Our protagonist, Tau Tafari, starts out life as a 'Lesser' in the Omehi's oppressive, stratified caste system. In this case, he's writing a very straightforward male power fantasy. It's an Afro-themed epic fantasy story of a very particular type: unoriginal, checks off a long list of tropes, yet really satisfying for a certain kind of reader, as the author knows what kind of story he's telling and he tells it well. The Rage of Dragons is another epic fantasy that started out indie-published but acquired such a following that it was picked up by Orbit. That's a pretty good description of this book.

Every time I listen in, it's some dudes fighting.' My wife, listening to music, would occasionally take her earbuds out, and at one point she commented: 'There sure is an awful lot of fighting in this book. I was listening to this as an audiobook on a long car ride. The Rage of Dragons launches an unmissable epic fantasy series about a world caught in an endless war and the young man who will become his people's only hope for survival.

Following an unthinkable path, he will strive to become the greatest swordsman to ever live, willing to die a hundred thousand times for the chance to kill three of his own people. With too few gifted left the Omehi are facing genocide, but Tau cares only for revenge. Tau Tafari wants more than this, but his plans of escape are destroyed when those closest to him are brutally murdered. The lucky ones are born gifted: some have the power to call down dragons, others can be magically transformed into bigger, stronger, faster killing machines.Įveryone else is fodder, destined to fight and die in the endless war. The Omehi people have been fighting an unwinnable war for generations.

The rage of dragons by evan winter