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The Rage of Dragons (2019)

by Evan Winter

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Series: The Burning (1)

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Fantasy. Fiction. African American Fiction. HTML:Game of Thrones meets Gladiator in this blockbuster debut epic fantasy about a world caught in an eternal war, and the young man who will become his people's only hope for survival.
Winner of the Reddit/Fantasy Award for Best Debut Fantasy Novel
The Omehi people have been fighting an unwinnable war for almost two hundred years. The lucky ones are born gifted. One in every two thousand women has the power to call down dragons. One in every hundred men is able to magically transform himself into a bigger, stronger, faster killing machine.
Everyone else is fodder, destined to fight and die in the endless war.
Young, gift-less Tau knows all this, but he has a plan of escape. He's going to get himself injured, get out early, and settle down to marriage, children, and land. Only, he doesn't get the chance.
Those closest to him are brutally murdered, and his grief swiftly turns to anger. Fixated on revenge, Tau dedicates himself to an unthinkable path. He'll become the greatest swordsman to ever live, a man willing to die a hundred thousand times for the chance to kill the three who betrayed him.
The Rage of Dragons launches a stunning and powerful debut epic fantasy series that readers are already calling "the best fantasy book in years."
The BurningThe Rage of Dragons.
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in una società basata sull'ingiustizia delle caste il giovane Inferiore Tau diventa un guerriero assurdamente imbattibile per vendicarsi delle ingiustizie

tipico Heroic fantasy ed essendo tipico non delude anche se i personaggi più che cesellati sono tagliati con l'accetta ;)
il ritmo, invece, è perfetto, perfetto, perfetto ( )
  LLonaVahine | May 22, 2024 |
It's been a some time since I have been thinking about a book long after putting it down. This is one of those books. The story follows a somewhat familiar trope of a young man dedicating everything for revenge, and like all revenges loosing and maybe finding himself in the process. ( )
  avinashav | Feb 13, 2024 |
Fantastic new (to me) series. Easy read, great on the depth of works created and read it end to end quickly.

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  jdesjardins | Oct 9, 2023 |
What a phenomenal read! This book had me from page one, and kept me in it's grip to the last punctuation mark. I love the deep dive into the African folklore(esque) setting and the commitment to place and people names that will be difficult for a lot of readers.

The characters are incredible in this one. I love (and hate) them all with passion, which is everything I want from a book. Depth. Depth. And more depth. The world-building was vivid, but a little light for my tastes... I want to see more of the world and its people and I definitely want more of what was left behind!

Gruesome, but not in a shock-factor way. The despair was believable and important for character-building, which I loved.

Definitely give it a read! I'm plowing on to the second book, even though I know I'll have to wait at least a year for the third. ( )
  BreePye | Oct 6, 2023 |
After 100 pages, I’m not enjoying it at all. An opening battle is extremely odd for a book, since I know nothing about the characters yet. I realize this is in the past, so I think OK, let’s build some characters and the world now. Another battle, and I once again have no reason to be concerned about anyone.

It's hard to keep up with the characters' names. The class system remains complicated and unexplained. There's no attempt to explain the world or characters, yet it's popular. The smallest complaint that surprises me is that dragons appear very little in the story, despite the title.

Pacing is also an issue in The Rage of Dragons. A major event occurs too late in the story. They discuss other events I consider important in a couple of sentences, while repetitive training sessions consume most of the time. Having a dialogue about why training is critical on a battlefield about halfway into the story is ridiculous. It suggests the author was just writing for the sake of writing, without considering what might benefit his characters.

The world building isn’t the best, either. Winter’s portrayal of the world doesn’t work for me. Instead of info-dumping, he sprinkles information along the way without linking it to the thoughts of his narrator. As there are no emotions or events in the story that stick in my mind, I cannot remember it.

The Rage of Dragons is definitely not on ( )
  onlyfiction | Jul 18, 2023 |
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Ortiz, KarlaCover artistsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Stankovic, StefanCover designersecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed

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To my father for showing me how to work hard;
To my mother for her daily lessons in infinite love;
To my wife for being a better partner than any man deserves;
To my son, this story is for you.
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Queen Taifa stood at the bow of Targon, her beached warship, and looked out at the massacre on the sands.
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Fantasy. Fiction. African American Fiction. HTML:Game of Thrones meets Gladiator in this blockbuster debut epic fantasy about a world caught in an eternal war, and the young man who will become his people's only hope for survival.
Winner of the Reddit/Fantasy Award for Best Debut Fantasy Novel
The Omehi people have been fighting an unwinnable war for almost two hundred years. The lucky ones are born gifted. One in every two thousand women has the power to call down dragons. One in every hundred men is able to magically transform himself into a bigger, stronger, faster killing machine.
Everyone else is fodder, destined to fight and die in the endless war.
Young, gift-less Tau knows all this, but he has a plan of escape. He's going to get himself injured, get out early, and settle down to marriage, children, and land. Only, he doesn't get the chance.
Those closest to him are brutally murdered, and his grief swiftly turns to anger. Fixated on revenge, Tau dedicates himself to an unthinkable path. He'll become the greatest swordsman to ever live, a man willing to die a hundred thousand times for the chance to kill the three who betrayed him.
The Rage of Dragons launches a stunning and powerful debut epic fantasy series that readers are already calling "the best fantasy book in years."
The BurningThe Rage of Dragons.

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