The great powers are stirring, and Holt and Ash are ready to return to the fight.

A summons from the Life Elder sets them on a perilous mission, leading to steaming jungles and blistering islands where ancient secrets will challenge everything they know of magic and dragons.

Talia, the Red Queen, is beset on all sides by pirate raiders and marauding mercenaries. Empress Skadi has abandoned her, battling uprisings in her own lands. As the noose tightens on Feorlen, Talia faces a difficult choice: let her people suffer or turn her powers against mortal foes?

Osric Agravain has found hope with his newly bonded black dragon, but some wounds run deeper than flesh and bone. Along the Fallow Frontier, he seeks the inner peace that has long eluded him.

And within the sanctum at Falcaer, Paragon Adaskar is struggling to unite the fracturing riders. If he …

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reviewed Defiant by Michael R. Miller (Songs of Chaos, #3)

Great

A fitting midpoint for the saga, and a shame that the full series isnt complete yet. Across the three books currently out, the writing is top notch compared to its peers. Honestly I only have praises to sing about Miller's writing here. This review would be a comfortable 4 or even 4.5 stars if the series was complete.

Characters are explored in-depth, every pov shift is well earned, and the prose is tight and full of substance. Unlike some other multi-book fantasy sagas, the space afforded by having multiple books isnt recklessly wasted on vivid descriptions of places that we only stay in for half a scene in a chapter, nor are there flash backs and history lessons that do nothing to drive the story forwards. When we get a new pov to view the story from, its always from a character who has earned the privilege of taking …

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