![]() ![]() ![]() Despite this, Malice still manages to do a fairly decent job setting up the world-building and characters and made me very excited to continue. The first 60% of Malice is very slow as well, since a pretty good portion of this book is exposition or set up for the later books. The later books do things to help fix this issue, but the first book struggles with this a lot. I only had enough time to get seriously invested into one of the major story arcs, while the rest I only had a surface-level enjoyment of. I often found myself mistaking characters for others and forgetting characters entirely. The biggest problem that this book has is that there are too many character POV’s to manage in the first book. There are three primary POV characters with many others sprinkled throughout. Just one problem–not everybody believes in the prophecy, and many that do don’t know who to follow. This is for an upcoming god war that could potentially end the world if the forces of Asroth are victorious. ![]() There is a prophecy that will be two people chosen by the respective God and Devil analogues: Elyon, the good god with one called “the bright star” and a “Black Sun,” chosen by Asroth. Malice follows the story of several different characters in the Banished Lands. It suffers from being the author’s first book. The first book in the series, ‘Malice’, is quite easily the weakest book in the series. I will do my best to keep this spoiler-free since I assume no one reading this article has read these books. I will review all four books in the series and give my judgement on who I would recommend this series to. In this series Gwynne draws both from Celtic and Norse mythology as well as other fantasy like Game of Thrones and Lord of the Rings. The Faithful and The Fallen is a four book long epic fantasy series by author John Gwynne. ![]()
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