Difference #1 The Fires of Vengeance is more morally complex, and morally interesting. Reading this book made me ask questions about what is morally acceptable, good, or bad. It didn't really give me answers to that, and that is what I prefer. I’m sorry to hear about your father’s passing... I can’t begin to imagine the grief; but I do hope that, as time goes on, your memories of him begin to bring more joy, than sorrow—from your dedication, he sounded like a great man.

I read The Rage of Dragons earlier this year and really enjoyed it and i was so excited for this sequence. Thanks for the publisher for providing me with an E-ARC, all opinions are mine though. The outline made me comfortable with the story I was trying to tell, it helped me see where I was likely to fall down in the telling of it, and it was a source of support and comfort when I was in the middle of a draft that didn’t seem like it was going as well as I wanted it to go. The fight sequences are a perfect mixture of dizzying and coherent. The supernatural horror is like a fever dream come to life, a PTSD nightmare ripping into our world to hunt for flesh. The rules of the magic and the lore are both mysterious and well established, easy to understand and thrilling and constantly surprising. The action scenes are like if you took the best fight choreographer on the planet and made him into a brilliant character writer. It's a perfect fusion of these two very different styles of storytelling that bring all the strengths of both and combine them. Tau and his friends’ continue their fight against the Nobles who have kept the Lessers and Drudges down, deeming them less than and unworthy of even basic human rights. There are new players vying for power and new circumstances to navigate. The stakes are heightened by the never ending hedeni threat, looming portents of the Cull, traitors multiplying among the Omehi, and a war coming that could cause the extinction of the Omehi race. If The Rage of Dragons was a fast paced thrill ride all the way, The Fires of Vengeance is a methodical, tension filled build up to a cliffhanger of a climax. The curse of reading this early is that I will now have even longer to wait for the next installment. I need to know what will happen! I’ve read and reviewed more than 400 fantasy books now, and my instincts scream that The Fires of Vengeance has efficaciously proven Evan Winter as a future big-name in the fantasy genre. This is, without a shadow of a doubt, an exceptional sequel that succeeded over its incredible predecessor. The characterizations are better, the stakes are higher, the scales of the battles are bigger, and the devastations inflicted are grimmer. The Fires of Vengeance is being released next month in November alongside other future best-selling books in the epic fantasy genre like Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson, The Burning God by Rebecca Kuang, Call of the Bone Ships by R.J. Barker, The Stone Knife by Anna Stephens, and several more. I’m confident in saying that you would be giving yourself a massive disservice if you decided to skip on this in favor of the others. Instead, here’s a better option, buy/borrow and read them all. Consider November as a celebratory month to treat yourself, and consume this absorbing story about war, resistance, camaraderie, and justice.

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Tau,” she said, and Goddess wept, the emotion she put into saying his name felt real and warm and kind. “You are enough.” The Fires of Vengeance begins immediately after the events in The Rage of Dragons, with yet another war on the horizon. Two queens, sisters, are at odds. Tau continues to fight oppression, racism & himself. by Daniel Roman 3 years ago The next chapter of The Burning, Evan Winter’s epic fantasy saga, is almost upon us.We speak with the author about the highly anticipated sequel, The Fires of Vengeance.

The Fires of Vengeance by Evan Winter proceeds directly on from the explosive ending of the first instalment, Rage of Dragons, a book which absolutely floored me with its brilliance. The lands of the Omehi were left scorched and broken, its people either burnt to death or lying in tormented agony. The dragons may have unleashed their wave of fiery destruction to both sides but through the ashes stood Tau, a man who could not be thwarted, a man who saw his people, his warriors, his beloved destroyed but did not turn away. The war between the Omehi and the Xiddeen is far from over, Queen Tsiora is far from defeated, and once again Tau‘s path for vengeance continues. Knowing that there is to be another two books in this series makes me so happy, I don’t think three would be sufficient. I am so excited to see where Winter goes with the following books and how everything we are teased with in the series so far will come into effect! This book does a brilliant job of expanding the world and people's of Uhmlaba and the demons of Isihogo. Evan Winter beautifully blends together the non-stop and near relentless action of RoD with a brilliant mix of characterization, world building and relationships here in Fires of Vengeance. So let's get into it. I know a lot of people enjoyed this one, but I cannot see any possible way that I could justifiably give this the same star rating as the previous book. Special thanks to my Patrons on Patreon for giving me extra support towards my passion for reading and reviewing!The second was that this book was where I really started to feel Tau's plot armor. You can't maim a character and then have it barely slow them down in a fight! But still, I didn't care that much, since he suffered in other ways. I took this approach because, though I’ve always read and loved fantasy, I hadn’t come across many books that existed in worlds that reflected the one in which I had existed for so long. I wanted to see the world I knew in a fantasy because there was so much beauty, energy, and life all around me at all times when I was growing up, and I couldn’t picture much that was more fantastical than that.

The worst part is, I think the story is ridiculously intriguing—what with all of the mysterious things happening behind the scenes—but this book was just too much for me. So much death, and sorrow, and loss, and practically no break. Did you not WANT the majority of people to read this more than once? Because that’s always my hope, whenever I buy one of these... that I’ll be able to go through it again, if it’s good. And this IS good... only far too bleak. For a time, one or two of the characters kept me above water—probably the simple knowledge that at least SOME goodness could survive within the whirlpool of ugliness—but when you stripped even THAT away... well, I’m a little surprised that I was able to finish, to be honest. I’ve been waiting to write the battle of the two queens for years now. Before I’d written the first word of this series, I’d already seen most of it in my head. THE FIRES OF VENGEANCE CONTINUES THE UNMISSABLE EPIC FANTASY SERIES THAT BEGAN WITH EVAN WINTER’S ACCLAIMED DEBUT THE RAGE OF DRAGONS. All in all, The Fires of Vengeance is a fast-paced adventure that serves well as a good sequel. Some parts felt a little cliché and like a fan-fiction with nonstop action, but it still contained that good storytelling that existed in the first book. This series is not just a trilogy to my pleasant surprise, with at least two more books on the way. It does a good job of setting up for more books to come especially with the surprising reveal at the end.

We are still following Tau's story and see nearly everything through his eyes, but other characters are starting to shine as well and we do see a bit of their POV's. This story is written with so much passion and love and just manages to keep me wanting to read more and never stop. The action is visceral and violent, the prose is engaging and straightforward and as the quote to start this review should tell you, it occasionally drops some serious knowledge. The most glaring grievance I had was an apparent inconsistency regarding a relatively serious injury Tau sustains during ones of these fights early on in the story. One moment he is laid out flat, completely unable to move due to the sheer agony... the next he is up and hobbling about.