The noble class that he is revenging on was seriously in need of some revenging, and so I was 100% on board with his quest the entire time. Tau is a great character, because he’s not infallible, even when he is at his most badass, and we see his failures just as much as we see his wins. This is a fantastic bit of writing, people. It even throws in a childhood love interest from the tiny village they’re from in and manages to make that feel like an archetype I’d never read before. It takes the ‘farmboy goes on quest for revenge against the people that killed his family’ idea and it makes it fresh and unique and very, very hard to set aside to get other things done. Tau is willing to go to great lengths to get his revenge. But, as Nobles are gifted fighters, it will take a lot of training for Tau to reach a level where vengeance is possible. When the Nobles that Tau spends his whole life serving betray him, he seeks vengeance. Tau is a Lesser, but he is a Lesser on his own personal mission. The Gifted have the magical powers, the Nobles have the political power, and the Lessers are basically servants and fodder for the war effort. Their society is built of different castes, based on bloodlines and magical powers. This story follows the Omehi people, who are fighting what is essentially an unwinnable war with the people whose land they occupied when they were forced out of their own.

He’ll become the greatest swordsman to ever live, a man willing to die a hundred thousand times for the chance to kill the three who betrayed him. Fixated on revenge, Tau dedicates himself to an unthinkable path. Those closest to him are brutally murdered, and his grief swiftly turns to anger. He’s going to get himself injured, get out early, and settle down to marriage, children, and land. Young, gift-less Tau knows all this, but he has a plan of escape. One in every hundred men is able to magically transform himself into a bigger, stronger, faster killing machine.Įveryone else is fodder, destined to fight and die in the endless war. One in every two thousand women has the power to call down dragons. Their society has been built around war and only war. The Omehi people have been fighting an unwinnable fight for almost two hundred years. I finally got myself the audiobook after a friend’s insistence that I really should make this my next read and boy, was she right! I’ve had this book on my TBR for a long, long time.

The rage of dragons book review