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The Waking Fire

Book One of Draconis Memoria

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 Anthony Ryan - author of fantasy sensation Blood Song - returns with The Waking Fire, a thrilling new epic fantasy of exploration and adventure, spies and assassins, explosive magic and the furious battle to forge an empire.

For decades the lands of the Ironship Syndicate have been defended by the Blood-blessed - men and women able to channel the powers contained in the potent blood of wild drakes. Elite spies and assassins, their loyalty has established the Syndicate's position as the greatest power in the known world.

Yet now a crisis looms. The drake bloodlines are weakening, and war with the Corvantine Empire seems inevitable. The Syndicate's only hope of survival lies with the myth of a legendary drake, whose powerful blood might just turn the tide of the war - if it even exists.

The task of hunting down this fabled creature falls to Claydon Torcreek, a petty thief and unregistered Blood-blessed. He's handled many valuable things in his time (most of them illegal) but nothing as priceless as his nation's future.©2016 Anthony Ryan Fantasy Fiction War Espionage

Critic reviews

Ryan has weaved a bright and magical world for you to explore along with the wonderfully woven prose as a guide, through what is sure to be another fantasy classic
The Waking Fire is a marvellous piece of imagination with plenty of twists, a refreshingly different setting and excellent world-building. A great read (Mark Lawrence)
A major new talent
Anthony Ryan is David Gemmell's natural successor and epic fantasy's best British talent
Memorable characters and great action (Django Wexler)
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the most adventurous sounding battle ever made to sound like a drudge march I forgot half the story thanks to the narrator but got the jist thanks to the well written story itself

the narrator made me board

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I really enjoyed Anthony Ryans previous trilogy so was some what surprised to find this in the steampunk genre. Normally I wouldn't go with this, but as I already downloaded it I gave it a go. To my surprise I really enjoyed this book. A wild mix of victorian type era fantasy world mixed with dragons. Steven Brand is certainly a reasonable narrator and despite previous comments I didn't find his lack of character voices detracted too much from the story. Looking forward to the next in the series.

A Wild Steampunk Adventure

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another hood book from mr ryan. It starts out a little slowly but is well worth the wait when it picks up.

excellent

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Where do you begin with a book like this? I tried to think of other books it's like but I honestly think that this is going to be a book I try to relate others to.

Now stop reading reviews and just listen to the book.

Speechless

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loved the new book whole new word of fantasy
looking forward to next one well

well read great book

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