***The Sunday Times bestselling Great Silence series continues***
THE EMPIRE OF THE WOLF TEETERS ON THE BRINK
The true horror of the Great Silence has been revealed. As nation after nation succumbs to the mind-plague and Sova scrambles to enlist help from across the globe, Ambassador Renata Rainer has been given a simple task: save the world.
While she travels to the Principality of Casimir to enlist the help of the Empire’s oldest enemy, Lieutenant Peter Kleist returns to the haunted forests of the New East to search for ancient answers – and finally confront the terrible fate that awaits him. In their wake, a task force of engineers, soldiers, and arcane experts will try and unpick the final secrets of the Great Silence – on both sides of the mortal plane.
But time is running out. Count Lamprecht von Oldenburg has returned to the capital, armed with a terrible vision and enough madness to see it through. Those who stand in his way face a simple choice: join the revolution, or die.
As the world tips towards chaos, all paths converge on the Eye of the Sea, where the fabric of reality wears thin – and where the Empire of the Wolf must confront the most terrible enemy it has ever known.
Steel Gods is the second novel in the Great Silence trilogy from Sunday Times bestselling author Richard Swan – a dark flintlock fantasy filled with epic adventure, arcane mysteries and creeping dread
Praise for the series
‘Dazzling and immersive epic fantasy’ Publishers Weekly (starred review)
‘This is one wild, intricate ride: grim, grotesque, vivid, thrilling’ Kirkus (starred review)
‘An absolute treat . . . crammed with imagination, horror, epic scale, and characters I simply could not put down’ Grimdark Magazine
‘A truly remarkable page-turning, flintlock fantasy horror’ Fantasy Hive
The Great Silence
Grave Empire
Steel Gods
The Empire of the Wolf
The Justice of Kings
The Tyranny of Faith
The Trials of Empire
REVIEW
Time and time again, Richard Swan has proven his ability to take gunpowder and magic and transform them into an epic fantasy that combines epic horror and the arcane arts. Very reminiscent of Warhammer, the Old World, and 40k. Sometimes I wonder why Richard isn’t already writing for the 40k Universe. The world of Steel Gods is a book series that deserves an illustrated version from the Broken Binding. I’d love to watch a Netflix adaptation of this book series one day. It’s that good.
The truth is that Steel Gods will consume you at your soul as you read on. What happens when people lose their minds? What happens when people become mad and desperate? As shown in history, soldiers in WW1 lost their sense of sanity due to shell-shock. This is not an accurate example, but I want to give an idea of how terrible the world of Steel Gods can be. There is hope, don’t get me wrong. There is. But there’s also a lot of politics involved.
This is a dark, heavy world. Full of fewer heroics and more with what we as humans are forced to face our destinies with, our own monsters. Our own egos. Our own selfish desires and greed. it is a slow paced world, it is a world where things take their time. If you like this type of fantasy series, Steel Gods is for you.
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