Warbringer (Descendants of the Fall Book 1)

Wow! I was caught up in this story from the beginning. This is the first book of a new series by Aaron Hodges and what a start it is! It is an exciting page turner, with plenty of action, but I felt it was more character driven, which I enjoyed tremendously. And I have to tell you that there are some surprises that blew me away! This book is an epic beginning and I can't wait for book two! I love the main characters and I like the way the author tells the story through three of them. The emotion, new friendships, uncertainty, bravery even tragedy kept me glued to the pages. This book leads into the next book but I still felt good about how it ends. I highly recommend this book!

The first book in this series is full of interesting puzzles to keep you thinking and wanting to keep reading to see how the story develops. Adventure, fighting for survival and magic throughout. I enjoyed the completely different personalities of each character and how they interact with each other. The end of this book is compelling enough to make you want to read the next book in the series to see what happens next. The scenes are well detailed bringing you into the story. I recommend this book for most fantasy readers.

The world of the Warbringer is in many ways a dystopian world in survival mode.The Tangata may for the most part look human, but are not. Instead they are fierce enemies of the humans. They are supernaturally fast and strong and well on their way to wipe out the humans.And it is in the midst of these events that an old, disgruntled war veteran, a scared, wannabe soldier and a prideful archivist find themselves on an expedition to find "magic and magic articles"Warbringer is no normal fantasy as magic does seem rather lacking in everything that happens. Yet war there is in all its foul destructiveness that seems to suck the lives out of all that is involved.And then there are the major fantastical twists that raises the eyebrows for the sheer surprise of the nature thereof.Warbringer is a real pageturner that will keep the reader happily occupied despite some heart palpitations every now and again.Enjoy!

While this wasn't exactly a riveting tale, it definitely made me interested in the characters, and eager to see where they go from here. The few twists at the end were intriguing, and of course unexpected, but only made me more interested to see what happens now.

Extremely disappointed in how it ended. It started incredibly riveting at the end and then, it just flattened out. I think the author misseda great opportunity to have a great story with a smashing ending.

Brave resilient characters make this a must read .everything the author writes leave the reader demanding more .An excellent story

that seems like fantasy but has enough SF elements and a core mystery to make it interesting. the principle characters are credible enough

I can’t wait to find out what happens next. The characters and storyline are developing nicely and I just have to see what they get into next.

This is book one of a new series by the author, Descendants of the Fall, and has a number of interesting characters. One is Romaine, a battle weary older warrior, who is the last of his comrades from the fallen kingdom of Calafe, overrun by their enemies the Tangata. He had fought for ten hard years to stop the Tangata advance, but their army was defeated and he had to watch all his comrades die. On a scouting mission with the Flumeerens, the small scouting group come across a pair of Tangatas, and after a ferocious fight, some of their group are dead, the two Tangata scouts are dead, and the woman whose footsteps Romaine had noticed, has been rescued with only a broken arm. They travel back across the Illmoor River, the only obstacle in the Tangata advance, to the small outpost of Frogmore. The woman’s name is Cara and she doesn’t reveal much about herself, until near the end of the book and then it is quite a shock to all.Arriving just before them is a small regiment of new Perfugian recruits, and the one we learn most about is a young lad called Lukys, called a peasant by his fellow recruits from more powerful or noble families. He and the other recruits soon learn they have been sent as fodder for the fight against the Tangata. They have little to no training and are soon going to be facing action, they are ill prepared for! They are under the control of a famous General, but he is only concerned with keeping his own men safe. Lukys asks the only man who seems to care, the one that saved his life the first night from a Tangata, Romaine, to help train him so he will at least have a slight chance in the next fight. Cara also spends time with Romaine and Lukys on the outpost’s ramparts, watching his training, knowing no-one else there. She doesn’t like to be touched, but Lukys was the only one that she would allow to help with her broken arm, setting it straight and then bandaging it for her.Another main character is the Queen’s Archivist, a young woman called Erika, who wants to discover the secrets of the Gods, who deserted the Earth after the Fall, as it was called, hundreds of years before. She has reassured the Queen that she would be able to find an artifact, or some secrets that would help in the battle against the Tangata. Unfortunately, her last few expeditions have turned up nothing and this next one, is her last one! If she fails this time, she could well be thrown out of her position and be back in the struggle to survive, she was in as a child. Her quest has her with only two men accompanying her, but this one at least turns up something and she manages to get the Queen to allow her one more expedition, but she must come back with more, or her life will be taken if she fails! She ends up at Frogmore with a request for a regiment to accompany her, but General Curtis will not allow his well-trained soldiers to go and the untrained Perfugian recruits end up under her command. Luckily for them, Romaine offers to act as their guide, since the next location is in his home land. Cara also leaves the post and travels with them, without permission.The aim is to uncover objects to help turn the tide of the war against the Tangata. To gain some object with the power of the Gods, or some powerful magic of its own, to use in this war. But what happens to Lukys, Romaine, Erika, Cara and the rest of the young recruits, will be more than they could ever expect. The team has to split up when danger gets too close. The smaller team find the hidden location, but what they find underground is a lot stranger than they were expecting. Something else is down in the darkness, more evil and older than anything Erika or any of the others have ever experienced. There will be no salvation found in this location and their lives be forever changed. A huge battle is on the horizon and whether they will even make it back is for you to find out. An interesting look at a world in danger of being overrun by a race who are more powerful, faster and stronger than any of their own armies. Huge numbers of trained soldiers are need just to defeat a small number of the enemy. If matters don’t change in the balance of this war, everywhere will be overrun and life as they know it will be lost.A start of another great series by the author. It is setting up a story that is far more complex than a simple fantasy adventure, looking for the powers of the long missing Gods. The main characters are all so different and have backgrounds that have pushed them into their current positions in life. There are surprises to come and a few are biggies! An interesting mix of epic fights, magic and the hunt for ancient relics, a mindless and hard to defeat foe, with dark fantasy added in. I look forward to reading more of this series and would recommend it to all who like this author’s books, love a bit of fantasy mixed with magic, or just those who love a great read.

Some books just grab your attention and this book is one of those. I read it waiting for a Tesco slot that I never got, but because the book was so good, I am not too disappointed. I hope the next book comes out quickly because I actually really like a couple of the characters in the book and need to know what happens to them.

Almost a decent tale, unfortunately the characters were a little too thin to be really believable in the context they were presented to be. Price charged for this was far too much for a beginners first effort

Just waiting to see what happens next

The storyline moves along in stutters but still keeps you interested, there are a few twists and one or two turns, overall a good interesting read.