My boy Caz, exiled from his home in what I will only call a desert wasteland, he journeys across the land hoping to find somewhere he can belong. But yeah, you got civil war, mages and witches, Gods and Goddesses, demons, sword fights, sieges.epic. As readers, we learn along with these characters about the outside world and the way the author writes, it truly paints a vivid image in your mind as your reading. In this we are introduced to Ash and Ember, siblings part of a slave race, wishing to be free, they leave the only home they've ever known. So of course humans doing what we do in times of war, burning, pillaging, just general chaos. North and South, brothers now at war wanting to unite their separate Kingdoms into one. To start though, the Twin Kingdoms is at war. The world, the characters, the story background, the landscape, the writing, damn, I could go on and on. Love today's age where authors can get their books out there in so many ways, so many ideas in the world and now we have platforms to get these stories in my hands.Īnyways, this book.This freaking book had me hooked right from the get go, reminded me of a bunch of other books I've read (Raksura - Martha Wells and Tide Lords - Jennifer Fallon to name a few) but this was nothing like anything I've read. Here I am expecting Caz to go around swinging a sword using demonic strength and magic powers to somehow find a place he can call home. I love a good exile story, especially when it involves a half-demon. I won't lie, I got this book only because the synopsis had Caz, a half-demon exiled from his home in it. Whether by coincidence or divine intervention, their paths meet and are tragically entangled as they try and find their destiny in the deep world. Attacked and outcast from the dwindling and suffering settlement he was raised in, he sets out across the stark wastes of the desert in the hope the he will find a place where he belongs.įorced to follow his older brother which he detests, PRINCE SERION finds himself on the perilous road to war, having to fight against his own uncle for his father, the Southern King, who wishes to claim the Twin Kingdoms through magic, religion and fire. The Southern King's oldest son sets out to create a new, better world for his father where magic and religion reigns, and any who resist are cleansed in the fire.ĪSH, a shargru, is considered a lowly creature, not much better then a dog, but despite great personal doubt, he sets out to lead his family to safety and escape the cruelty of the humans that enslave his race.ĬAZON, a half demon child finds himself no longer welcome in the only home he has ever known. In the Twin Kingdoms, the Southern King declares war against his twin brother in the North to claim back what he believes is his by birthright.

Deep World Fire by C.M. Meridian