'A storytelling assurance rare for a debut Fans of Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson will find much to admire' Guardian AS DESTINY CALLS A JOURNEY BEGINSIt has been twenty years since the god-like Augurs were overthrown & killed Now those who once served them
- the Gifted
- are spared only because they have accepted the rebellion's Four Tenets vastly limiting their own powers As a young Gifted Davian suffers the consequences of a war lost before he was even born He & others like him are despised But when Davian discovers he wields the forbidden powers of the Augurs he sets in motion a chain of events that will change everything To the west a young man whose fate is intertwined with Davian's wakes up in the forest covered in blood & with no memory of who he is & in the far north an ancient enemy long thought defeated begins to stir The Licanius trilogy The Shadow of What Was Lost An Echo of Things to Come The Light of All That Falls (coming 2019)' Wonderful worldbuilding & terrific characters' Boingboingnet' Will appeal to anybody looking for a coming-of-age fantasy tale with likeable characters & strong worldbuilding' Fantasy Faction' Love the Wheel of Time? This is about to become your new favourite series' Barnes & Noble SF & Fantasy Blog