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Pleasantly blown away at the creative dynamic of this book! I don't want to give anything away but the character complexity and back story of the characters are mind blowing. I felt caught in between a series and a historical lesson. Must read!

The book was good but I wish the author would have but location indicators so I knew where we were at times. The story is really good and I really enjoyed the characters. I was just lost at times but it didn’t take long to figure out what was going on. I would recommend this book. Thanks netgalley for the opportunity to read this book

this was a great start to a series, the characters were great and I enjoyed getting to know this world. I look forward to more in this series.

When Darkness Descends is a well penned Fantasy novel with a really clever story line. It outlines the story of a teenage boy Tom Anderson who, in a war infested world, seeks vengeance upon the killer of his Grandmother. With a friendly wild grell at his side & a plethora of other unlikely allies, Tom travels his path. But no matter how oblivious he is, someone is hellbent on making him embrace his destiny.

I admit, the basic plot of the book was really confusing at first. There were a lot of different characters and remembering the names of all of them was a very tedious task. However, as the story progresses, I found it easier to indulge myself and then, there came a point when I didn’t really wish to put the book down even for a minute. Further, the author provided an appendix at the end of the book which was really helpful.

The major theme of the book was the generic lust for political power but the way it has been threaded into a Fantasy setting is truly amusing. The author brings out a fresh perspective in a clichéd story line & that is worth praising.

The author narrated different incidences happening at different places simultaneously. However, he did so with such prowess that it wasn’t even the slightest bit confusing. The world building was commendable. The author painted the scenes with his words. The way he threads the entire story is really amazing.

The story had a very strong narration and the characters kept building and developing throughout the course of the book. They weren’t stagnant and that is the best part about the book. Further, the characters were vivid and seemed real. The author brings to light, some really heartwarming friendships.

I would recommend this book to all the people who wish to read something fresh and engaging.

When Darkness Descends is an upcoming fantasy book that captured my attention from the first page until the last. It was written with such tenacity that I am left in awe until the very last moment. I had a liking towards Tom, the main character, because I found myself in him at some point. Seeing him grow throughout the story had me rooting for him.

I am excited for everyone else to be able to read this when it comes out.

I really enjoyed reading this book because I liked the well thought out story and the good described characters and surroundings very much. The writing style is pleasant to read and it's easy to find into the story. An interesting story from the start until the last page.

In this book, toward the beginning we see an imperial prince taking on a conflict with the grells to get his city back...though it doesn't provide some insight into the entire story you can figure that the fight is about substantially more then simply the city itself, what was it that roused the sovereign to slaughter such a significant number of people...protectors of the life calander?

These individuals, the realm adores an antiquated god Volardie whom they accept to be the maker of human life.

There are individuals who don't have faith in him and in this manner got executed and it is a fabled tale that their skull decorates the throne of Volardie.

After two or three sections enters ruler alaric, a voracious, narrow minded and overambitious individual who needs to locate the shrouded city in the entrails of Malang Gunya, the city they had quite recently won. This lord albeit canny and savvy, ends up being a force hungry control crack with seveare trust issues.

The sovereign, in the wake of being controlled and determined what he ought to accomplish for his entire life at last arrives at a limit and murders his own dad or was it simply greed that took control?

In the subsequent course of events, we see Tommy a little child who saw his grandma killed by somebody before his own eyes...now what will Tommy do?

At 16 years of age, Tommy is guilt ridden that he was unable to do anything for his grandma, whatever he is seeing is it mind flight or reality?

In the event that we talk about the composing style, the language is somewhat complex yet nothing that would not benefit from outside assistance by a little word reference.

The story is devided in two courses of events, one antiquated and the other present day. Each character has a couple of one of a kind layers to themselves which makes it very fascinating and complex to understand them.

The author has attempted to delineate concealed shades of connections simply like ruler Alaric and his child had with numerous hues and layers.

The composing is smooth, no mistakes, no syntactic blunders, and no genuine obscenities either.

It was a fine persuit, a book to which you can return on occasion.

Will sovereign Oldaric locate the concealed city?

What's the life calender?

Who and what precisely is Volardie?

How the two courses of events cross one another?

By what method will Tommy and olderic associate?

Who is the killer?

Will Tommy have the option to vindicate his grandma?

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