A Demon in Silver
Ratings3
Average rating2.3
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Ratings3
Average rating2.3
In a world where magic has disappeared, rival nations vie for power in a continent devastated by war. When a young farm girl, Livia, demonstrates magical powers for the first time in a century there are many across the land that will kill to obtain her power. The Duke of Gothelm's tallymen, the blood-soaked Qeltine Brotherhood, and cynical mercenary Josten Cade: all are searching for Livia and the power she wields. But Livia finds that guardians can come from the most unlikely places... and that the old gods are returning to a world they abandoned.
Series
3 primary booksWar of the Archons is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2018 with contributions by Richard S. Ford.
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For me, the first half was 5/5, but at 51% it all came crashing down: a character I felt very important for balancing the male MC was forcibly and heavy-handedly removed just to bring the female MC (already lame and annoying) next to the male one.
Furthermore, the book was already composed of several different POVs and jumped both backwards and forwards through time, which made it somewhat difficult to follow, but after half it introduced a completely new storyline with a different POV and different world-building, which was too much too late, while also turning the female MC simply into a McGuffin. After investing too much time in her for my taste anyway...
So overall a mediocre book and a series I will not keep reading.
On the other hand I loved the writing style, character building, dialogues, action scenes and mostly subtle evolutions of both people and events (only for the first half, actually) so I will look up other series of this author. I loved his tactical choices here (the small parts), I hated the strategic ones (their assembling together).
