The Black Coast
Books | Fiction / Fantasy / Epic
4.2
Mike Brooks
War Dragons. Fearsome Raiders. A Daemonic Warlord on the Rise.When the citizens of Black Keep see ships on the horizon, terror takes them because they know who is coming: for generations, the keep has been raided by the fearsome clanspeople of Tjakorsha. Saddling their war dragons, Black Keep's warriors rush to defend their home only to discover that the clanspeople have not come to pillage at all. Driven from their own land by a daemonic despot who prophesises the end of the world, the raiders come in search of a new home . . .Meanwhile the wider continent of Narida is lurching toward war. Black Keep is about to be caught in the crossfire – if only its new mismatched society can survive.The start of an unmissable fantasy series.
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Author
Mike Brooks
Pages
672
Publisher
Rebellion Publishing Ltd
Published Date
2021-03-16
ISBN
1786183358 9781786183354
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"The epic fantasy stuff with the draug and the god-king was honestly kind of boring but the more slice of life stuff about extremely different people learning to live together was great."
Sarah Brown
"This book is the beginning of an epic fantasy series, but the "epic" portions were my least favourite parts. I am not invested at all in the squabbles over which of the three God-King candidates is legitimate, or the weird demon politics across the sea. However, the book shines in more slice-of-life sections where people from two disparate cultures need to learn to live side by side if they want to survive.<br/><br/>I thought the different cultures were well written and felt realistic even though they were also clearly designed to have rough edges that would catch on one another. The homophobia from one of the POV characters was a little much for me personally though. It's challenged in the text but it's really violent and the narrative kind of excuses it which annoyed me.<br/><br/>I can see a few obvious plot setups for the sequel that made me groan (there is one subplot in particular that requires a major character to be really careless about something extremely important in a way that seems contrived and uncharacteristic that will really bug me if it's a major feature in the sequel) but overall it left me feeling glad I read it."
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