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    Godblind: The Red Gods are Rising

    By Anna Stephens

    3.5/5

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    “A brilliantly brutal debut from an exciting new voice”—the first book in a grimdark epic fantasy trilogy (Michael R. Fletcher, author of Swarm and Steel).
     
    The Mireces worship the bloodthirsty Red Gods. Exiled from Rilpor a thousand years ago, and left to suffer a harsh life in the cold mountains, a new Mireces king now plots an invasion of Rilpor’s thriving cities and fertile earth.
     
    Dom Templeson is a Watcher, a civilian warrior guarding Rilpor’s border. He is also the most powerful seer in generations, plagued with visions and prophecies. His people are devoted followers of the god of light and life, but Dom harbors deep secrets, which threaten to be exposed when Rillirin, an escaped Mireces slave, stumbles broken and bleeding into his village.
     
    Meanwhile, more and more of Rilpor’s most powerful figures are turning to the dark rituals and bloody sacrifices of the Red Gods, including the prince, who plots to wrest the throne from his dying father in the heart of the kingdom. Can Rillirin, with her inside knowledge of the Red Gods and her shocking ties to the Mireces king, help Rilpor win the coming war?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateJul 11, 2017
    ISBN9781940456942
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    Godblind: The Red Gods are Rising
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    Anna Stephens

    ANNA STEPHENS is the author of the Godblind trilogy (Godblind, Darksoul, Bloodchild) and the Songs of the Drowned trilogy, which begins with The Stone Knife. All are available worldwide. Anna also writes for Black Library in their Age of Sigmar and Warhammer Horror worlds, and for Marvel through their tie-in publisher, Aconyte Books. As a black belt in Shotokan Karate, Anna’s no stranger to the feeling of being hit in the face, which is more help than you would expect when writing fight scenes.

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    • 2/5
      This book started off with a strong premise: the Red Gods of blood and pain have been banished, along with their followers, for nearly a thousand years, but are preparing to come crashing back with a vengeance. Treachery and torture ensue. Strong points: political intrigue, crossing and double-crossing, gore. Weaknesses: short chapters with constantly changing points of view that don’t allow enough time for character development and leave the reader feeling as if chunks of story have been left out. The baddies in particular are very two-dimensional, which is unfortunate for a book in which lawful evil features so prominently. I read the first half of the book eagerly to see how the plot would unfold but lost interest by the last quarter or so.
    • 3/5
      Godblind is the first book in the Godblind series and it is not for the faint of heart! What first grabbed my attention with this book was the cover, I thought it was quite interesting. The synopsis piqued my interest as well, I mean who wouldn’t be interested when promised rituals, sacrifices, and bloodthirsty gods?! Call me curious! Well, this book delivered much in the way of rituals, sacrifices, and sheer brutality! Seriously, if it can cause a trigger, it is in this book and it will be in full graphic bloody detail. The Red Gods are indeed blood thirsty and their sacrifices are the worse kind of torture, it was quite unsettling to read. There is much in the way of politics and god/goddess worship in this book, which would appeal to many readers. I am not usually a huge fan of stories with main conflicts surrounding a belief system but I found myself drawn into the machinations involved in this book. What really drew me in were the four main characters who played a role in realizing that there was indeed a threat looming and then taking steps to try and get the word out before it was too late to hold back an invasion. I mentioned four main characters but there were about ten different points of view in this book and that did take away from really developing a true connection with any one character. In addition to a huge cast, the chapters were very short. I cannot say that it was a huge turnoff but I did feel like they ended too soon in some cases. I kept waiting for that character’s story to continue and I felt like I pushed through the chapters in between at a rather fast clip in order to continue with certain characters. I would prefer a smaller cast with longer chapters that included more description. I also would prefer that next time there be less predictability of what was going to occur. There was plenty of brutality in this story because the Red Gods were those that required blood and sacrifice but a lot of the plot felt like it followed a grimdark formula and that the author used only violence to create the “dark” that we find in that genre. Despite my issues, which really were minor, I did enjoy Godblind and I am looking forward to the continuation of this story.
    • 5/5
      I enjoyed this series a lot. Very grim story but amazing characters and story