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The Raveling: The Complete Saga

By: Alec Hutson
Narrated by: Guy Williams
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2016 Ink and Insights Competition – Judges’ Favorite

2017 Readers' Favorite Award for Epic Fantasy

Second in the 2017 SPFBO

#1 Amazon Best Seller in Epic Fantasy

Long ago, the world fell into twilight, when the great empires of old consumed each other in sorcerous cataclysms. In the south, the Star Towers fell, swallowed by the sea, while the black glaciers descended upon the northern holdfasts, entombing the cities of Min-Ceruth in ice and sorcery. Then from the ancient empire of Menekar, the paladins of Ama came, putting every surviving sorcerer to the sword and cleansing their taint from the land for the radiant glory of their lord.

The pulse of magic slowed, fading like the heartbeat of a dying man.

But after a thousand years, it has begun to quicken again.

In a small fishing village, a boy with strange powers comes of age....

A young queen rises in the west, fanning the long-smoldering embers of magic into a blaze once more....

Something of great importance is stolen – or freed – from the mysterious Empire of Swords and Flowers....

And the immortals who survived the ancient cataclysms bestir themselves, casting about for why the world is suddenly changing....

The complete, award-winning epic series in one volume.

©2020 Alec Hutson (P)2020 Alec Hutson Epic Epic Fantasy Fantasy Fiction Magic Sorcery Heartfelt
Engaging Storylines • Complex Characters • Unique Worldbuilding • Complete Trilogy • Unexpected Twists • Great Pacing
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It needs to be said that this title came off as young adult, due to the main character being incredibly naive and ignorant. It felt this was intentional, but the relatively short timeline of the stories didn't allow for much growth. The poor young sorcerer got into his version of Hogwarts, only to stay a few weeks, departing unschooled in even the simplest of spells. A good device to let other characters shine, but this also left some amazing magical performances perplexing.

That being said, the narration was very 'listenable'. with vocal distinction between characters making things easy to sort out. It was very nice having the POV for each character stated at the beginning of each chapter, because while the stories all tie together, the character arcs overlap enough that it could have gotten confusing.

The world building aspect isn't hamfisted but rather assisted by the various encounters and events. There is some repetition, and some things are left unexplained - but that is the case in most world event stories. I would like to see the adult version of this character in future.

Worth the Credit...if you have patience

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I am glad that I transcended the negative reviews on this one.
The writing is poetic and the reading is in the storytelling spirit.
I enjoyed the characters and the situations as well as the environmental backdrops.

Great Series

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I really enjoyed this epic adventure and the characters. I sometimes don't like when there are multiple character story lines, but I found it was done nicley and I was interested in the different lines, and how they come together. They didn't give you cliffhangers when changing between storylines - a cheap trick - instead they were satisfying. It was a lovely mix of struggles and rewards, and genuinely caring for the characters "good" and "bad". I am very glad I gave it a try.
it is hard to find good stories these days.

very enjoyable time spent

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Glad it was all compiled into 1 bigger book, I would not have spend my credit on a smaller book. Great pacing! Brain Sanderson’s stormlight 4 could learn a lot about how to pace and tell a story from this series.

Wow great!

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It took me a bit to get back into it, but overall I enjoyed it. My only complaint is the main character Keilan. Keilan is the most useless and plain main character I've ever read about and only the rest of the characters kept me interested in the story. It just seemed like he was a plot devise to move the story along, and everything he did had little to no consequence except for one thing toward the end. Other than that the story itself is pretty interesting and unique.

Good story, bad main character

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never even heard of it before, but I was pleasantly surprised as someone that like complex fantasy. The performance was excellent, and the story had some pretty dark stuff. Complex charecters, made you feel for the bad guys too (except for the demon children with no eyes...but even then a little). It was good, and cheap as Ingot all three books for like $8. Very happy.

A nice surprise!

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The story goes smoothly, with hardly any respite between adventures.
The narrating voice is good.

Seamless story

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Nothing happens at any point. I forced myself to finish because I paid for it.

Yawn

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This was a good story but just once I would like to read a fantasy story that doesn’t have abductions and maiming in it. It’s so formulaic. The magic system is inventive and the story is good but the author uses so many cliches that it almost ruins the book. I still recommend it though. I enjoyed it but it was very frustrating at times.

Decent story but it’s formulaic in places

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could have been a much better story if it had been less descriptive and spent more time story telling and character building.

Over-descriptive and flowery

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