Book Review: Blood of an Exile (Dragons of Terra, #1) by Brian Naslund
ARC provided by the publisher—Pan Macmillan—in exchange for an honest review.
Blood of an Exile by Brian Naslund
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Series: Dragons of Terra (Book #1 of 3)
Genre: Fantasy, High Fantasy
Pages: 416 pages (Hardcover edition)
Published: August 8th, 2019 by Tor (UK) & August 6th, 2019 by Tor (US)
Blood of an Exile has dragons and dragonslayer, if you love a great fantasy debut with dragons, I doubt you’ll be reading the rest of this review.
And yet I will still write one. Blood of an Exile is Brian Naslund’s debut. It’s the first book in the Dragons of Terra trilogy. The story follows the Silas Bershad the Flawless, an exile who was supposed to die after he was caught trying to assassinate a noble. Bershad, the most famous and successful dragonslayer in the world, receive a task from the man who exiled him in the first place. The mission is to kill a king and save an innocent child in captive, only then he’ll be pardoned from his crime. With that kind of nickname, the premise led me to believe that this would be an ultimate Gary-Stu story but what I got was something more in-depth and empathizing. Without giving spoilers, there’s a rule to Bershad’s rumored “immortality” and “strength”; he’s not always immortal and full of strength 24 hours, and I found the mystery behind his power to be one of the main driving force of the narrative.
“Heroes and villains morphing out of the same people based on rumors and reputations and the simple passage of time.