But by far the main complaint I have is the humans. I guess you could argue that Tolkien’s vision has given many a perspection of those race, but still the racial tone of both just felt wrong. However, even then and with the second book I just couldn’t get past a few issues for one the elves come across as petulant children, and the dwarves as real scumbags.
Ok I liked the first book, and you simply can’t complain about anything Tim Reynolds narrates. With time running out, Persephone leads the gifted young seer Suri, the Fhrey sorceress Arion, and a small band of misfits in a desperate search for aid - a quest that will take them into the darkest depths of Elan, where waits an ancient adversary as fearsome as it is deadly. The answer lies across the sea in a faraway land populated by a reclusive and dour race who feel nothing but disdain for both Fhrey and mankind.
And even if the clans can join forces, how will they defeat an enemy whose magical prowess renders them indistinguishable from gods? Raithe, the God Killer, may have started the rebellion by killing a Fhrey, but longstanding enmities dividing the Rhune make it all but impossible to unite against the common foe. Now the thrilling saga continues as the human uprising is threatened by powerful enemies from without - and bitter rivalries from within. Sullivan launched listeners on an epic journey of magic and adventure, heroism and betrayal, love and loss.
In Age of Myth, fantasy master Michael J. (Aug.The gods have been proven mortal, and new heroes will arise as the battle continues in the sequel to Age of Myth - from the author of the Riyria Revelations and Riyria Chronicles series. The unusual technological level and prevalence of thoughtful women as leading characters set this apart from other fantasies. Humans in these tales have only barely discovered bronze, and within these pages Roan invents both the wheel and the bow and Brin invents writing. In return, the dwarves ask that they defeat the demon that has occupied the dwarven ancestral city. Persephone leads her small group of women to bargain with the dwarves for weapons to face the Fhrey. Other Rhen women include Brin, the Keeper of Ways Suri, the only human to wield magic and Roan, a genius inventor. Persephone, new leader of the Rhen clan of humans, calls upon the other clan chieftains to meet and select a keening to lead all of the clans against the Fhrey. In retaliation for events in the first volume, the Fhrey send giants, lightning, and hail to destroy the human settlement of Dahl Rhen.
In Sullivan’s second Legends of the First Empire fantasy epic (after Age of Myth), the conflict between the human Rhune and the elven Fhrey threatens to involve the entirety of both races.
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