"Looking for a refreshing take on the high medieval fantasy novel? Want to feel like your heart was stomped on? Look no further.
This is the first installation of an epic fantasy trilogy inspired by South Africa. It is a dark revenge story about magic, dragons, demons, and death. But beneath that, it is a story about the politics of war, class struggle, and survival."
Publisher Orbit
Publication Date 2019-07-16
Section Science Fiction / All Staff Suggestions / Fiction Suggestions
Format Hardcover
ISBN 9780316489768
Game of Thrones meets Gladiator in this 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.
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."
