Clearwater Dawn (The Exile's Blade) Review

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Clearwater Dawn (The Exile's Blade) ReviewThe fantasy world Scott Fitzgerald Gray has weaved with Clearwater Dawn is gloriously alive and complex but not overbearingly so. This is an adult fantasy action adventure in the greatest way. If you liked JRR Tolkien's prose and language, you will be enchanted with the language of this prose. In a different way, it's just as sublime and as original. It begs to be read aloud. The plot is crafted with a love for detail and the characters are thinking people with plans and hopes, loves, and hate that reach across each other like arms outstretched. The action is worthy of the name as arrows fly and blood is spilled.

Other authors try to overwhelm with magical fancies, but Gray is patient and his magic is subtle in ways that show he is not laying it on for effect. There is an earnestness to this story that reveals a world, characters, and a court intrigue with a real human touch and purpose. The magic is personal and jealously protected as magic would have been. It's not a thing for spectacles but for protective...and selfish purposes.

Clearwater Dawn is also a story of travel, through landscapes where night hides dangers as well as people's secrets and where towns, armies, and everyday life is illustrated with the fine touch of an author who's lived in that world long enough to bring his readers its greatest features and fanciful idiosyncrasies.

For readers looking for fantasy or simple adventure, this is not a book that will disappoint. You will become a fan as I have.
Clearwater Dawn (The Exile's Blade) Overview"A fantastic read...""Every bit as good as the stories of the Riftwar series...""Rare are the fantasy novels that do so good a job at showing the present as a result of the past..."An apprentice guard in the royal household of Brandishear, Chriani is a capable young warrior held back from attaining his full potential by a lifetime of dark anger. Lauresa is a princess about to be set aside as heir and married off for the sake of treaty -- and the only woman Chriani has ever loved. When his mentor is murdered preventing an assassination attempt within the palace, Chriani is forced to become Lauresa's protector -- the two reconciling a forbidden passion even as they find themselves caught up in a maelstrom of political intrigue, ancient racial hatred, a society living in mortal fear of sorcery, and a decades-old plot to plunge five nations into genocidal war.EXCERPTThe princess faltered. Chriani saw the flick of her eyes, the gleam of blue catching the light as he twisted to follow her gaze. He'd left the dark door open behind him. In the faint light of the corridor, his eyes caught the ripple of shadow that meant movement in the distance. Footsteps, almost silent."You fool," she whispered.Chriani wasn't listening, sheathing his sword with effort as he turned for the door, made to call out to whoever was racing toward them. No idea what he was supposed to say, but he was fairly certain that begging for mercy would be a large part of it.Then the princess was moving behind him, one hand across his mouth even as the other brought the dagger up, close to his throat as she dragged him back. Chriani was startled, as much at being grabbed at all as he was at the strength in her arm. As he stumbled back, though, he felt instinct override any uncertainty. Her blade was a hand's-width from him, more than enough space to go for her wrist. No room to get a decent strike in with the other hand, but her flank was vulnerable and in easy reach, or the soft muscle of her thigh, one sharp blow that would drop her.But even through the instinct, through all the memory of all the hand-to-hand training he'd done at Barien's side, he knew he couldn't do it.No idea what any of this was about, but he couldn't hurt her. Not anymore.He went for the dagger, though. No point in having his throat slit, by accident or otherwise. But even as his hand clamped around her wrist, Lauresa sang...(Download the free preview for more.)

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