Age of Ash: The Sunday Times bestseller - The Kithamar Trilogy Book 1

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I love fantasy books that are more confined, instead of a gigantic fantasy world, so this one was right of my alley.

There were quite a few times I just wanted to move onto the important story bits but the author was hooked on telling me how pretty the snow was. Dig deeper, and you will find a harrowing tale of loss and grief: loss of family, loss of love, loss of a lifestyle, loss of home. I liked it a lot, but I struggle to describe the plot and any events that I think are key action moments happen largely towards the end of the novel.

She lives with them and her husband in the UK and can often be found on a beach paddling in the North Sea or stomping through a forest with the sprogs and hounds. AGE OF ASH tells a story that seems to be adjacent to what is really going on, and because of that, seems to fall a little flat.

Other times I wondered if it was because I didn’t feel properly introduced to Alys’s backstory for a while. Our other main characters, Adomanka and Tregarro, are it’s foremost members and although I wouldn’t class either characters as the “villains'' in this story, (their motives are far more complex than that), their powers dabble in the use of dark magic, sacrifices and blood, which I found unnervingly creepy. While the reader doesn’t get much insight into the whole of Kithamar, the district of Longhill is masterfully brought to life. You just know he has the answers if you ask him a question about his world and answers in the plural because he understands history isn’t a single thing but a mess of things all tangled together that we try to make whole for the comfort of the present.I would like to thank Orbit for sending me a copy of Age of Ash to review, it has been a brilliant introduction to Abraham’s writing. But the more she discovers about him, the more she learns about herself, and the truths she finds are more dangerous than knives.