In the shadow of lightning by Brian McClellan

Series: Glass Immortals (#1)

576 pages, Paperback

Published: May 9, 2023 by Tor Trade

Genre: Fantasy, Own

It took some time to finish this one. It has a lot of story, characters, and maybe not the easiest book to pick one of the first of the year. I really wanted to follow one person and see where that took us. Well, isn't that always the case. Always that one that is more interesting.

So, politics. A country hungry for war. The thing that makes them special running out.

An estranged son returning home. A woman searching for a killer. A glassworker in the middle of war.

I am horrible at writing a review today....honestly that ending blew me away. Damn. Now you are talking! And there is not even a new book on the horizon!

Demir Grappo is an outcast―he fled a life of wealth and power, abandoning his responsibilities as a general, a governor, and a son. Now he will live out his days as a grifter, rootless, and alone. But when his mother is brutally murdered, Demir must return from exile to claim his seat at the head of the family and uncover the truth that got her the very power that keeps civilization turning, godglass, is running out.

Now, Demir must find allies, old friends and rivals alike, confront the powerful guild-families who are only interested in making the most of the scraps left at the table and uncover the invisible hand that threatens the Empire. A war is coming, a war unlike any other. And Demir and his ragtag group of outcasts are the only thing that stands in the way of the end of life as the world knows it.