Of Sand and Snow

The Wings of War, Book 5

By: Bryce O'Connor

Narrated by: Mikael Naramore

Length: 20 hrs and 12 mins

Publisher's summary

With 50,000 freed slaves at their back, Raz i'Syul Arro and Syrah Brahnt leave the savannahs of Perce behind. Karesh Syl is no more. Karesh Nan burns in their wake. Beyond the border before them the South looms, ready and waiting, and together Raz and Syrah pray they are prepared for the great offense they must now undertake against the fringe cities.

All the while, however, another threat has threaded her way into the ranks of the Mahsaden, and is waiting only for the right time to pull her web of woven fire tight....

©2019 Bryce O’Connor (P)2020 Audible, Inc.

Amazing

Honestly I just got the shots of Raz, but to be honest the narrator and his flow with the words brings everything to life. Love it!

By the SUN and the MOON!!!!!

If you've read up to this point, then you know how well Bryce puts it down!!!! From conclusions to straight up Trifling disrespect, you will not be disappointed! I've screamed in happiness and I'm anger listening to this book! Mr Naramore DID THE DAMN THING!!!

Great, but not quite "I Loved it" like the others

It had plenty of awesome moments and some cool large scale battles, but dragged out some fights and reminded you a few too many times of past events affecting the main characters. Who hasnt gone through trauma in this series? Some things are easily predictable and others pleasent surprises. Overall I think it was a good continuation but sacrificed a tad of attachment toward the favored characters. The Narrator's performance though, as always, is spot on.

BEST BOOK YET

This book was the best one yet, Bryce O'Connor knows how to tell a story.

As always a great book

Bryce delivered yet another great book. This book has it all. The way he masterfully leads you down a path only to turn in a direction you did not anticipate keeps you riveted throughout.

Excellent!!

Excellent work by the writer, as well as a truly explanation performance by the narrator!

Great performance

Great performance and good writing, a bit on the large scale momentum of these things, Though its at the stage in the book where all those things are converging to a single point and the tendency for monotonous story telling is a common pitfall. Luckily in this book, it is far and few between. Though Troop movements are really hard to describe and imagine in both writing and reading it seems.

Phenomenal series!!!

Love everything about this series. From the writing to the reader. So excited for the next book.

Not as good as previous entries

While I still enjoyed this book, I found it to be a bit of a slog to get through. There was very little development of any of the characters, and it seemed like somewhere around 55%-65% of the runtime was dedicated to the final battle. This would be fine if it was particularly interesting, but unfortunately this one just wasn't. I think if the book was edited down to around 13-14 hours it would have been more enjoyable, Or just dedicate more of the runtime to character development and much less to a single battle.

**SPOILERS BELOW**

I was also sort of looking forward to this book being a resolution to the story as a whole, but really, very little was actually resolved. Sure the majority of the Mahseden is gone, but the two people already established as the real threat are still there. In fact, one of those two was built up even more in the last chapter, I assume with the intention of continuing the series with her as the main adversary. I'm not a fan of series that just let the antagonist slip away at the very end solely so another book can be written, so I worry a little about this ones purpose going forward.

ends short of completion...recycled villains and character arcs

the novel is well paced and well written up till the end.

when the author contrives to make lisura or whatever her name is the villain for the next book.. now however the shadows have been retcpnned as soulless slaves never mind that nazzeem was his own mam when he lead the shadows before....

now it is known that she steals souls and that's how shadows are made to not fear death... and also a contrived way to make the villain more powerful next time they face off.... all this is dropped on you in the last 20 mins of the book and doesn't mesh well at all.

this really should have been the final novel.