If you’ve been reading this type of thing for a while now, you will know that that description is nothing new. To the west, a young man whose fate is intertwined with Davian’s wakes up in the forest, covered in blood and with no memory of who he is …And in the far north, an ancient enemy long thought defeated, begins to stir.” But when Davian discovers he wields the forbidden powers of the Augurs, he sets in motion a chain of events that will change everything. As a young Gifted, Davian suffers the consequences of a war lost before he was even born. Now, those who once served them – the Gifted – are spared only because they have accepted the rebellion’s Four Tenets, vastly limiting their own powers. It has been twenty years since the god-like Augurs were overthrown and killed. But I’m not sure that it’s an unqualified success.įrom the publisher: “AS DESTINY CALLS, A JOURNEY BEGINS. Interestingly released early as an e-book, no doubt to build up that much-needed ‘word of mouth’, this one has been described to me as ‘the next Brent Weeks’, ‘the next Brandon Sanderson’ and ‘for fans of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time.’ to find that it really, really isn’t.Īnd the reason for this preamble is that this debut novel has been spoken of in such a manner. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve been told that a book will be by ‘the next Stephen King, George RR Martin, Peter F Hamilton, Iain M Banks’, etc. The difficulty sometimes is that the two opinions do not always combine. Our job then is to let people know, which is also usually great fun.Īn alternative view is that we get told of things by publishers that are going to be ‘the next big thing’. One of the great things about being a book reviewer is that we do sometimes get a glimpse into things early that we hope are going to be great.

The shadow of what was lost review