The Rage of Dragons

Evan Winter

Jul 2019 · The Burning Book 1 · Hachette Audio · Narrated by Prentice Onayemi

About this audiobook

Game of Thrones meets Gladiator in this blockbuster debut epic fantasy about a world caught in an eternal war, and the young man who will become his people's only hope for survival.

Winner of the Reddit/Fantasy Award for Best Debut Fantasy Novel

The Omehi people have been fighting an unwinnable war for almost two hundred years. The lucky ones are born gifted. One in every two thousand women has the power to call down dragons. One in every hundred men is able to magically transform himself into a bigger, stronger, faster killing machine.

Everyone else is fodder, destined to fight and die in the endless war.

Young, gift-less Tau knows all this, but he has a plan of escape. He's going to get himself injured, get out early, and settle down to marriage, children, and land. Only, he doesn't get the chance.

Those closest to him are brutally murdered, and his grief swiftly turns to anger. Fixated on revenge, Tau dedicates himself to an unthinkable path. He'll become the greatest swordsman to ever live, a man willing to die a hundred thousand times for the chance to kill the three who betrayed him.

The Rage of Dragons launches a stunning and powerful debut epic fantasy series that readers are already calling "the best fantasy book in years."

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Ratings and reviews

Didn't love it. but it's not the books fault. I recently listened to "the stormlight archive" and the red rising trilogy so I'm a little tired of the "upperclassmen are dicks" storyline. Also I the narrator gets annoying. He puts the same inflections in every sentence regardless of what is happening in the story. I won't be listening to the sequels if it's the same narrator.

Love this book. I'm a huge fan of epic fantasy books, so there are a lot of repeated plots in most books. This book from a new author was absolutely refreshing. The narrator was also a perfect pick.

Absolutely fantastic. Fantastic plot, fantastic characters development, fantastic world building. As someone who prefers physical books, the narrator was so good that I actually put the book down and let him tell me the story. READ THIS.

About the author

Born in England to South American parents, Evan Winter was raised in Africa near the historical territory of his Xhosa ancestors. Evan has always loved fantasy novels, but when his son was born, he realized that there weren't many epic fantasy novels featuring characters who looked like him. So, before he ran out of time, he started writing them.