![]() ![]() This has elements of other genres, particularly sci-fi, that I really didn’t expect. Wight does a great job, for the first part of the book, at setting the scene, then something real big bag and ugly happens and we’re thrown into a … what? Wait … but in a very good way. This is a short snippet of Lindon’s journey it seems and, although I thought I knew the direction the story was going in, it certainly jumped over my expectations. This is the book I didn’t know I needed that certainly touches upon everything I like about the Asian-fantasy genre whatever medium they are presented in. It spoke to me especially like great chinese comics as in Feng Shen Ji and calls upon memories of DBZ. Now, this won’t be a long review because it’s a short book and there’s not too much for me to unpick other than how much I enjoyed it. What I found special about this book was that it manages to remind me of all of these whilst remaining entirely original. It’s the perfect storm of everything I love: anime, manga, Asian-inspired fantasy novels, tv shows … the list really does go on. Unsouled was a book that gripped me right from the start reader, I read this book voraciously in two sittings whilst on my honeymoon. When faced with a looming fate he cannot ignore, he must defy his family’s rules…and forge his own Path. ![]() ![]() Lindon is Unsouled, forbidden to learn the sacred arts of his clan. Sacred artists follow a thousand Paths to power, using their souls to control the forces of the natural world. ![]()
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