![]() ![]() While there are still some devotees to these seemingly callous gods, most people shun them, hoping they stay dead, and vanquished. ![]() Because of the havoc they wreaked on the land, called Vigrid, for the most part, the gods are reviled, rather than revered. These gods took the form of mammoth beasts, such as dragons and giant wolves. ![]() In this Norse-inspired world, a war has taken place between the gods, where all of them were either killed or imprisoned, and they have left the land that humans inhabited partially devastated in the wake of the conflict. The concept of “The Shadow of the Gods” is an intriguing one. Gwynne will have your “thought-cage” spinning with the dizzying brilliance of his latest novel. When a writer of this calibre shows that he still has another gear, that he can turn things up quite a notch, and exceed already lofty expectations, it is incredibly impressive. ![]() Somehow, he accomplished this, with the debut entry of his new “The Bloodsworn Trilogy”, called “The Shadow of the Gods”. He is already acknowledged in the fantasy world as one of it’s brightest stars, thanks to his famous ‘The Faithful and the Fallen” and “Of Blood and Bone” series. He already has plenty of accolades: David Gemmell Morningstar Award, BookNest Award, bestselling lists, and more. Let’s be clear, John Gwynne has nothing to prove. ![]()
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