One more book to go.

The first book of the series was very enjoyable and well written! It all went downhill from there. Each book continued to be harder to read with the last book being hard to finish it was so bad.

This book made me fall in love with reading again. I found myself lost for hours and hours in this rich story. I even dreamed of this vibrant world. This book will stay with me forever! Thank you for the emotional journey

Without a doubt my favorite series of books to ever exist.

I haven’t loved reading a book like this in a long time. Brilliantly written and structured. Such highs and lows, such an incredible ride I wish it never ended. It made me want to start the series over, which I will while I endure the wait for the next book in the series. Incredible.

Just as the title suggests it’s starting to get a bit silly. I love the characters and the writing is well done on the level of how it makes you feel as if you could be there. The descriptions used, the details, the dialogue all inspires emotion. But it all starts to become unraveled when you realize you are reading about these extremely experienced and literally hand crafted beings of battle coupled with the supposed greatest minds in the systems and yet they are constantly being duped by betrayal. It would be believable if said betrayal occurred due to an over reliance on honor but Piers let’s us know that honor is really a secondary value next to duty and furthering the goals of their house. So this continued blind spot of betrayal that is never learned from by the brightest minds of the society is glaring and serves as a huge distraction to the story. Piers has got to get away from using the same old tactics to bring drama to his story.

very 👍

It’s hard to put into words how I feel about this book, or this series as a whole. This book in particular, has cemented this series as one of my favorites of all time, if not my absolute favorite. It is not without flaw, however. I felt the beginning had a Deus ex Machina element to it that just didn’t match the flow of this tetralogy. But despite any shortcomings this story may face, the rest makes up for it. The characters are intelligently written. They are believable. The scope of the worlds visited are vast and awe-inspiring. The sheer brutality of combat in this super-advanced civilization is breathtaking. It makes me afraid of what humans are capable of doing to each other. The wanton destruction is not merely glanced over, this series forces the reader to acknowledge the similarities between this fictional combat and combat we face in the modern age. That’s how I look at it, at least. This series is well worth the read, but it is not for the lighthearted.

Two words: Bloodydamn. Epic.

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