I can't believe all the 4 and 5 star ratings. What book did you people read? I think David is running out of ideas. This series has never been at the top of my list, but I've enjoyed reading it until now. This is the worst book of the series. It's more of the same thing over and over again. Nothing seems to really happen.I kinda liked where books 5 and 6 went with the story, but now it's just, blah. Which interestingly, is what I thought of the third book, the third chapter of the first story ar...

I feel like Farland has great ideas, but his execution is just not good enough. The first two Runelords books were too long, whereas the last few Runelords books have been too short. I had read(and also knew by finishing the last book) that Fallion would be captured in this book. I was afraid that we would get some extended torture scenes(ala Wizards First Rule), and I am delighted to say that was not the case. Fallion is captured and tortured for most of the book, but almost all of the book is

The Wyrmling Horde is the seventh book in the Runelords Series, a series which I started reading earlier this year and have enjoyed periodically throughout the year. One of the reasons I've enjoyed the series is that it has confronted the cost and morality of the magic system of the book head on. In earlier books, this dilemma has been a central theme and I've documented my interest in this theme in other reviews of the series.It is becoming increasingly obvious as the books have progressed that...

I think that for the most part The Wyrmling Horde takes everything I mentioned in Worldbinder and does a bit more of that. There are some really fascinating worldbuilding ideas being explored here, although I miss the smaller scope of just the Endowments and possibly the wizards of the early books. The characters are cool–and I do actually find the inversions of several of them fascinating–but we’re also missing a few faces that I really wish we would see more of. Plotwise… nothing much actually...

I think I intend to read at least 8 of these. Not sure if I need to read post wyrmling war. But I'm almost done with #7 and my last comments were on #3.A friend commented on that review that he stopped reading after Raj Aten was defeated. I felt there was too much said in the book to assume that it was the end. But I had a vision of Earth and Water against Air and Fire.I feel like book 5, was the end of being able to believe that though. It's in book 5 that Gaborn's son becomes the focus, and wh...

I thoroughly enjoyed this read. I'm a fan of fantasy and magic. This story offers both.

Apart from a few forays into the True World, a peek or two into Brightlords and the original sundering of all the alternate reality worlds that make up what could be a pretty awesome worldbuilding scenario, this book falls back into a pretty average fantasy read.Our interesting MC is sidelined and tortured while the rest of the cast do their best to power up using the old magic system to break him out of the Wyrmling labyrinth. The potential for great character building is mostly lost, although

A very disappointing read. I was really looking forward to this and it failed on so many levels. It was slow, filled with mindless descriptions and repetitive writing. The plot failed to move at even a snails pace and I feel that the story itself wasn't moved along at all. To me this should have been chopped down by 150 pages and been a section of a quality book instead the entirety of a pathetic book. Its quality that matters in writing Mr. Farland, Not quantity. I say this as a fan, and I hope...

So, this book is firmly in the category of "grimdark," but it's so well done, it's still a pleasure to read and makes me want to track down more books by this author. This is also well-done grimdark, where the awful things that happen both make sense in universe and would still make sense if real people faced similar but real dilemmas--this is not always the case in a lot of grimdark fantasy. There's just something so endlessly cool about the whole idea of the Runelords, where ordinary people ca...

Not as much character development as it seems there should have been. It moves the story along, but not much of great significance happens in this one.

In theory, each book should have a beginning, middle, and end. It's the beginning and end that readers enjoy the most. That is why I think many fans of the Runelord series dislike the latter books in the series; books 6 and 7 consist mostly of the boring middle part that we're just trying to get through to get to the end.Instead, things just keep getting worse and worse, and it's to the point now that things are so bad there is no frame of reference anymore. It is difficult to relate to the char...

The eighth book of well-done Runelords series, Wyrmling Horde just came out, and I was excited. Despite the fact that Tor set a word-count restriction on the author, resulting in a much smaller book starting with the previous Worldbinder (which resulted in a truncated feel to that ending), the series has been a good, solid read. So i delved in. A few chapters in, I was horrified. The recap from book seven was contrived and forced. Very disappointing was the questionable cast of characters asked

The writing is simply poetic. Warning--while the cover looks YA--it's very violent and graphic.

Check out my youtube channel where I review bookshttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg4e...The series is taking a darker tone. In this continuation of the second era the magic that was keeping everyone safe is now being turned against them. I am not sure how it is going to wrap up but I am excited to see what happens next. One thing I guess that would be important is letting people feel and experience their own pain but I guess I get why the character accepts the pain and suffering of others. I am...

The seventh installment of David Farland’s The Runelords series is the shortest, opening with one of the main antagonists, the wyrmling tormentor Cullossax, whom his lesser fear, striding through Rugassa, with the world having suddenly changed. Meanwhile, the humans of various warrior clans flee the fortress at Caer Luciare, and Rhianna practices her newfound flight. Moreover, in the wyrmling keep at Rugassa, Lord Despair uses Areth Sul Urstone’s awakening Earth Powers to “choose” certain wyrmli...

Merely decent when I was hoping for gripping. The story continues, but at times it feels to expansive and at other times too monotonous. By the end I was interested in seeing where it goes, only to find out the next novel picks up with a completely different story. I'm going to have to do some research, but I don't see where the ending of this series is, and that bothers me.

Well, I was hoping I liked this book more than the last, and I wasn't disappointed. While certainly not on the caliber of the first half of the series, this is a good book, and I liked it much more than Worldbinder. Farland seems much more sure of himself in this book, and seems to be developing characters that he's sticking with, instead of the situation as I felt in the last book, where he seemed to be uncommitted to either the world he had created or the one he was creating, he seems invested...

As I continue with this series I find that Farland has done a wonderful job at mixing things up. I enjoyed the way he allowed Fallion to become the world binder and has made this entirely new mix of people and characters. The world binding idea was so wonderful, and at the time unexpected, so I have been surprised nearly every time someone is reveled to have a shadow self or have been combined with their selves. It's such a crazy idea and Farland has done it so well. I feel like the worldbuildin...

There is a lot going on this book which is a little disjointed and hard to follow. Our previous main protagonist is relegated to the sidelines and we follow other characters in this book. The progress of the book isn’t fully satisfying but it is compelling and I want to know what happens next.

Bought all the books in this series in one massive Kindle book, only one left. Not a bad story so far