Words of Creation

Painting the Mists, Book 10

By: Patrick Laplante

Narrated by: Adam Verner

Cha Ming and Huxian are back at the bottom of the food chain. Emperors and immortals would kill for their secrets.

The Inkwell Plane is a magical place. Daoist arts and technology work hand in hand, and transcendents are on friendly terms with demigods and demons. But not all is well. As a new ascendant, there aren’t many people who are weaker than Cha Ming. He must fight to prove his worth and carve out a place for himself in this dog-eat-dog world. To succeed, he may need to share more secrets than he’s comfortable with.

Huxian and his friends find themselves surrounded by strange new customs and powerful demons. Why toe the line when they can start breaking rules the moment they land? It's too bad demonic society doesn’t take kindly to thieves and scoundrels. They’ll need to adapt if they ever hope to be reunited with Cha Ming.

One man. A pack of rowdy demons. A world that’s falling apart. It’s rotten at its core, and no god, demon, or immortal can save it.

©2020 Patrick Laplante (P)2021 Podium Audio

just keeps getting better

another fun installment in this series, however the nut punch at the end will hurt until the next one comes out.

Still great!

Worth buying as always! If you like the rest, get this one and let the journey continue!

Great series

If you’re here reading this you probably have already read all the books and can ignore this review since you know they are all fantastic. In the off chance you haven’t read all the books my only question is why not? If you like cultivation this is the series for you. The author is a clever writer and consistently over delivers on these books in an amazing way. He’s able to tie bits and pieces of the story back to each other extremely effectively, keeping the story/plot building in a way that makes you want to keep coming back for more and more. I really like the way he writes from multiple characters perspective which does nothing but add more and more to the plot. Each book is always the perfect length, for the credit you simply cannot go wrong.

The best book in the series yet

I don’t leave written reviews often, but this book was by far the best one in the series.

A fun story that moved along well

I’ve enjoyed this whole series quite a bit, although the end of this particular book had a surprising twist that I never expected.