Title: A Brewing Storm
Series: The Fall of the Weavers
Author: E.J. Sutter
Genre: Fantasy
Length: Super Novel (217 pages)
Publisher: Total E-Bound (May 31st, 2013)
Heat Level: Explicit
Heart Rating: ♥♥♥♥♥4.5 Hearts
Reviewer: Thommie
Blurb: The Shadow Worlds are dying. Can two sworn enemies manage to get past their differences and ignore their burning attraction to each other long enough to save them?
Brandon is a Weaver, a member of an old, powerful race. His discovery that Master Weavers are disappearing, presumed murdered, is a shock. Even more so, when he realizes that the person responsible is not actually a person at all, but a Revenant, and worse, the creature also known as the Abomination.
Things are not quite, how they seem, however.
Jaime is a Revenant, a creature born from death and designed to do his Master’s bidding. He’s been living in the shadows for years. Now, the Shadow Worlds are dying, Weavers are disappearing, and Jamie is no longer the only Revenant to survive their Master.
Can these two men ignore the hatred, and the passion, that burns between them, and work together to find out just what is happening to the Universe around them?
They must uncover age-old secrets of the Weavers, and defeat enemies who are closer to them than they’d realized.
Reader Advisory: This book contains scenes of non-consensual sex including the detailed account of a gang rape, not intended for titillation, which some readers may find distressing.
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Review: If you have read Weaveworld by Clive Barker then you will easily get into and understand this world and new series A Brewing Storm introduces us to. No, it’s not the same concept, it’s not an adaptation of Weaveword. It simply relies in the same idea when it comes to the magic the characters wield. It doesn’t happen in the blink of an eye and it’s rather explained and compared with weaving. But let me start this differently, perhaps from the beginning.
The Shadow Worlds are vanishing. A dark storm cloud is falling onto them and leaving nothing in its wake. The Shadow Worlds – parallel worlds identical to our Earth – were once numerous, with the farthest World being the home of the Weavers. People that learned how to manipulate and weave the energies and create Spells, Ritual etc. Through their magic, they could also manipulate the “walls,” for lack of better word, between the worlds and travel through and into the different Shadows of the Core World (our Earth). But now the dark storms are moving and every couple of hundred years they are swallowing another world. The numbers are falling and eventually there won’t be any place for the Weavers to be, but the Core World itself.
Through the thousands of years, the Weavers move from world to world they started helping their hosts and making their life better using their magic. They never lost a war and their greatest ritual was that of Binding a Revenant. A Revenant is the Weavers greatest warrior, for they are dead people whose part of their soul was brought back and bound to their body and the Weaver’s will by magic, making said body stronger, faster, and simply more that it once was, while they obey completely to their Master’s will, as long as their master lives, but they go mindless “zombies” the moment their master dies and are therefore extinguished.
All except one, the best warrior of them all, the Abomination, the only one to live after his Master’s death and retain his awareness and his soul.
I am hooked with this new series. I am sold completely, I’m a slave to this author’s work, and I literally cannot wait till the next book comes. I loved it, adored it, and couldn’t believe it when it was over how fast I consumed this book. The backbone of the story is incredibly solid, it’s such a strong work and it can host so many installments, it makes a perfect ground for many, many books to come.
The beginning is somewhat slow, with a steady pace; slowly introducing you to the lore and the basics of the story, while in the meantime introduces you to our protagonists. Through flashbacks, we get to know Jaime, the Revenant, who he was and what his life was like before he died, his new life as a Revenant and ultimately what his purpose is. We also get to know Brandon, a young weaver, somewhat naïve whose life changes in a matter of days when he discovers that everything he knew as facts had been carefully hidden lies, and that his people and mostly his father have been abusing and corrupting their spells and powers.
In a beautiful web of intrigue, romance, betrayals, use, and abuse, and the sparks of lust and undeniable attraction, this story grips you and takes you down in its magical core, letting you only to resurface when it’s over. Even then your brain refuses to let go, eagerly anticipating the follow-up installment that ironically is called The Beginning, because even if this is the first book of the series, it’s only the introduction for what I suspect to be a great Saga.
What more can I say, I loved it and I recommend it wholeheartedly to all fantasy/alternate world fans, for it is an exquisite read.