This entry of David Farland’s Runelords series opens with Shadoath seeing danger in the form of a tree at Castle Coorm, with the young prince Fallion, known as a torch-bearer among flameweavers, entering the fortress as well to find that the Courts of Tides were laid waste, and visiting places such as his old bedroom. The castle at Caer Luciare is a lonely mountainside refuge, and the dog Wanderlust, with a good pedigree, plays a sizeable role, being able to sense the antagonistic wyrmlings, and...

Check out my youtube channel where I review bookshttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg4e...I am still enjoying this series a lot. Now following the children of the earth king who have discovered a way to combine different realities and they are fighting to save the world only different yet the same as their own. There is not as much about the endowments as ways of magic and there more about different ways of gaining power and magic.

That was boringGen 1 was so much better

I wish I could tell the difference between when I have changed too much to appreciate an author’s writing and when the author has just diminished too much to be read any more.I recall really enjoying the first four books of this series and found them to be exciting and phenomenal works of fantasy with brilliant consequences to the magic system that seemed to be missing in other works.Then I read the precursor to this book and found it almost unbearably dull and poorly written.Being a glutton for...

Unfortunately, easily the weakest of the series so far, by far. I suppose not bad as a story in and of itself, but as a continuation of the Runelords series, it feels like Runelords only in the barest sense. It feels like he had nowhere else to go in the main story with the magic, and with escalating evil, and so had to come up with this. First, the Reavers were the greatest evil ever faced and had to be stopped. Then Shadoath was even worse and needed to be stopped by an even more powerful bein...

Given my relative inexperience with epic fantasy, I don't know if this series has followed a typical story arc or if it is as unique as it seems to me reading it. Unsatisfied with the world he originally created, David Farland bound two worlds (as the title might suggest) in this book introducing an entirely new geography, cast of characters, and fantastical creatures. That being said, this is obviously a continuation of the series and fits snugly into the narrative thus far. Over the course of

I'm not quite sure what to make of this one. The best I can say is that I enjoyed how the author was willing to destroy the original world by doing a kind of Final Fantasy 6 twist on it, meshing two worlds together, with the unenviable results of certain characters waking up with multiple alternate-reality memories, then trying to make a go at saving the last of humanity from there.Forcible attributes are an aspect, of course, as is the Earth King (minor, here), but what has really taken over is...

I rather enjoyed the first tetralogy of this series, and while this new generation of "heroes" was promising and Farland has definitely put some time into fleshing out his world, I was somewhat put off by the direction he took his story in. It felt to me like there was still plenty of story left in his original creation, but with this novel that world is now gone, replaced by a mashup of that one and a new one. There's still action, good characters, and neat ideas, but somehow I get left with le...

after not really liking book 5 of this series, book 6 returns my faith in the series. this book is dark but I finally started to bond with a couple of the characters introduced in book 5. the world and the setting change dramatically in this book which helped me with accepting some of the things that happened in book4. I actually would rate it a 4.5 if goodreads allowed half stars. this book sets up what is sure to be an interesting book 7

It turned incredibly epic in scope, and while I feared some of the initial charm of the series had worn off, I was pulled back into a new set of adventures that delivered quite a punch. Some really unforgettable characters.I am so ready for more!

I really struggled to get into this book. Some very weird turns and not as much of a story.

This new addition to the Runelord series seems like kind of a rehashing of the first part. The only difference now is that everything takes place on a "shadow world", but the same characters and ideas are used. I'm not a huge fan. On top of that, I feel like the books are fairly disconnected. Each book seems to introduce new monsters and new bad guys and I just don't get the feeling that there is a master plan. I would prefer there to be a clear cut distinction between the different parts of the...

That's...not what I expected. Farland continues his "The Runelords" series, this time introducing new villains and threats that will have ramifications for the rest of the series as we know it. Many people claim that this storyline comes out of left field, that Farland "Jumps the shark". I kind of agree...but it also kind of works.While "Sons of the Oak" introduced the audience to Fallion, Rhianna, Jaz, and the rest of the new cast, it served more as an intermission of the series, a way to intro...

I feel like this book was a huge step in a new direction, I can't emphasize huge enough, literal world breaking. I realized right from the start that Gaborn was special but the loss of Gaborn and the continuation of his lineage through Fallion and Jaz has been very fun to see and the worldbinding has really ramped the series to a new level. The heroes, the villains, the world, all of it has just been epic. I have been very happy with this series and I'm going to keep going until Farland wraps it...

Where Sons of the Oak could arguably considered a continuation of the first four books, what with references and plots revolving around the Earth King and his wife and a focus on Borenson, Myrrima, and their children, now in Worldbinder we’re really getting into the changes–and I’m not sure I’m okay with that.Full review:https://blog.jverkamp.com/2021/12/14/...

This series went a bit sideways on this one. Still pretty cool magic system but losing interest in characters so I probably won't continue it.

I had a VERY hard time getting into this book. I felt like there were too many new characters, and I didn't care about most of them until they all started to come together. The book didn't seem to move toward anything--I still couldn't tell you what the climax was. All I know is that the book ended in a complete mess, which means I can't give up on the series yet--I can't just leave the mess alone, completely unresolved.Binding imperfect worlds together to create one perfect world is an interest...

This was... painful. David Farland should have finished the series with Book 5, which would have been a fantastic way to end it. Instead, he's chosen to plod along and dilute his story even more, extending his reach now across worlds in this book. Since we're already on Runelords, Next Generation as it is, it just comes across as milking a really good premise that has obviously sold well.Yet we're not learning anything new about how the magical system works. There's no extension there: the magic...

This was not very interesting. It seemed so contrived (yes, I know it's fake, but it should still feel realistic given the assumptions). The characters would change personality based on the scene, which is irratating. This was a real let down after I enjoyed the first few books of this series.

Not my favorite in the Runelords series. While I like the contuting story of the boys, what makes this book hard for me to call a great book is the fact that there are a fair amount of agendas, and there appears to be several that were never answered. Granted, I am still in the middle of it at the time of this writing, but I will have to say that it is a hard read and if you want to finish it, do not put it down for more than a couple of days, or you will find yourself lost in the thick forest o...