I don’t know why it has taken me so long to getting round to reading this book as the book blurb sucks me in each time I’m choosing which book to read next from my TBR list!
And now I wish I hadn’t waited so long!! I won’t be making that mistake with the next 2 books in the series.
Fantasy fiction isn’t my first “Go Too” genre of books but when I do find books in this category they end up being 1 of my favourites. Like Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series I have re read all 14 of the books numerous times and I can now see myself re reading these books as well.
I am pretty confident that if you are a fan of the Lord of the Rings and Wheel of Time books that you will love this book as much as I do.
It isn’t a quick read or a terribly fast-moving plot but I like that about it, there’s nothing like getting your teeth stuck into a good series and knowing that there is enough reading material to keep you engrossed for weeks at a time as opposed to a day at a time!
There are a fair few different aspects and feels (if that’s even a real word!) to this book that it will have appeal to a wide range of readers, Fantasy with a dose of Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure, Romance (paranormal of course) and a flair of Steam Punk combine to make up this world that Christian A. Brown has created and transported his readers too. Almost as though you are seeing this realm and the characters through a virtual reality headset minus the motion sickness! But I think it might just be me alone on the planet that gets motion sickness from watching things like Avatar in 3D!!
But that is probably the best way i can sum up this book for me personally. As immersive as watching Avatar in 3D for the first time at the cinema!! Minus the almost having to be sick in the popcorn bucket!! I wasn’t thank god but it was close. My son has never taken me to the cinema since 🙂
I haven’t gone into details about the book’s plot as the book blurb is descriptive enough and as it is not a new book hitting the shelves there are plenty of reviews recapping the plot for future readers so I will leave my review as a simple book recommendation, and I do honestly highly recommend this book to anyone and everyone, not just Fantasy fans!
If you do decide to take the plunge and pick up this book, Happy reading and I hope you enjoy it as much as I have!
You can pick up a copy now from Amazon.co.uk for £0.99 ( )

Morigan and Caenith discover each other, and That Love that we all wish for. This was a fantastic Fantasy world, because, as with all the best stories, there is Good vs. Evil, Right but not quite, Wrong but not completely. There are also several sub-stories that eventually all weave together.
I received an e-copy of this story for my honest review. ( )

This was a DNF book for me. It was so horrible that I was debating on whether or not to review it. However, I'm reviewing it because, unlike The Time Roads by Beth Bernobich, I didn't DNF it because it was horribly written, but because of two back-to-back absolutely disgusting, horrifying, graphic, completely unnecessary rape scenes. I've been unsettled by violent scenes in both books and movies, but this wasn't just unsettling. These scenes were so disturbing that I felt physically ill, betrayed by the author, and unable to move onto another book. I had to take several quiet hours to myself to recover. The next day I tried to continue, but a victim of one of the assaults forgives her husband and thinks to herself that it wasn't his fault because he had been taken over by some kind of evil being.

I can't recommend Feast of Fates to anyone, but if you decide to read it anyway, please understand that "trigger warning" is an understatement for this book. I'm not even going to give it one star.

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This book BLEW ME AWAY! Once I really started getting into it, I could not put it down. Absolutely something that I needed to find in the Epic Fantasy genre that feels new and familiar at the same time. Feast of Fates by Christian A Brown is a book that is a must read for fans of Lord of the Rings and A Song of Ice and Fire.

I confess, I am a horrible person. When I first started this book, I had no idea what I was getting into. I picked it up in 2014 and read the first 10% and thought, this is not what I had in mind. At the start, you meet the three fates and I thought yes, this is good. I like this. But then, viewpoint switches over to handmaiden Morigan and a smith named Caenith. Things seemed to get hot and heavy and that was when I put the book away for a LONG time. I didn’t want to read another epic fantasy with gratuitous sex or romance.

Finally, earlier this month, I decided to finish reading all of the books I picked up but put away, and came back to Feast of Fates. I am a fool for putting it down when I did. Right as their romance is starting, viewpoint switches again and things GET GOOD. We meet the rest of the main players of Geadhain: a pair of immortal Kings born of the earth and time itself (so it seems), a pair of Queens fighting a war away from the Kings, a former pleasure slave turned spy messenger, a reanimated dead man, an elderly mage, a wolf in men’s clothing, a metal mouth sadist, a selkie, and a psychotic necromancer. All of these wildly different characters (and more I’ve not mentioned) connected. Where one moves, the others follow and react in an elegant dance of intrigue and warfare. And through it all remain Morigan, the handmaiden, finding the threads of each character attached to her.

The characters are amazingly fleshed out. I want to know about all of them, the Kings, the Fates, Sorren (who is a horror and a madman, yet one of my favourites?!). They each carry their own voice through the book and their motivations for their journey remain true. Morigan, the main heroine, rings likeable and believable, which is quite a feat considering her origin and powers. Mr. Brown tactfully was able to ground her, show that she is not invincible, that she is not a “Mary Sue” (a term I despise.)

As I mentioned earlier, the book reminded a bit of the A Song of Ice and Fire series. It has the intrigue and multiple converging storylines and characters, but not the gratuitousness for the sake of being gratuitous that ASOIAF has. It does amazingly well with world building, creating unique biomes with their own cultures, landscapes, and rules.

For me, however, where the story truly thrives, is in its writing. That is where I think of Lord of the Rings. It feels epic. It feels grand. The writing is descriptive, but purposeful. It does not over encumber the reader. Every word feels carefully chosen, every description and detail given means something and brings knowledge to the reader. There is also a big great doom as one (if not the) main enemy, but as Sauron was the enemy in LotR, and Melkor before him. There are bonds created through necessity, through kinship, through blood.

The second I finished Feast of Fates by Christian A Brown, I immediately told my fellow fantasy readers, go, buy this now, read it. I myself am buying a physical copy of this and of the next instalment in the series, Feast of Dreams, which I cannot wait to begin (but will have to for the time being).

// I received this title for free in exchange for an honest review // ( )

Feast of Fates is so much more than just a fantasy book, and with it's writing harping back to the old style. If that's you're thing then you will enjoy this, Sadly for me, it isn't. The book is slow paced, to the point of rambling at times, making for confusion.

Although Morigan is a great character, I found it difficult at times to know what was going on. The location descriptions tended to be sparse if there at all, so I was unable to place myself in Morigan's shoes. If you regularly read my reviews, you will know that's a major issue for me.

I hate giving this such a low rating, especially as many others disagree with me, and thoroughly enjoyed the book. I can only offer my personal view. I would love to hear if you enjoy it and why, so why not leave me a comment?

In the meantime, here's a trailer and enjoy. ( )