Dark Immolation - Christopher Husberg

There are rumours in Ashta - a new religion is rising, and Cinzia, one-time Cantic priestess, has escaped the Holy Crucible. Fleeing from Navone, Cinzia travels with Knot, a man of many parts, and Astrid, the child-like vampire. They are gathering followers, but the murderous Nazaniin are still on their trail. Meanwhile, Winter is losing her grip on sanity, grappling with immense powers beyond her understanding. Where she goes, chaos and death follow. 

My thoughts:

Sometimes I do not remember much from a previous book. I read too much ;) But I found it really easy to jump into this book and my memories were triggered. Aha, that is what happened.

Winter thinks everyone is dead and she is in a cell. Nooooo! WInter should not be a prisoner...but she did bring down an entire palace and killed the emperor. But she is a good one!

Knot is getting lost in his memories, oh I like him.

Astrid the child vamp is one freaky kid. I mean, dang!

Cinzia and Jane are starting up a new religion. THis is gonna end badly.

There are court intrigues. Assassinations. How to build your religion and keep followers, lol, not really but people are flocking and it was interesting how starved they were for something better. And I do hope this religion is better and that there is just not some demon hiding behind it. Because they are better than the rest of the idiots.

Demons are running free. Countries are waiting for a good fight and yes this continent will explode. Not yet, but soon. Civil war, religious war, some war of some kind is coming. And the characters are not in a good position, it does make me fear for their lives.

Conclusion
I enjoyed it, I do feel it was better than the first book (love when that happens) and I look forward to the next one

Cover
In RL it looks really cool

Paperback, 400 pages
Expected publication: June 20th 2017 by Titan Books (UK)
Chaos Queen #2
Fantasy
For review

Duskfall - Christopher Husberg

Stuck with arrows and close to death, a man is pulled from the icy waters of the Gulf of Nahl. Winter, a seemingly quiet young fisherman’s daughter, harbours a secret addiction that threatens to destroy her. A young priestess, Cinzia, must face a long journey home to protect her church from rebellion. A rebellion sparked by her sister. 

Three characters on different paths will be brought together by fate on one thrilling and perilous adventure. 

My thoughts:

I have trouble thinking of something clever so I will just jump right in;

We have 3 main POVS. The first one is Knot, a stranger found in the ocean and saved by fishermen. He has amnesia, and secrets that wants out, secrets that will kill. And as he does not know who is is, I did not know what to make of him. So I liked him, because he seemed nice ( but oh those secrets that we learn little by little.) I so need to know it all.

Then there is Winter. A young Tiellan woman who marries Knot. First, the Tiellans are those that gets persecuted in this world, and called Elfs (which here is a really bad word). They are not humans. Their numbers are dwindling, and the reality is that if you kill one, then no one will care. We gets bits of pieces from history, but I would love to know more how they ended up like this. Back to Winter, she wants more, and one thing I liked about her story is that she shows how "human" she is. She truly has flaws like everyone.

Then there is Cinzia. I can not say she was my fav, she was a priestess, and religion always sucks. Here they are all We rule, anyone else can suck it. But she is not bad, so I can not dislike her, she sees the flaws in her religion. Her story takes her to her hometown where Heretics are growing stronger.

And in the end all this stories will connect once more. Because something bigger is going on. We can not have good fantasy without a world falling apart, and it will do so with a bang.

And the end, well, yes it does end with a sort of cliffie. You know, all is kind of good for now, but the place is going to hell. So of course you want more then cos you have to know how it all will end.

Conclusion:
It was easy and fast to read. A good and interesting story, and characters I wanted more from. I can't wait to see what happens next



Cover
Hmmm, kind of cool

Paperback, 400 pages
Expected publication: June 21st 2016 by Titan Books
Chaos Queen #1
Fantasy
For review