The Moontide Quartet is perhaps the most understated fantasy series currently being written. It features a wide, diverse cast of characters spread out over dual continents. Focusing on a clash of civilisations storyline, David Hair offers a tale that encapsulates epic fantasy to its entirety— Fantasy Book Critic, The Year’s Top Ten

Mummies: I know very little about this game line, but my hunch is that it tastes horrendous and gives less Vitae. Mummies being time defying corpse-sorcerers and all. It might even leave some vampires very uneasy by giving them small glimpses of Duat when they go into torpor. I found her to be a fascinating character with a great plotline where I was instantly hooked and constantly on my toes, wondering what would happen next. She's a very strong lady with some excellent skills, but she's up against the best too so she has to bring her A-game. In neighbouring Northern Lakh, Ramita Ankesharan instead of having a comfortable life of love next (shabby) door, finds herself a commodity in family bargain and is traded away to a distant land in what is a rather humiliating marriage of convenience. Even though I enjoyed Alaron’s line the most, Ramita is without any doubt my favourite heroine in the whole story. An ordinary girl in extraordinary circumstances showing her integrity and steadfastness does not sound like a very compelling MC but trust Ramita to win you over.For all that, though, what I most adored about Mage’s Blood was its unflinching focus on character, particularly as regards Meiros and Ramita, and Ramita and Kazim. The incremental evolution of these strained relationships over the course of the first of The Moontide Quartet’s four volumes is as emotional as it is surprising. By the conclusion, these three are completely different people, and in the interim, Hair handles their development very well. In this way, Kazim is fashioned into an assassin, with sights set on his former lover’s hated husband. Prometheans: might infuse the vampire with a bit of the humor associated with the promethean's Lineage, leading to mood swings. While the Divine Fire is not literal fire, it can still command its physical version. The Divine Fire might not like the feeling of powering an undead that isn't "meant" to become human. What dangers that might pose to the vampire, I am not sure. Maybe something kinda like a Pandoran happens if said vampire Embraces someone shortly after feeding on a promethean. If the vampire keeps getting in the way of Pilgrimages, the Divine Fire might even send Qashmallim to manipulate events so that said vampire Embraces someone. (The Divine Fire being what it is, another possible scenario is that the vampire might be coerced into messing with Pilgrimages more actively) The Rondian emperor, overlord of the west, is hell-bent on ruling both continents, and for the last two Moontides he has led armies of battle-magi across the bridge on crusades of conquest, pillaging his way across Antiopa. At first the continents of Yuros and Antiopia started trading, but eventually -as humans are- the nations of Yuros under the yoke of the Rondalian empire started crusades against the people of Antiopia.

Double-Influenced Item "So desperate was I for control, I turned my entire world into a prison. Now you will share in my agony." The story begins roughly one year before 'Moontide' and we're introduced to characters from both sides of the divide. As stated before, David Hair has eschewed the trap of making each place monolithic; there's a lot of different countries and races all with different stakes and loyalties and this is in flux throughout. Alaron has two great friends, Cym and Ramon, who are also magically inclined. Ramon is his friend within the academy, Cym is a gypsy who Alaron teaches, and together they're the best of friends.The Apothecary The Apothecary 5 Mageblood "You seek the power of my strongest potions, but the price will be far higher than you can imagine." Finally we have Alaron who is a Mage-in-training at the Academy. He's a quarter-blood which means that he has a pretty good chance of passing his exams and helping to get his family out of the financial issues they have been having when he finishes his time there.

This review is for the entire series and will be posted to each book. I flipped between the Kindle and audiobooks for each book, depending on my circumstances, but the audiobook narration was so good that sometimes I’d listen even if I was in a position to read. I really loved this series and wish it had and was getting more press. Hey you word of mouth folks! Talk about this series! As an avid fantasy reader, I’m a bit embarrassed that this series has been around since 2012 and I hadn’t read it yet. Also, unlike some, it doesn’t feel aged. It certainly tested my patience for a while, but the immersive capability of the engaging writing and the superbly written characterizations in Mage’s Blood impressively pulled me into Urte. It’s enormous in scope, and it’s full of flawed-characters that I empathize with; by the end of the novel, I am seriously excited—and terrified—to know what will happen next to the characters of the series. Many bad things have happened, and it seems like their torturous fate has only just begun. I’m moving onto Scarlet Tides immediately. But well done David Hair; this world is massive. The plot is intriguing; two continents are separated by an impassable ocean. A powerful mage had constructed a colossal bridge that links the continents but can only be accessed once every few decades at low tide. A Crusade is to take place and both sides are preparing the chaos that will inevitably happen.

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But secretly she's an agent for the Yuros spymaster Gurvon Gyle. Cause as the third crusade seems inevitable, the nations of Antiopia believing in the god Ahm (think muslims) are about to declare shihad (you know what to think) on the heathens and Gyle tries to move Javon not to take part in this holy war. Bullying in schools and online is a very serious problem and we, as writers and readers, need to do everything in our power to raise awareness and combat this issue that severely harms our children. And go they do. Over the course of the year. All get quite decent arcs that do leave them in very different places at the end of the book to where they were at the start. And I was reasonably enough invested in them as well, such that when it got close to the end a good bit of jeopardy did have me really worried. To make the reader get invested like that is decent writing. Normal and Unique Flasks are unaffected and can be used as normal. Magic Life, Mana, or Hybrid Flasks are also unaffected. So proclaimeth the living saint Lucia Fasterius, with whose elevation Mage’s Blood begins. The mother of the Emperor in the West seems “intelligent, learned — kindly, even. But in her eyes something fanatic lurked, like a venomous snake.” This idea in particular proves pivotal to the narrative elements ahead, though the Mater-Imperia does a bang-up job of preparing readers in a more general sense, speaking as she does to what is clearly the quartet’s core conflict—between opposing beliefs and competing creeds, and the people caught in the crossfire—as well as introducing us to one of the opening act’s most fascinating characters.