Free the Darkness
2015 • 422 pages

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15

Raised and trained in seclusion at a secret fortress on the edge of the northern wilds of the Kingdom of Ashai, a young warrior called Rezkin is unexpectedly thrust into the outworld when a terrible battle destroys all that he knows. With no understanding of his life's purpose and armed with masterful weapons mysteriously bestowed upon him by a dead king, Rezkin must travel across Ashai to find the one man who may hold the clues to his very existence.Determined to adhere to his last orders, Rezkin extends his protection to an unlikely assortment of individuals he meets along the way, often leading to humorous and poignant incidents.As if pursuing an elite warrior across a kingdom, figuring out who he is and why everyone he knows is dead, and attempting to find these so-called friends and protect them is not enough, strange things are happening in the kingdom. New dangers begin to arise that threaten not only Rezkin and his friends, but possibly everyone in Ashai.

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King's Dark Tidings

King's Dark Tidings is a 7-book series with 6 primary works first released in 2015 with contributions by Kel Kade.


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Love the story, wish Frisha didn't exist.

June 17, 2022
June 5, 2022

That was a slog. Too simplistic for me and rather YA in some sense. I guess this is the reason fantasy that does well has characters that are flawed but overcome that flaw. Without that you have a fairy tale.

March 14, 2020

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