Book Review: Age of Myth (The Legends of the First Empire, #1) by Michael J. Sullivan
Cover art illustrated by Marc Simonetti
Age of Myth by Michael J. Sullivan
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Series: The Legends of the First Empire (Book #1 of 6)
Genre: Fantasy, High Fantasy
Pages: 432 pages (Mass Market Paperback)
Published: 28th June 2016 by Del Rey
It’s always a great feeling when you start a new series from an author whose work you loved and find out their storytelling skill in their first installment of a series has improved. Well done, Michael J. Sullivan.
On my first read of Age of Myth, I gave it a 3.5/5 stars rating. Five years later, today, I finished my reread of the book. Similar to my experience of rereading The Riyria Revelations, I loved Age of Myth more on my second read. Let me enlighten you a bit on why this reread worked so well. And to do this, I will have to compare my experience of reading Age of Myth and The Crown Conspiracy, the first book in The Riyria Revelations series, and also my reread experience of them both.
“If given a choice between a potentially great hardship and doing nothing, people gravitated toward what was most familiar and comfortable. That was why leadership was needed. To do what was necessary rather than what was easy.”
