If you’re a fan of either Wheel of Time or Sanderson’s work, or maybe both, I think you have a great chance of loving this debut I certainly did. I do, however, consider Sanderson as one of the greatest fantasy authors of all time. For clarification, I’m not even a fan of Wheel of Time, I have DNFed the series upon finishing the fourth installment, and I’m not sure when I’ll get back to it. For the past three years, I’ve been hearing that if you love The Wheel of Time and Sanderson’s books, you’re going to love this trilogy, and they’re not wrong. Honestly, the only excuse I had for postponing reading this series for so long-even though I shouldn’t-was because of the famous cliffhangers endings of each book in the series that I’ve heard of, and I was waiting for the series to be completed.

The Shadow of What Was Lost was recommended to me by my co-blogger, TS, for the first time in January 2017, and I have never gotten around to it until now. Islington took the best part-and cut all the unnecessary bloating-of Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan, maintained the inspirations he got from Sanderson’s Mistborn, and Islington added his own twists and originality into this highly ambitious debut. I have a Booktube channel now! Subscribe here: And 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… To the north, an ancient enemy long thought defeated begins to stir. Worse, as Davian struggles with his lessons, he knows that there is further to fall if he cannot pass his final tests.īut when Davian discovers he has the ability to wield the forbidden power of the Augurs, he sets into motion a chain of events that will change everything. Despised by most beyond the school walls, he and those around him are all but prisoners as they attempt to learn control of the Gift. A representation of these laws is now written into the flesh of any who use the Gift, forcing those so marked into absolute obedience.Īs a student of the Gifted, Davian suffers the consequences of a war fought-and lost-before he was born.

Those who had ruled under them, men and women with a lesser ability known as the Gift, avoided the Augurs' fate only by submitting themselves to the rebellion's Four Tenets. The dictatorial Augurs-once thought of almost as gods-were overthrown and wiped out during the conflict, their much-feared powers mysteriously failing them. It has been twenty years since the end of the war.

In the shadow of what was lost