A Review - Cold Iron - Miles Cameron


I loved this book.

It's everything I want from a coming of age epic fantasy story, and Cameron proves a world can be build without a book being 800 pages.

This was an exciting read that was comfortably familiar without feeling like a rehash of another authors work.

If you like authors like John Gwynne and Ryan Cahill then you'll like this.

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