The Shieldbreaker [Book 1] by Thomas Clark Schecter

It’s time. No, past time.

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It has been a minute since I read Shieldbreaker, but I can remember it vividly. Tom Schecter gored me with this series. It features some of, if not, the greatest action sequences and intense fight scenes I’ve read on Substack, and I will push that further still into the realm of total books I’ve read. I do not exaggerate when I say I could hear those fights and see the geography of them as the barreled through. And much like the sneaky siege tactics implemented in the story, the emotion of this book caught me unprepared. The characters are written so well, I could hear them speaking and put myself right into their sandy shoes. I think I commented somewhere that it reminded me of the movie 300. It’s a last desperate stand made by incredibly talented fighters. Plus the action is straight cinematic (I can still picture the eponymous scene). This book is rich, filthy rich, with a whole world of language and culture and history. It feels like a battle you could study in a military class, it reads like a culture you would read about in a history book, right alongside Rome, Persia, and Samaria. In terms of fantasy anywhere, this is top tier stuff folks, do not miss it.

Part of the reason why I wanted to do this little Reviewstack now is because the prequel series to Shieldbreaker is currently dropping — Daughter’s of Vei, and you should get on that too.

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