David Farland’s acclaimed Runelords series introduces a world where the social structure is based upon the magical exchange of “endowments” such as stamina, grace, and wit. The Runelords are those who receive these endowments from their vassals, becoming superhuman in exchange for the responsibility of caring those they have deprived of strength, or beauty, or sight.

Young Prince Gaborn of Mystarria is traveling in disguise on a journey

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Gaborn, the powerless Earth King, must protect his people from the gigantic Reavers, the species moving across his nation en route to their underground lair.

Certain works of fantasy are immediately recognizable as monuments, towering above the rest of the category. Authors of those works, such as Stephen R. Donaldson, Robert Jordan and Terry Goodkind, come immediately to mind. Add to that list David Farland, whose epic fantasy series continues now. The story picks up eight years after the events of Lair of Bones and begins a new chapter in the Runelords saga focusing on Gaborn's son, Fallion. Gaborn,...

Fallion's allies risk everything in an attempt to free him from a vast prison in a world brimming with dark magic, hoping he will be able to mend the strange and fantastic world he created by combining two alternate realities, and which now is under control by a creature of unrelenting evil.