The Iron Ghost
The Iron Ghost book cover

The Iron Ghost

Paperback – January 3, 2017

Price
$14.99
Format
Paperback
Pages
512
Publisher
Angry Robot
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-0857665799
Dimensions
0.04 x 0.04 x 0.04 inches
Weight
0.035 ounces

Description

Review “Williams has thrown out the rulebook and injected a fun tone into epic fantasy without lightening or watering down the excitement and adventure. Indeed, The Iron Ghost has its fairly brutal moments, like the best epic fantasy, but is shot through with a very contemporary sensibility. Highly recommended.” — The Independent “A highly inventive, vibrant high fantasy with a cast you can care about; fast-moving enough to ensure there is never a dull moment, but with sufficient depth to feel the outcome matters.” — British Fantasy Society “The highly anticipated sequel to the entertaining The Copper Promise , which featured appealing leads with a tendency to put self-interest ahead of heroism.” — The Guardian “I loved this novel. It’s a very smooth read, and I found myself turning the pages late into the night, unable to sleep without seeing what happened next.” — Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog “Williams’s storytelling abilities are on full display here as is her great ability with character development and character interactions.” — SFF World “Jen Williams is a force to be reckoned with. This modern fantasy is epic in scale but never loses the focus on her beloved characters. Pick it up for the fantasy but stay for the frankly incredible writing. Williams stands up on her own against some of the powerhouses like Sanderson and Jordan.” — San Franciso Book Review About the Author Jen Williams lives in London with her partner and their cat. She started writing about pirates and dragons as a young girl and has never stopped. Her short stories have featured in numerous anthologies and she was nominated for Best Newcomer in the 2015 British Fantasy Awards. sennydreadful.co.uk twitter.com/sennydreadful Author hometown: London, UK

Features & Highlights

  • A simple fetch quest turns into something much more when ancient magic intervenes—the “highly anticipated” follow up to the “entertaining” epic fantasy,
  • The Copper Promise
  • (
  • The Guardian
  • )
  • Wydrin of Crosshaven, Sir Sebastian and Lord Aaron Frith are experienced in the perils of stirring up the old gods. They are also familiar with defeating them, and the heroes of Baneswatch are now enjoying the perks of suddenly being very much in demand for their services. When a job comes up in the distant city of Skaldshollow, it looks like easy coin: retrieve a stolen item, admire the views, get paid. But in a place twisted and haunted by ancient magic—and with the most infamous mage of them all, Joah Demonsworn, making a reappearance—our heroes soon find themselves threatened by enemies on all sides, old and new. And in the frozen mountains, the stones are walking . . .

Customer Reviews

Rating Breakdown

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Most Helpful Reviews

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Good tale

Recommend this author and trilogy. Hard to put down.
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One of the Best Epic Fantasies to Hit the market

Wow, can somebody get me an armchair please, I’m exhausted!

I said after reading The Copper Promise, that I felt as though I had physically and emotionally experienced the whole adventure with our misshaped band of heroes who were introduced in the novel. But, that feeling was intensified in The Iron Ghost tenfold.

The characters that I had already started to love in the first book Wydrin, Sebastian, and Frith are carefully developed and more of their personalities divulged. As a reader, I have become very connected to these characters and their personality quirks, there are things I really don’t like about some of them and things I love about them. Leaving me finding the characters real and relatable.

The writing is magnetising, once you are drawn in you don’t want to put the book down. Having to stop reading for any reason is painful, you are truly a part of each and every moment which is happening in this novel.

Jen Williams is truly establishing herself as a new leader in this genre. Her ability to weave an enchanting story which also captures true human emotion with some epic battles and creatures to test your imagination is going to go down with the greats.

A huge thanks to Headline Publishing Group for the ARC via BookBridgr so that I could read and honestly review this book.