Rated above their 3.79 average
The main characters are well developed, and the story drives toward the climax. A page-turning read that I’m happy to recommend.
John C. · Minnesota
Book One · An epic fantasy
The Ash and the Seed
From darkness, light remains.
For readers of Lawhead’s Song of Albion and Overstreet’s Auralia Thread: a clean, faith-rooted epic with a Maker’s tongue and a Wingfeather heart, at adult length.
On the first morning of winter’s frost, a hunter returns to find his home in flames.
A girl raised among wandering tribes learns to hear the patterns beneath the world—the hum of creation in fire, water, stone, and wind. She learns the old tongue: a language that can heal or destroy depending on who speaks it—and why.
Something beyond the mountains commands where the old tongue only asks. The things it makes bleed red, breathe, and were never given souls. Feuds keep the tribes apart while the road east pulls harder. She must decide what her gift is for—and what it must never become.
Told across several winter nights by an Elder to seven children at the hearth—while outside the snares come back empty, and the hunters have stopped saying what they found.
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The Children of the Fallen
Book Two of The Breath and the Word
Twenty years after the seal was closed, something has begun to press on it again. Brágh feels it under the pines before anyone else will believe her, and a stranger who came out of the fog may know more than he says.
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The Breath and the Word
The language that made the world can heal it—or rewrite flesh into myth.
The darkness is not the end—it is only the space between one light and the next.
The Breath and the Word follows the old tongue—the language of creation—from a ruined glen into a wider war for what the world was meant to be.
Listeners learn to ask creation to agree—never to command it. Against them rise empty hungers and older powers that would rather be worshipped than serve. The road only deepens the question.
The story asks the same hard question: can the world be mended without crowning a new god?
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