DON’T BUY THIS BOOK… BUY THE WHOLE SERIES.

Larry Correia has written a lot of great books. What he has done with Heart of the Mountain is wrap up a series of books, closing out an Epic Fantasy series with a huge cast of characters and multiple plot lines.

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His series features an array of characters, including heroes, villains, scoundrels, ronin-like wanderers, wizards, and monsters. Every character has their own motivations, and often when you think you understand a character they turn over a new leaf. Villains have redemption arcs andheroes have falls from grace.

Ashok Vadal strides through it all, a monster, a hero, in a Vedic-style epic, an evolution from a broken and in many ways mentally crippled man into a hero of legend. He is one part man, one part paladin, one part mystically/cybernetically enhanced super soldier, and all badass. Ashok is a looming Darth Vader, if Vader cut down stormtroopers instead of rebels.

Heart of the Mountain does what it says on the tin, it concludes a fantastic series in an epic ending. This isn’t a Disney ending, either, fighting requires sacrifice, some people champion what is good and right, others sink to their lowest level, and still others surprisingly rise to the occasion.

Don’t read this book because talking heads say it is unique or award winning, read it because it is fun, it is engaging, and because Larry manages to slip in interesting things about human nature, about ambition, power, and the lies people tell themselves sometimes to avoid facing hard truths.

Larry slips in fascinating sci-fi elements, prophesy, messiahs, gods, demons, and more, letting things unfold in fashions that leave enough to be understood while still keeping some mysteries to consider.

It takes an incredible storyteller to write a story of this scope, a detailed mind to bring all the plots to conclusion, and a deep understanding of human nature to do it all in a way that feels natural.

Bravo, Larry, you magnificent bastard, bravo!