As soon as I saw the incredibly striking & unique cover (art by Jeremy Wilson, design by Lauren Panepinto) I was excited! Of course I leapt at the opportunity to read Seven Blades in Black, the start of his new series, The Grave of Empires. But I just haven’t made the time to start either of those trilogies yet…the endless TBR struggle & all…
I’ve got the first two books of Sam Sykes’s Bring Down Heaven trilogy sitting on my shelf, along with the omnibus edition of his Aeon’s Gate trilogy (which is probably the most outrageously chunky book I’ve ever owned).
You may remember me blathering on recently about how lately, I seem to be reading a lot of Book Ones to new trilogies/series from authors who have quite a bit of previously published work. The Scar, a land torn between powerful empires, where rogue mages go to disappear, disgraced soldiers go to die and Sal went with a blade, a gun, and a list of seven names. But she has a will stronger than magic, and knows exactly where to go. She was left for dead.īetrayed by those she trusts most and her magic ripped from her, all Sal the Cacophony has left is her name, her story, and the weapon she used to carve both. With skillful worldbuilding, unexpected humor, and characters real enough to touch, this is easily Sykes’s best book to date.
In a world where magic steals pieces of its users’ souls, Sal has learned to give up everything, even love itself, to fulfill her quest, so telling a few lies to her captors about her sins seems almost easy. Raised as a mage, Sal survived the agony of having her magic ripped away and now lives only to kill the 33 wizards who betrayed her. But rather than providing a straightforward confession, Sal tells her captors about her journeys through the Scar, a wasteland devastated by two empires, with only her gun and her winged mount for companionship. While awaiting her execution, Sal is given one last chance to tell the truth about her past and the lives she has claimed. Sal the Cacophony has been arrested by the uncompromising revolutionary government. Sykes (the Bring Down Heaven trilogy) launches his Grave of Empires trilogy with this rollicking, moving fantasy epic of revenge and magic, and the price they demand of one battle-scarred gunslinger.
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