame of the dragons burn that dilemma to ash. The Rage of Dragons is a breathtaking fantasy debut that triggered tons of adrenaline rush in me. I immensely enjoyed reading it and upon completion, I’m seriously in pain over the fact that the sequel isn’t out yet. The second book is now on my priority list of anticipated books. I highly recommend The Rage of Dragons to anyone who loves reading a fast-paced revenge story with great characterizations for the main character. More importantly, if you love reading fantasy with well-written battle scenes, there’s a huge chance that this book is for you.

Official release date for the physical copies: July 18, 2019 (UK) and July 16, 2019 (US)