In general, there’s lots of drama keeping things moving along, especially towards the end where [spoilers] I assumed most the point-of-view characters were going to get killed because THAT’S WHAT I’D HAVE DONE… and then, slightly disappointingly, they weren’t [/spoilers]. I’m not going to cover the plot – or rather the plots – in this review, as you can read that elsewhere. She also bears the Salar a favoured son, Lasura, who must fight for dominance and his very life among his many half-brothers from various other wives of the Salar. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

There are many life lessons in Obsidian and my take on some of the most important are that, to break the cycle of violence, vengeance and tragedy, people need to see things differently and act differently. The vision of Baaku’s death had also come at that precise moment, when a space so large, so permanent in his heart had been seized and occupied by this man without his consent. Also, I absolutely adored that even though this story is set in a deeply patriarchal world, we still follow some incredibly strong female characters who are true forces to be reckoned with.These themes are explored through the characters and the personal and political wars they wage, the oaths they take, the betrayals they face, and the pride, devotion, retribution, anger, guilt and shame which drives them.

It's established pretty quickly that anything can and will happen, nobody is safe and the characters you begin to latch onto won't be spared. Who was she to decide that they were no longer her people to protect if they became Rashais, that eight thousand lives were worthless, the moment they stopped representing her ideals?

He realized then that even after all this time, he was always looking for something, always trying to survive to reach somewhere.

An award winning epic fantasy inspired by the nomadic cultures of Mongolia and the Middle East, the rich traditions of Asia and Africa, strung together by intense Thai flavors that will stay with you for life.

That feeling of being slightly lost yet also utterly fascinated and intrigued immediately hooked me into the story, and I was fully immersed the entire way through. That said, love, self-sacrifice, devotion, bravery, family, honour are also to be found within “Obsidian: Awakening”, and the book is not completely devoid of hope.

Meanwhile, their wayward son’s indecision on which land to fight for throws everything into chaos, and a mysterious mastermind lurks behind them all to make sure everyone dances to his tune.Thrown as a child into a prison of depravity and torture, none of the atrocities this man who rode with his troops to conquer the Vilarhiti, commands or commits with his own hands rival the things he saw, suffered, feared, endured.