Rise of Empire

Riyria Revelations, Volume 2

By: Michael J. Sullivan

Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds

Length: 26 hrs and 27 mins

Publisher's summary

Best-selling author Michael J. Sullivan’s mesmerizing Riyria Revelations series has found a welcome home with fans of magic, clashing swords, and daring heroes. This second volume finds Royce and Hadrian on a quest to enlist the southern Nationalists to aid the ever-weakening kingdom of Melengar. Royce suspects an ancient wizard is manipulating them all, but to find the truth he’ll have to decipher Hadrian’s past—a past Hadrian wants to keep secret.

Rise of Empire contains Nyphron Rising and The Emerald Storm, books 3 and 4 of Riyria Revelations.

©2011 Michael J. Sullivan (P)2012 Recorded Books

Fantastic Series. I love the Rayira Series.

This has become one of my favorite series with only the Red Rising series being slightly ahead. This series is well written, deeply thought out, and the characters are so well defined that you will understand them as well as your own family. I will be greatly disappointed when I reach the end of the books. If you like fantasy you should love this series.

wow

great book 3rd time I have listen to the series. wish there was more books after this set.

Good story hobbled by the narrator.

Once again I found this fun, interesting story set in an engaging world with interesting characters and conflicts to be undone by the narrator.

One more to go

I've enjoyed the prequel's to the series and these two books so far and look forward to the last one

great fantasy storytelling

i love good storytelling and this fit the bill! Solid characters and intriguing story line.

awesome

read it!! excellent!! love the characters. outstanding need 8 more words to press submit. one

Rare instance of 2nd volume better than 1st

This trilogy was my first done into Riyria. I find myself looking the characters and world more and more. Also the wealth of CORRECT knowledge of this writer and their sharing of logic and insights on description of fighting and camping and weather is good, even educational. in volume two the knowledgeable incidental subject matter extends to sailing and climbing, and expand warrior mentality. I also like how this writer handles magic and various races.

Excellent!

Had my guts in a knot on more than one occasion. Very good listening.

Midshipman Wesley!

Just wonderful. This is the 6th Riyria book I've read (I started with the pre-quel Chronicles 1-4 against the authors advice, Im a rebel dottie) and they are addictive and fantastic. I really wish I could say more that I haven't already or come up with something inventive.

The only real praise other than pure adoration I can come up with is that this work in particular takes one of the skills that Mr Sullivan has, and turns it up to 11. And that is, side characters, "minor" characters. *There are no throw-away characters in any of his books*. I would like 3-book series for about... 18 of his characters now.

At one point, there is a sailing ship. For most writers, the ship arises as a literal vehicle only to provide a plot vehicle to get the characters from point a to b. you might get a name for a captain, and a random trait like "smokes a pipe", and thats about it. Well every crew member from cook's assistant to the captain had a story of how they got there, reasons to be on the ship, goals they wanted to achieve, opinions on other crew members, and they change as they see and react to their situation and events. they all are "alive", every member of the crew.

The book was bonkers good.

I need a Senior Midshipman Wesley t-shirt ASAP

Loved it.

Sometimes, sequels don't add up to the first of the series. In the case of Mr. Sullivan's "Riyria Revelations", this not so. Volume 2 is just as exciting as is the first volume. The characters are fully fleshed out by now and each has his or her own path in this volume culminating in a great ending. As with the first volume, I look forward to volume 3 and expect an equally exciting story by a great story teller.