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Blood Song

Anthony Ryan

Raven's Shadow, Book 1

About Blood Song

A soldier looks back on his life in the Sixth Order and the war that defined everything — told in retrospect, which gives the novel the weight of a history already written. For Game of Thrones readers who love the military realism and the sense that a larger political world is operating around the characters. Ryan writes combat and character with equal precision, and Vaelin Al Sorna is one of epic fantasy's most compelling reluctant heroes.

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