![]() Nuru and Akachi made for two fantastic and differing protagonists. Drawn into a dark and violent world of assassins, gangs, and street sorcerers, he battles the spreading influence of Mother Death in a desperate attempt to save Bastion. A temple-trained sorcerer, he is tasked with bringing peace to the troublesome outer ring. Mother Death, a banished god seeking to reclaim her place in Bastion’s patchwork pantheon, has found her way back into the city.Īkachi, born to the wealth and splendour of Bastion’s inner rings, is a priest of Cloud Serpent, Lord of the Hunt. When something contacts her from beyond the wall, she risks everything and leaps at the opportunity. Trapped in a rigid caste system, Nuru, a young street sorcerer, lives in the outer ring. Beyond the outermost wall lies endless desert haunted by the souls of all the world’s dead. Smoke and Stone, one of Fletcher’s latest novels, has everything I love - gods, grit, and damned good characters.Īfter a cataclysmic war of the gods, the last of humanity huddles in Bastion, a colossal ringed city. I’m glad I came back around to give him another try. ![]() But I gave the novel the most cursory of tries, and when the first chapter didn’t capture me, I drifted into other books in my TBR pile. The idea of the first series I heard of, Manifest Delusions - where the maddest among us have the great capacity for magic - blew me away with its novelty. ![]() Michael Fletcher has been on my radar since Beyond Redemption. ![]()
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