The House of Always
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4.3 • 68 Ratings
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Publisher 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.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Explorations of the imprisoned mind of demon king Vol Karoth make for an abstract fourth entry in Lyons's A Chorus of Dragons epic fantasy series (following The Memory of Souls). The wizard Senera Var gathers a group of unlikely allies at a lighthouse frozen in time to help hero Kihrin D'Mon defeat the weakened Vol Karoth. Meanwhile, Kihrin enters the desolate realm of Vol Karoth's mind to confront him in a debate over the worth of humanity. Kihrin and Vol Karoth take turns summoning memories of Kihrin's friends as evidence for their conflicting stances on human goodness. The assembled allies in the lighthouse also experience these memories, leading them and the reader to learn of the past adventures of side characters Galen D'Mon, Qown, Talea Ferandis, and others. The complex yet repetitive narrative structure will overwhelm most readers, and the philosophical nature of Kihrin's quest is thought-provoking but too heady to carry the plot. Fans will hope this experimental outing is only a wobble before the series finds its footing ahead of its conclusion.
Customer Reviews
Worth the work
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.
Not even close to the other books
This book is meandering and filled with cringy characters that have no depth compared to the previous books. The three main characters can’t even move the story forward because they always have to hold hands or brush the hair out of one another’s faces even whilst facing mortal danger. It truly doesn’t even seem like the same author wrote this book. I tried and tried to get through it, but I had to stop about halfway through because it’s just that bad.
My god
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.