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Spoilers - The Fires of Vengeance (The Burning Book 2) - by Evan Winter
Posted on 1/1/21 at 12:43 pm
Posted on 1/1/21 at 12:43 pm
I’m enjoying the complete lack of good guy and bad guy theme in this book and it’s really just a sort of character driven story about violence and war.
Tau is anything but a sympathetic good guy. He sawed Kana’s fathers head off in front of him and then threw it at him. He created in Kana what Odili created in him.
He’s selfish and driven by rage and has gotten multiple people needlessly killed with his short sited arrogance he never seems to learn from.
He’s an awesome character and the books are very well written, but he’s definitely not a good guy.
Kellan Okar might be the best character in either book.
Tau is anything but a sympathetic good guy. He sawed Kana’s fathers head off in front of him and then threw it at him. He created in Kana what Odili created in him.
He’s selfish and driven by rage and has gotten multiple people needlessly killed with his short sited arrogance he never seems to learn from.
He’s an awesome character and the books are very well written, but he’s definitely not a good guy.
Kellan Okar might be the best character in either book.
This post was edited on 1/3/21 at 7:07 am
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Posted on 1/26/21 at 11:15 am to Nguyener
Just finished this.
Very good read, but not as good as the first book, imo.
My thoughts:
Couldn't agree more about Tau and Kana. Tau was a moron. Remember, Tau was trying to spare Kana's life by proving there was no point for Kana's boat to come back to shore (where he would have been killed). Tau had also literally defended Kana's character just prior when he mentioned a few times that Kana was not like his father, the Warlord. Good job turning Kana into something worse than the Warlord, Tau. You arse!
The poisoned leg seemed like a worthless plot point. It is mentioned how much pain Tau is in quite a few times in the first half of the book, but by the second half it is largely forgotten for the most part. I assume it becomes a bigger issue in the next book(s).
Hadith - was 0 for 3 in important decisions after being named general
. Tau called him out after the first mistake (going after Kana's boats instead of going straight to the city that Kana was attacking), but the other two times were never mentioned:
Miss 1: As mentioned, going to Kana's boats first. Although this might have a payoff with how the book ended. We shall see...
Miss 2: The plan to attack the city by river and separating their army to do so. Sure it was the best plan to get inside the city, but he completely overlooked what would happen in a pre-emptive strike against them. That is exactly what happened and his master plan was ruined before it even started. He probably still has to make this decision, but at no point did he even imagine a pre-emptive strike against his army. Seems like the Grand General should have at least considered it an option.
Miss 3: Immediately after Tsiora's dragon was the last standing and the citys wall was destroyed, Hadith wanted to wait until morning to seige the city (to give both armies a chance to recover). Tsiora is the one who ordered Hadith to seige the city immediately which turned out to be the correct move as they were able to overtake the city and capture the the Queen's sister and gereral rather easily.
Not a complete miss, but he also wanted to keep Odili prisoner and, again, is overruled by Tsiora.
Tau's mom was a pain in the arse.
Book 3:
We have the war with the Kana, the war against the Cull, and you know the Demon King (for lack of a better term) is unresolved business. At some point the captured dragon will likely have to be released too, right? Seems like a lot to pack into one book if this is supposed to be a trilogy.
Possible foreshadowing? When Tau was talking to the captured dragon at the beginning of the book, the entranced dragon opened it's eyes and looked at Tau. It seemed as if the dragon understood everything Tau was saying and was acknowledging him; possibly relating to him (although no one, not even Tau, witnessed the dragon regard Tau). I wonder if there will now be some sort of connection between that dragon and Tau in a future book once it inevitably gets released or escapes. Especially now that Tau has dragon's blood (the poison) pumping through him, perhaps the dragon will sense that - maybe that's the payoff of the poisoned leg? Perhaps aid from the released dragon is how Tau manages to survive an inevitable fight with the Demon King...
Hopefully we dont have to wait five years for the next book to be released!
Very good read, but not as good as the first book, imo.
My thoughts:
Couldn't agree more about Tau and Kana. Tau was a moron. Remember, Tau was trying to spare Kana's life by proving there was no point for Kana's boat to come back to shore (where he would have been killed). Tau had also literally defended Kana's character just prior when he mentioned a few times that Kana was not like his father, the Warlord. Good job turning Kana into something worse than the Warlord, Tau. You arse!
The poisoned leg seemed like a worthless plot point. It is mentioned how much pain Tau is in quite a few times in the first half of the book, but by the second half it is largely forgotten for the most part. I assume it becomes a bigger issue in the next book(s).
Hadith - was 0 for 3 in important decisions after being named general
. Tau called him out after the first mistake (going after Kana's boats instead of going straight to the city that Kana was attacking), but the other two times were never mentioned: Miss 1: As mentioned, going to Kana's boats first. Although this might have a payoff with how the book ended. We shall see...
Miss 2: The plan to attack the city by river and separating their army to do so. Sure it was the best plan to get inside the city, but he completely overlooked what would happen in a pre-emptive strike against them. That is exactly what happened and his master plan was ruined before it even started. He probably still has to make this decision, but at no point did he even imagine a pre-emptive strike against his army. Seems like the Grand General should have at least considered it an option.
Miss 3: Immediately after Tsiora's dragon was the last standing and the citys wall was destroyed, Hadith wanted to wait until morning to seige the city (to give both armies a chance to recover). Tsiora is the one who ordered Hadith to seige the city immediately which turned out to be the correct move as they were able to overtake the city and capture the the Queen's sister and gereral rather easily.
Not a complete miss, but he also wanted to keep Odili prisoner and, again, is overruled by Tsiora.
Tau's mom was a pain in the arse.
Book 3:
We have the war with the Kana, the war against the Cull, and you know the Demon King (for lack of a better term) is unresolved business. At some point the captured dragon will likely have to be released too, right? Seems like a lot to pack into one book if this is supposed to be a trilogy.
Possible foreshadowing? When Tau was talking to the captured dragon at the beginning of the book, the entranced dragon opened it's eyes and looked at Tau. It seemed as if the dragon understood everything Tau was saying and was acknowledging him; possibly relating to him (although no one, not even Tau, witnessed the dragon regard Tau). I wonder if there will now be some sort of connection between that dragon and Tau in a future book once it inevitably gets released or escapes. Especially now that Tau has dragon's blood (the poison) pumping through him, perhaps the dragon will sense that - maybe that's the payoff of the poisoned leg? Perhaps aid from the released dragon is how Tau manages to survive an inevitable fight with the Demon King...
Hopefully we dont have to wait five years for the next book to be released!
Posted on 8/20/21 at 7:44 am to TTownTiger
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Seems like a lot to pack into one book if this is supposed to be a trilogy.
He definitely has a bunch of open plotlines going on, but pretty sure he has always planned for this to be a 4 book series.
Posted on 4/12/22 at 11:06 am to auyushu
What's up with these spam posts in seemingly only this thread?
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