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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫This was very good & very violent. Similar in some ways to Jemisin‘s Broken Earth series, but not quite up to her level of mastery.
It features all Black characters - something certainly missing in mainstream fantasy - and the audiobook narrator does a great job creating the characters to fit their setting.
If you can stomach the violence, I highly recommend it.

Buy a friend a book challenge! Today I had a blast with @Roary47 . We went to Barnes & Noble‘s and challenge ourselves to find a book for the other person only using the knowledge we know about that person. No cheating by using a Goodreads list. I‘m super excited to add this book to my TBR list and shelf. Thanks for hanging with me today Shelly, you gave me reason to smile.

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Happy Easter!
I could not put this book down. I loved how Tau wants revenge and doesn‘t let anything get in his way. The magic system was great and I loved the small appearances of dragons. I want more and hope there is more political intrigue in the sequel. You all have to pick this book up!
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When they first reopened, my library disallowed hold suspensions. I wasn‘t too bothered because I was way down the list on most things and the checkout period‘s now 60 days.

Then they decided, hey, might as well allow suspensions after all, and everybody got theirs in before I noticed, and now I‘ve got an enormous stack of library books on top of all the stuff I want to read from La TBR.

Oh well.

The last of my #bookmail from last Friday‘s order. Looking forward to this one!

I still need 4 of the books I picked for my #ReadYourSign challenge, (The Rage of Dragons, Fool Moon, Crown of Coral and Pearl and The Kinder Poison) which will be here soon but here's my TBR stack right now for June! I had to switch Empire of Gold for Heart of Flames cause it wasn't going to be released in time for me to read it this month unfortunately

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The Rage of Dragons - Book review of a story that's more the rage of a warrior than the rage of dragons. What happens when a single man's plan for vengeance is caught up in a complicated web of political wars? Read my review of The Rage of Dragons, an adult fantasy novel by Evan Winter.

https://rrkreads.com/the-rage-of-dragons-adult-fantasy-fiction-book-review/

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My new 'walk to work' book.

I've wanted to start this book forever now & I (for some reason) kept pushing it back to read other things.

Enough is enough. I used an audible credit so that way I can still keep reading whatever I want at home & now I can enjoy this one in daily half hour chunks at the same time.

Win/Win. 🤘

Also... having a good audio book while traveling to work distracts me from that fact that I'm...well...traveling to work. 😅

I simply couldn't make Sykes' "Seven Blades in Black" my final fantasy book of 2019. That would be too disappointing. Originally self-published in 2017, Orbit published Winters' "Rage of Dragons" this year. Compared to both GoT & Gladiator, this is one of the best fantasy debut novels published in the past few years. Wholly original, while still paying homage to his influences, I was completely thrilled by this & can't wait to see what's in store.

I started this last night & am now 300 pages into it. One of the best fantasy debut novels I've read in awhile.

I‘ve heard this described as Game of Thrones meets Gladiator. Not sure if that‘s accurate, but overall, this is an African inspired revenge fantasy. It features a diverse cast, female mages called the Chosen, dragons, and our hero Tau, set on revenge after a devastating loss. I didn‘t like Tau much, but his motives and actions led the story. I‘ll say this wasn‘t for me, but I did finish and I can see the appeal for others. Love the cover though 😊

Did I enjoy this book? Well, I deprived myself off an hour of sleep each night before work, and I was up until 3 AM determined to finish it last night.

At first I really couldn't empathize with Tau, the main character, but as the book went on, it became harder and harder to do anything but. His development is painful and thorough, and he drives the plot forward, barreling into any desire to put the book down and go to sleep. 5/5. Awesome book.

On today‘s episode of “Let‘s Learn About Upcoming Books”: This is a book mail stack! These are the amazing books I have received in the past week or so that I will be reading for coverage consideration. What are you excited to read? 📚❤️📚

@EchoLogical I just woke up to this!!!!!!! I‘m so excited 😆 I was really looking forward to this one. Thank you so much! We had a delay for snow so I‘m planning on opening and posting pics of the rest once the kids get off to school. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
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