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In the Shadow of Lightning: 1 (Glass Immortals)

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In fact, there comes a pivotal moment towards the end of the book where Idrian makes a personal sacrifice for Braileer. It's her job to reverse engineer and rebuild a mysterious device with the potential to revolutionize the world's magic system. She served as a perspective to flesh out the neat magic system, and was an outsider to the guild politics so we readers used her as an outsider's lens on events. I will say that I would have liked if Demir's mother- the assassinated matriarch- actually appeared in this story.

Instead, the main selling point is how it transforms ordinary characters into something beautiful and deadly. We also get to see Demir’s best friend and one of the fiercest warriors of this world “Baby” Montego through Demir’s POV for the majority of this book. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Demir pulled himself out of a spiral of suspicions and tried to focus on the calming hum of the skyglass in his ear.There were no characters I felt interested enough to read about like Taniel, Ka-poel, or Ben Stykes from his Powder Mage universe. IF YOU ARE IN THE TARGET AUDIENCE, OR THE GENRES/TROPES SOUND INTERESTING TO YOU, SHOULD YOU READ THIS? Truthfully, I don’t think I would’ve been quite so accepting of the wild ideas if the author hadn’t already established my trust in the Powder Mage trilogies.

Demir loitered until the last of the audience trickled out of the arena and the cudgelists themselves had long since been given cureglass and escorted away.I liked individual moments in character stories and the interpersonal relationships but the overall conflict felt cliché and rather short-sighted. As a student of Brandon Sanderson, this author is also known for writing similar concrete rules to how the world and magic work. It has intriguing magic, amazing world-building, charismatic characters and especially enjoy the surprising twist at the end and the awesome cliffhangers.

The author included some decent descriptions of the world; my favorite was the concept of The Forge. The supporting cast was also very compelling, including a couple of strong female leads who play important, memorable roles in the story.The setting reminded me of a fusion of a gunpowder empire with the social dynamics of an early Roman city state- namely of a system of patronage between powerful families with client businesses/families.

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