There are so many small but moving scenes in these books and they felt so real. This is one of the reasons why you will love the characters so much. Love and family! Something I just have to give Gwynne a standing ovation for is how he writes love between family and friends. There are also plenty of large scale battles and Gwynne really knows how to put you in the middle of it and feel like you're ducking from every sword blow yourself. There is a duel in one of the later books that is one the most impressive pieces of action I've every read in any fiction. Better than Abercrombie (yes Abercrombie is the standard I hold every author to). The battle scenes! John Gwynne is simply the best at writing action. You'll know when you read all the awful things these guys do. We are talking Dolores Umbridge levels here.
The series also has some of the most hateable villains ever. They are kind and courageous, loyal to each other, and you'll grow to love them, and your heart will break for all the tragedies they go through, and when they die. They aren't perhaps as interesting as Abercrombie's characters, but they are simply so likeable. The characters! Granted, I'm still relatively new to the genre but I haven't read any books with more likeable characters than the protagonists in TFatF. I promise you, even if you are one of those readers who struggles with Malice, you will come to love this series. In the cons section below I'll discuss some of my issues with the series, but the Faithful and the Fallen is really one of those series where you just have to enjoy the ride. The whole series is just non-stop action. But the plot starts picking up and the final third is just amazing.Īfter the climax of Malice, Gwynne never takes his foot off the gas. It wasn't really until halfway through that I really started to connect with the characters. It starts very slow and the constant shifting between new POV:s in different parts of the world was quite jarring. Now, I'm going to be honest and say that I had several issues with the first book Malice, and from what I've seen many people share this opinion. The series consists of four novels: Malice, Valour, Ruin, and Wrath. I finished this series yesterday after almost two months reading, and I need to gush and talk about it before I can start reading anything else. I know this series gets talked about often lately, but John Gwynne deserves all the attention. Another post about The Faithful and the Fallen you might think? Yes, sorry.
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