The House of Always

ByJenn Lyons

Release Date: 2021-05-11
Genre: Epic Fantasy

Score: 4.5

4.5

From 75 Ratings

Description

For fans of Brandon Sanderson and Patrick Rothfuss, The House of Always is the fourth epic fantasy in Jenn Lyons' Chorus of Dragons series that began with The Ruin of Kings.

What if you were imprisoned for all eternity?

In the aftermath of the Ritual of Night, everything has changed.

The Eight Immortals have catastrophically failed to stop Kihrin's enemies, who are moving forward with their plans to free Vol Karoth, the King of Demons. Kihrin has his own ideas about how to fight back, but even if he's willing to sacrifice everything for victory, the cost may prove too high for his allies.

Now they face a choice: can they save the world while saving Kihrin, too? Or will they be forced to watch as he becomes the very evil they have all sworn to destroy.

At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Reviews

My god
1
By YouTube iOS is trash
No clue what happened between the other books in the series and this one, but talk about falling off a cliff.

Written with absolutely abysmal and incessant tawdry smut that wouldn’t interest even the most bored suburbanite, the novel waffles between the worst soap opera and a 12 year old experiencing puberty.

The dialogue itself descends into a 3rd grader discovering his first curse words and trying them in every single possible situation, rendering it meaningless. The attempt at writing witty, fast-paced dialogue falls so short of the mark the attempt itself induces guilt and pity in the reader for the author.

Pedantically and condescendingly explaining sexuality and gender roles while readily bullying the characters in question into submission of those ideals speaks to the hilarious obliviousness of the writer and her understanding of what those roles represent. No one in this book is free to choose to understand those concepts, rather they’re steamrolled into them.

Even all that aside the worst part of this book is how irrelevant it makes itself. Read the first 5 chapters. Skip the next 50. You’ll have missed absolutely nothing.

Truly the epitome of dross. While somehow managing to also be offensive to the reader and undermine its own purpose, the book shines as an example of how rare a good series of novels are.
Not worth it
1
By GSU17
If you have hung in here for this long, then you are obviously invested. I am urging you not to read this book and leave this story alone. It’s obvious that this story should’ve been a trilogy. Trying to choke down this book is extremely painful. I have never read a more pointless narrative in my life. TERRIBLE!
Worth the work
5
By jkjones222
Admittedly, it took me awhile to get in synch with the complicated storytelling device, but once I caught on, I could not put it down. Love the characters and anxiously looking forward to the next book.