Fraser Alister rated Pariah: 5 stars

Pariah by Anthony Ryan (The Covenant of Steel, Part I)
Alwyn is a thief and experienced brawler with few friends and an appetite for revenge. Few would call him handsome, …
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Alwyn is a thief and experienced brawler with few friends and an appetite for revenge. Few would call him handsome, …
In January 1986, fifteen-year-old boy-genius Nick Hayes discovers he’s dying. And it isn’t even the strangest thing to happen to …
An account of the decade-long conflict between humankind and hordes of the predatory undead is told from the perspective of …
IT HAPPENED FAST. THIRTY-TWO MINUTES FOR ONE WORLD TO DIE, ANOTHER TO BE BORN.
First, the unthinkable: a security breach …
"Once upon a time, in a land blighted by terror, there was a very clever boy. The people thought the …
Melanie is a very special girl. Dr. Caldwell calls her "our little genius."
Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell …
Chaos. Fury. Destruction.
The Great Change is upon us...
Some say that to change the world you must first burn …
A dark lord will rise. Such is the prophecy that dogs Ringil Eskiath—Gil, for short—a washed-up mercenary and onetime war …
Good in parts, but the constant crazy magic destiny stuff from character X popping out of nowhere and overriding crazy magic destiny stuff from character Y kind of cancelled out any kind engaging storyline.
The parts of the story that were more grounded in characters and places and not "random magic crap happening" where quite good though.
This serious started of well but fizzled out in a bunch of tedious eternal hero mystical magic hogwash.