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Ebook About Winner of the 2018 IRDA for fantasy / 2018 Reader's Favorite Gold Medalist#1 Best Seller in Canadian Dark Fantasy99% liked it (Goodreads)A deformed genius plots vengeance while struggling to survive. A wastrel prince comes of age, finding a power he never imagined. Two worlds will collide. Only one can be king.★★★★★ "This dark fantasy epic will be held up against George R.R. Martin's masterwork, A Song of Ice and Fire. Read this book now so you can act pompous around your friends when HBO turns it into a television series." - Goodreads★★★★★ "Kings of Paradise presents a brutal world of complex yet simple politics, reminiscent of Game of Thrones. An intriguing low-magic world packed with interesting cultures to be further delved. Nell shows considerable skill in displaying his world distinctly through the eyes of his different characters." - Fantasybookreview.co.uk-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Ruka, called a demon at birth, is a genius. Born malformed and ugly into the snow-covered wasteland of the Ascom, he was spared from death by his mother's love. Now he is an outcast, consumed with hate for those who've wronged him. But to take his vengeance, he must first survive.Across a vast sea in the white-sand island paradise of Sri Kon, Kale is fourth and youngest son of the Sorcerer King. At sixteen, Kale is a disappointment. As the first prince ever forced to serve with low-born marines, Kale must prove himself and become a man, or else lose all chance of a worthy future, and any hope to win the love of his life.Though they do not know it, both boys are on the cusp of discovery. Their worlds and lives are destined for greatness, or ruin. But in a changing world where ash meets paradise, only one man can be king...-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The first installment of an epic, low- fantasy trilogy. Kings of Paradise is a dark, bloody, coming-of-age story shaped by culture, politics, and magic.★★★★★ "The novel’s brilliant world works on so many levels; it has a rich political landscape, moral complexity, and immense environmental challenges, all told in beautiful, thoughtful prose." - Indiereader★★★★★ "A must for lovers of fantasy, especially those who enjoy losing themselves in a epic tale." - Reader's Favorite★★★★★ "The world that Mr. Nell has created is pretty incredible. But the thing that really made me love this story was the characters he filled that world with." - Goodreads ★★★★★ "If Kale changes, Ruka grows and festers like a storm. Without a doubt, the darker of the two characters, I feel Richard Nell has created a compelling and classic character here." GoodreadsBook Kings of Paradise (Ash and Sand Book 1) Review :
I recently learned that Richard Nell will be submitting Kings of Paradise, the first book in the Ash and Sand trilogy, into next year’s SPFBO (Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off) competition. In my mind, there’s no question of whether it will be a finalist or not. In fact, I will be shocked if it doesn’t outright win the whole contest.This book is that good.Clocking in at over 200,000 words, Kings of Paradise is a methodically paced and richly detailed story that primarily focuses on two teenage boys coming of age in vastly different circumstances in distant areas of the world: Ruka is a genius with eidetic memory; he remembers every detail of every book he’s ever read, details of every conversation he’s had, and learns new information at a phenomenal rate. He even recalls experiencing his own birth. However, he was born with a malformed face, and the surrounding communities label him as an outcast, a demon child. He lives in the frozen woods of the South with his mother Beyla, an influential yet shunned child of the gods, who loves Ruka unconditionally. Beyla raises and reveres Ruka, teaching him how to survive among society’s fringes: living off the land while having minimal interactions with surrounding clans. Beyla believes that Ruka’s genius and deformity marks him as a child of destiny, though it is unclear which path Ruka is destined to pursue.The narrative shifts from this frozen land of ash to a much warmer climate in the North, a land of sand and sun and prosperous islanders who live and trade in a time of peace. Kale is the fourth son of the king of Pyu, an island empire with a strong navy and delicate political ties to an ever increasing empire to the West. Kale’s older brothers are loyal servants to the king and court, and are motivated to fulfill their princely duties to secure and strengthen their father’s empire. But Kale views his princedom as a burden; he has a troubled relationship with his father due to his immaturity and rebellious nature, so he is placed in Navy boot camp where we first join Kale on his journey.It isn’t immediately apparent where these storylines will go, and this holds true for the majority of the novel. In other stories I might take issue with this narrative choice, but in Kings of Paradise it is a welcome advantage. Nell is a talented writer of beautiful, elegant prose, and a knack for deep characterization that brings this cast to life. We spend a lot of time inside the characters’ heads, and I was surprised at how quickly and how deeply I’ve come to care about their fates. As the cast begins to expand and we start rotating through new points-of-view, Nell wisely dedicates ample pages to allow for each of the new characters to breathe and connect with the reader. Every time I spent a few chapters following one character, I was disappointed when having to switch POVs, but when it was time to switch back, I did not want to leave the current story. The characters are strong-willed, sympathetic, and surprising. There are many bleak moments scattered throughout the novel, but small victories along the way had me cheering, fearful, or shocked.World-building is another high point of this novel. The settings are detailed and rich, and often reflect the mood of its characters. The political landscapes, environmental hazards, village hierarchies, familial values, religious sects, morally questionable law-keepers, and military forces all play varying roles in the story, with many having unique takes of their effect on surrounding societies. Some naturally play bigger roles than others, but the world feels like it is a living, breathing entity that continues on whether the characters live or die, instead of hinging on the fate and decisions of our characters.But that might be changing in the novels ahead. The final 15% of the book accelerates the storylines at a blistering pace, and the stakes are raised surprisingly high given the more methodical pace of the earlier sections of the book. It was a bit jarring in comparison, but this minor quibble might be attributed to the fact that I didn’t want the story to end so soon.I realize that I have spent most of this review talking about the characters and setting, so I want to make clear that this book has plenty of action, and much of it is grim. The violence is sudden and visceral. There are graphic and detailed sex scenes. There’s even a scene that involves cannibalism and children, and, oh yes, that’s on page 1. There’s even a bit of magic, and though it doesn’t show up until the end of the story, it feels earned – a natural progression that opens exciting possibilities in the books ahead.Kings of Paradise is a brilliant book, and I expect it catch fire in the fantasy community as word-of-mouth spreads. It is a self-published novel, though I think that is a temporary label – other than very few grammatical or spelling gaffes, this book feels more polished and professional than many, or most, of the traditionally published fantasy books I’ve read over the past several years. This is a diamond of a novel, and one that I can recommend to any fan of speculative fiction. Read this book, buy copies to gift to your family and friends. I have no doubt that this will be a fixture in the annals of truly great fantasy literature for years to come.5/5 stars Plot:This book has a rather complicated plot, with each of the characters sort of doing their own thing at the beginning.Ruka is the first character you meet, and you see him as an adult who’s murdered a young child and he’s frying up his limbs on a skillet. After that, you flash back to when he was a kid and watch him grow up into the person he became. Ruka is “Noss Born”, which means he’s been touched by the Mountain God aka The God of Death, Chaos, and Suffering. He starts off as a nice enough kid, but he and his mother keep getting beaten down over and over again. Over the course of the years you watch him turn into a monster and it nicely parallels another character, Kale.Kale is a prince, he’s the son of the King of Sri Kon, an island nation in the south. He’s sort of a rebellious kid, and as one of the youngest sons he’s considered ‘expendable’, so he’s been put into the navy to train to be a marine. You get to see a whole different culture through his POV, kings and nobles of a totally different land. Kale’s POV has the opposite arc from Ruka’s, he learns to be more disciplined, more responsible and grows to be a better and better person.Dala grew up on a farm rather poor, and one year the harvest completely failed and would leave her family to starve. It was then her father decided to tie the youngest children up, and dump them in the wilderness to die. She was rescued by a band of misfits she considered to be more of a family than the one she was born into. Unfortunately, she loses them to and moves on to be a Priestess of Galda. She has a fascinating plotline where she gathers up the lowest of the low in the city, those people call “Nightmen” or “Unchosen”, they haven’t been picked for marriage and live in squalor mostly coming out at night. She’s riled them up into a rebellion, they call themselves the Nameless and are fighting back their oppressors, murdering them in the night.Final Score: 9/10---------------------------------------------Characters:Ruka was interesting to me from the start, not only because the opening scene was cannibalism, but right away something was very different about him. His story is one of pain and brutality and watching him go from a decent kid to someone who eats kids was very interesting. Even when he’s a monster he’s interesting when he was eating the kid, he was thinking to himself “did your mother love you?”, and it just hit me in all the right ways.Dala is a very lonely POV, she misses her misfit band of brothers and is always on the outside of things. She doesn’t have many friends in her sisterhood and is having a hard time maintaining a high enough level to keep her place in the Order. She can be bold and charismatic, winning the Nightmen over to her side wasn’t easy, but she managed to be convincing enough to lift the spirits and morale of a defeated people.Kale is another favorite of mine, I really loved his interactions with his family, particularly his father and brother, and watching him grow as a person. I don’t often thoroughly enjoy coming of age stories but this was an exception. I think it’s because he was a fairly mature character given his age, he was still stubborn and teenagery at times, but overall reading his chapters didn’t make me cringe or get irritated with angst you can see in other teenage pov’s.All of these characters had unique voices, and they all totally captured my attention – well done!Final Score: 9/10------------------------------------------------------World Building:I think the world building may have been my favorite part of the book, each culture was really fascinating and very different from one another.Ruka’s mother is called “God Born” which allows her to claim the title of “First Mother”. As “First Mother” she can lay claim to any man in the village she wants to take as a mate or husband, or multiple men if that’s what she wants. Ruka’s mother, Beyla, was quick to use this as a threat to get out of certain situations in the village.In Ruka’s culture, it’s believed that women are sort of automatically accepted into paradise, but that men have to earn it through great deeds.“Noss Touched” people usually have a deformity of some kind that makes them stand out from the rest, they are considered to be touched by the God of Chaos and those people born Noss Touched are typically ostracized. Ruka is Noss Touched, he and his mother had an encounter with a group of women who told Beyla she should have gotten rid of the child, and that he’s a freak of nature.Some of the POV’s take place in a frost bitten land, and the other POV is set in a tropical environment, it really kept things interesting switching back and forth.The King of Sri Kon is considered a Sorcerer King, and has been rumoured to have killed members of his own family.The city where Dala is living there is a class of people known as “Nightmen”, who remain “unchosen” and have no wives. They are considered the bottom of humanity and treated with little more dignity than animals. Dala is forming them into a group known as the “Nameless” who are striking back at society by murdering their oppressors.Final Score: 9/10--------------------------------------------------------------Pacing/Prose/Tone:The book opens with a young boy being hacked apart to be eaten, so you sort of know right away what kind of story this is going to be, and although it wasn’t all dark, there were definitely some moments where I was like “wtf”.The pacing here may vary, I think some people could be tripped up by how long it can take to switch pov’s, you could feel like you’re starting all over again when you get to a new pov or were really invested in one pov and then it switches. I loved all 3 POV’s so I sailed right through, I read this in under 24 hours and it’s 600 pages long.I really loved the writing, it’s rare when I can highlight someone’s writing in Indie – that’s not meant as an insult, but many indie authors are debut or new authors and it sort of shows. Most SPFBO books I’ve rated the writing around a 7, which means it serviced the story and I wasn’t tripped up by awkward writing, but it wasn’t anything exceptional. I can’t believe this was a debut, everything flowed nicely, the dialogue was believable and I caught 0 errors. I am a far cry from an editor, but I usually catch something.Pacing Final Score: 8/10Writing Final Score: 8.75/10----------------------------------------------------------------------Originality:This had completely unique world building – the cultures, the religions, the environments were all fresh.Final Score: 8.75/10----------------------------------------------------Audience:For people who like multi povFor people who like unique world buildingFor people who like darker storiesFor people who like villain or dark POVsFor people who like coming of age storiesFor people who like character driven stories---------------------------------------------------------Wrap Up:I thoroughly enjoyed this book, I would recommend it to anyone who likes multi pov epic fantasy. I would say that if you’re not sure where the plot is going, and you’re getting kind of worried it won’t come together – it does. 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