My Experience with The Fall by Ryan Cahill

Some beginnings are slow, and that’s the natural way of things with many epic fantasy tales. On the contrary, Ryan Cahill’s prequel to his The Bound and the Broken series starts with a novella that’s almost nonstop action, a thrill ride of war, magic, and legendary creatures. The Fall is set four hundred years before the first book in the series, the novella is a head-first dive into the deep end of Cahill’s legendarium, following the fall of an empire and the rise of a new world order. Immediately I can see overtones of The Stormlight Archive, The Wheel of Time, and The Dragonriders of Pern. I can’t wait to see the repercussions of the regime change in the first full-length novel.