WHEN THE GODS WAGE WAR, THE INNOCENT SUFFER.
THE REALMS FACE ANNIHILATION, and their greatest defender has gone missing.
When Gryph is torn from the Realms by the Light, an ancient secret society sworn to end the threat of the High God Aluran, he has one mission.
Get back to the Realms, at any cost.
The Light offer Gryph a quest. “Help us resurrect the Source and together we can free all the peoples of the Realms.”
But things are not what they seem and Gryph soon discovers that even in the Light, shadows fester.
Shadows that could doom the Realms to eternal darkness.
To save his sister, his friends, and the people of the Realms, Gryph must win the war of the gods.
Score: 438 pages, $5.99, Available on Kindle Unlimited
*Leading to an end*
The latest entry into the series is an interesting mix of a story reset and a continuation of things. The first half of the story feels a bit fresh since it returns to the real world for a bit and has a bit of a time jump, and once the main character (MC) does return to the Realms he’s got new powers and allies. However, after the 50% mark, things go back to normal as he reunites with his old friends. There’s a little fallout from the time lost on earth, but I was a little disappointed that more terrible things hadn’t happened while the MC was gone. It would have been interesting to see bigger setbacks. Instead, it almost feels like the time jump didn’t happen in some respects. The rest of the story was good. Still full of RPG action-adventure as the MC and his friends oppose Aluran and the new bad guys, the Light. The ending wasn’t satisfying for me though. Instead of any kind of resolution, it really just felt like a lead into the last book in the series. Lots of open plotlines left dangling.
Overall, a good read still. There were a few parts I really liked, like the new historic opening between the Gaul and Romans, or the new godhood powers. On the whole though, it seemed like the novel was meant to push the series to a conclusion in the next book.
Score: 7.4 out of 10
Ravaged Land: The Realms Book 7: (An Epic Progression Fantasy LitRPG Novel)