Ruin, John Gwynne
Ruin, John Gwynne
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Ruin

Author: John Gwynne

Narrator: Damian Lynch

Unabridged: 28 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Orbit

Published: 10/08/2019


Synopsis

The Banished Lands are engulfed in war and chaos.

The cunning Queen Rhin has conquered the west and High King Nathair has the cauldron, most powerful of the seven treasures. At his back stands the scheming Calidus and a warband of the Kadoshim, dread demons of the Otherworld. They plan to bring Asroth and his host of the Fallen into the world of flesh, but to do so they need the seven treasures. Nathair has been deceived but now he knows the truth. He has choices to make, choices that will determine the fate of the Banished Lands.

Elsewhere the flame of resistance is growing -- Queen Edana finds allies in the swamps of Ardan. Maquin is loose in Tenebral, hunted by Lykos and his corsairs. Here he will witness the birth of a rebellion in Nathair's own realm.
Corban has been swept along by the tide of war. He has suffered, lost loved ones, sought only safety from the darkness. But he will run no more. He has seen the face of evil and he has set his will to fight it. The question is, how?

With a disparate band gathered about him -- his family, friends, giants, fanatical warriors, an angel and a talking crow he begins the journey to Drassil, the fabled fortress hidden deep in the heart of Forn Forest. For in Drassil lies the spear of Skald, one of the seven treasures, and here it is prophesied that the Bright Star will stand against the Black Sun.

About John Gwynne

John Gwynne studied and lectured at Brighton University. He's played double bass in a rock 'n' roll band, packed soap in a soap factory and dug ditches for a landscaping crew.He is married with four children, eight goats, five sheep, three dogs, two horses and three ducks and lives in East Sussex, where he is part of a Viking re-enactment group. When not writing or running around after his wife and her crazy animals he can be found standing in a shield wall with his three sons about him.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Petrik on March 28, 2019

Intense, brutal, gory, poignant, epic, and filled with love and vengeance; John Gwynne simply can do no wrong "Two for vengeance. One for Love." Ruin, the third book in The Faithful and the Fallen series is a great example of how a penultimate epic fantasy installment ought to be written.......more

Goodreads review by Matt's Fantasy Book Reviews on April 02, 2022

An unimaginably magnificent book that somehow is better than the first two in the series WOW. I simply can't get over how amazing Ruin was. My expectations of it were sky high, and it's even better than I ever imagined it would be. The first two books in this series were easy 5/5s for me, but if 6/5......more

Goodreads review by James on February 10, 2017

Ruin is Gwynne's third novel in his stunning epic fantasy saga, The Faithful and the Fallen. The fabled God-War is no longer a mythical looming prophecy; it is very real and the events unfolding within The Banished Lands are presented to us by a plethora of vivid and dramatic characters. The perspec......more

Goodreads review by Jay on January 11, 2025

4.5 stars✨ TRUTH AND COURAGE I am sooo glad i ended this year with this AMAZING book!!! This series has completely taken over my life and I’m so glad I started this during the winter break because let’s be real I would’ve 100% skipped classes just to keep reading. It’s that good. The way Gwynne weaves......more

Goodreads review by Bentley ★ Bookbastion.net on June 21, 2019

See this review and more like it on www.bookbastion.net! _________ John Gwynne, how could you hurt me like this? I'm going to need some time to heal after this one. Engaging, fast-paced, and thoroughly brutal, I feel like Ruin certainly lived up to its name, because that's what it tried to do to my he......more