Blood of the Gods

After reading the first book, I purposely never read the second book because I knew I would forget everything by the time the third one came out. Now that the time is here, I'm so glad that I finally get to read everything straight through.

Without getting into spoilers, after my initial read of the first book, I assumed the series would conclude at a particular point, but to my surprise that point came at the end of the second book, so I have a whole entire book beyond what I expected! And I don't feel like anything was missing getting to this point either.

Having read countless fantasy/sci-fi novels over the years, normally getting a really fleshed out “magic system” is a huge plus for myself and a lot of other readers. There are what, at least four distinct ones in the first two books already?? Leylines, kaas, animal spirits (let's lump nature spirits and shaman foresight spirits in here too, but you could easily separate those as well), and then whatever you want to call Dragon, Fox, Heron, Ox, etc. And again, each of those are really completely different from each other. It is crazy to me that any ONE of those systems could easily have been the basis for a series, yet we get all of them, and we get quite a bit of information about them too.

I can't wait to get started on the third book and see where this all ends up.

P.S. Arak'Jur is my boy.