None of us could even consider reading anything else. Then finally when we’d all finished, our chat was wild with back and forth commentary, a catharsis that lasted two days. My fellow readers (Petrik/TS/Eon) and I all had multiple Whatsapp discussions going, repeatedly checking in on who was where in the book, so we could share our experiences of the major moments we’d just read. And it was impossible not to talk about it. So much happened that I’m awed by it even now. This is John Gwynne, after all, and nobody is safe. Cheering their departure if they deserved it, crying when they didn’t. I reread sections over and over, desperate to know if something really happened, if a character was truly, definitely gone. Throughout the epic final section my heart beat too hard and my hands were clenched round my kindle. It culminates in a battle so visually and emotionally impactful that I had to put the book down several times just to process what I’d seen and heard and felt. Readers and writers beware, a new standard has been set.Ī Time of Courage closes the story arc first begun in Malice, a tale of good and evil recounted by the many loved and hated voices of the Banished Lands.
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