Lost War

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Lost War (2023, Little, Brown Book Group Limited)

English language

Published Nov. 8, 2023 by Little, Brown Book Group Limited.

ISBN:
9780356519531

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5 stars (1 review)

3 editions

A terrific modern classic fantasy story

5 stars

This starts out very much like a classic fantasy story: a disparate group of adventurers are thrown together on a swords-and-sorcery epic quest to save the world from an unspeakable evil.

But quite quickly you start to realise it's something more than that. The author is a huge AD&D fan and lots of the concepts from that start to appear in the book. After all, every decent D&D campaign also features a fighter, a magic user, a cleric, and an archer.

The world seems loosely based on Celtic Scotland, and the story has the right combination of set battle pieces and world/character building to keep everything moving along nicely. The characters are varied and all have just enough human flaws and failings to be believable.

(Very very mild spoiler warning): There is a plot twist at the end of the story that I'm pretty sure you won't see coming until …