Book Review: David Weber’s How Firm a Foundation
The Church and its Inquisition are increasing the torture and executions, dispatching assassins and terrorists. Will the rebels’ foundation, will Charis, be firm enough to survive?
The Church and its Inquisition are increasing the torture and executions, dispatching assassins and terrorists. Will the rebels’ foundation, will Charis, be firm enough to survive?
The juggernaut is bearing down on Charis, but Merlin Athrawes and a handful of extraordinary human beings stand in its path. The Church is about to discover just how potent the power of human freedom truly is.
Charis and Chisholm have allied with each kingdom’s leaders marrying one another. And still Cayleb cannot share the true secrets of Safehold with his Sharleyan.
The Lord Ruler is down, but so is Kelsier, and the task of building a new world is left to Vin, street urchin and now most powerful Mistborn in the land, and the young noble she loves.
The son of the man who invented the machine that unleashed a deadly gas on Seattle intends to rewrite history. His quest will take him under the wall and into a city teeming with ravenous undead, air pirates, criminal overlords, and heavily armed refugees. And only Briar, his mother, can bring him out alive.
Richard realizes the truth of being a War Wizard, having brought down the barrier between the Old and New World. Now Richard must stop the invasion and unite them all under one rule.
Charis still stands, still free, still tolerant, still an island of innovation in a world in which the Church has worked to keep humanity locked at a medieval level of existence.
Ash falls from the sky, mist dominates the night while evil cloaks the land, stifling all life. The future rests on the shoulders of a troublemaker and his apprentice.
The few survivors of the genocide by the Gbaba fled to Safehold where a renegade group instilled mind control and hidden high tech to force humanity to stay at a medieval level. But now a “rebirth” is occurring.
Trapped in a conflict between two men, young Abby struggles to win the aid of the wizard Zedd Zorander, fighting to save the life of a child at the cost of Zedd’s sacred duty and the shadow of an ancient betrayal.