The Burning God

How it reads

The Burning God is fantasy (epic fantasy, specifically), and its dominant mood is dark. It goes to difficult places and doesn't look away. It moves fast: plot-driven and hard to put down, the kind of book that carries you along even when you're tired.

It's set in several locations, in the historical past, told in the third person, staying close to one character. Its central concerns are war, power and politics and survival. In weight it's heavy and literary — denser, more serious, and more demanding of you.

It's a later book in a series — you'll usually want to start earlier. The ending is dark — no rescue, no neat bow. It's a long book, and a real commitment. It's well known, the kind of book most keen readers have heard of.