An epic end to an epic series. We start again with a bit of a time jump, but only a few decades which is relatively short in this series. Hadrian needs to get the Empire back on side to fight the Cielcin threat for good but it’ll be a hard ask with most of the… Read more

Well that took a few turns that I wasn’t expecting. We’re six books in so I don’t really want to get into too many details on plot. There’s another big time jump here, two hundred years, and Hadrian is starting to feel old at this stage. He’s basically checked himself out, given up on the… Read more

A slower paced book but still a great read. For the first time between books there is no time jump and we start off exactly where we finished at the end of Kingdoms of Death. Hadrian and Valka are still recovering from what happened but they are inevitably drawn back into the Empire and the… Read more

That was one of the bleakest books I’ve ever read, still in shock. Hadrian and Valka have been in ‘exile’ for their own safety for almost a hundred years after the events at Berenike. However he is tasked by the Emperor himself to travel as an ambassador to the Lothrian Commonwealth, another human empire, to… Read more