Crowfall, Ed McDonald
Crowfall, Ed McDonald
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Crowfall

Author: Ed McDonald

Narrator: Colin Mace

Unabridged: 15 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 07/02/2019


Synopsis

In the third gritty installment of the Raven's Mark series, Blackwing Captain Ryhalt Galharrow finds that all power comes with a price...

A sorcerous cataclysm has hit the Range, the final defensive line between the republic and the immortal Deep Kings.

Tormenting red rains sweep the land, new monstrosities feed on fear in the darkness, and the power of the Nameless, the gods who protect the republic, lies broken. The Blackwing captains who serve them are being picked off one by one, and even immortals have learned what it means to die. Meanwhile, the Deep Kings have only grown stronger, and they are poised to deliver a blow that will finally end the war.

Ryhalt Galharrow stands apart from it all.

He has been deeper into the wasteland known as the Misery than ever before. It has grown within him--changed him--and now the ghosts of his past, formerly confined to the Misery, walk with him everywhere.

They will even follow him--and the few surviving Blackwing captains--on one final mission into the darkness.

About Ed McDonald

Ed McDonald is the author of the Raven’s Mark and Redwinter Chronicles series of novels. He studied Ancient History and Archaeology at the University of Birmingham, and Medieval History at Birkbeck College, University of London. Ed is passionate about fantasy tabletop role-play games and has studied medieval swordsmanship since 2013. He currently lives with his partner, author Catriona Ward, in London, England.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sean Barrs on May 05, 2020

Crowfall provides a spectacularly epic conclusion to a trilogy that has the potential haunt your nightmares in its creepiness; it’s so dark, so bleak and so wonderfully written. Everything is brought together here perfectly, a very clever ending indeed! And I must admit, I’m pleasantly surprised. Go......more

Goodreads review by James on May 28, 2019

"Another Heart of the Void? The sky is shattered, the rain sends men mad. Even the geese are trying to eat us. What the fuck do we have to gain by unleashing that kind of power again?" I received an advanced reading copy of Crowfall in exchange for an honest review. I would like to thank Ed McDonald......more

Goodreads review by Lena on September 05, 2024

Great finale to a very good series. Although some plotlines were predictable, I liked the bitter-sweet ending and author finally reviled some mysteries behind worldbuilding and the lore. In general, intriguing, original, action driven story that doesn't lack deep psychological and philosophical meani......more

Goodreads review by Allen on August 27, 2023

Great conclusion to, what I feel is, an underrated series. What I think McDonald does best here in this cosmic horror, noir, military fantasy is how much of the world is left unexplained, so much to where I weep that there are no other novels in this world. I want to see more Nameless! More Deep Kin......more

Goodreads review by Peter on April 05, 2019

They say that misery loves company, and in the Misery you're never alone. Especially If you're Backwing Captain Ryhalt Galharrow, haunted by the bitter ghosts of the past. This book is raw and emotional in a way I didn't expect. It's a very different book to its predecessors, yet is still an almost i......more


Quotes

Praise for Crowfall

“This series has been truly magnificent from start to finish, and I am grateful for it.”— Peter McClean, author of Priest of Bones

Praise for Ravencry
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 "Gripping fantastical drama…McDonald continues to build on the strengths that made Blackwing compelling: tense and violent action, genuinely disturbing settings and creatures, and bursts of morbid humor."—Publishers Weekly
 
“In Ravencry, McDonald has crafted a desolate world brimming with creativity and dark fantasy that tests the boundaries of faith and belief.”—Fantasy Book Review
 
“To say that Ravencry is a triumph would be to do it an injustice… Ed McDonald can't help but have you fall in love with the characters and get emotionally invested, only to see them tested in the most violent and torturous of ways.”—Out Of This World
 
Praise for Blackwing:
 
"Ed McDonald handles the action with a deft hand and has created a compelling central character who remains likeable despite a lengthy list of flaws. A remarkably assured fantasy debut that mixes the inventiveness of China Miéville with the fast-paced heroics of David Gemmell."--Anthony Ryan, New York Times bestselling author of The Empire of Ashes
 
"Original world-building and unforgettable characters make Blackwing a dark, powerful debut."--Brian Staveley, author of Skullsworn
 
"Blackwing is a bloody, gritty fantasy novel that manages not to sacrifice its heart.  I love the world, which feels strange and lived-in, and the strength of the voice is fantastic.  Fans of Glen Cook's The Black Company or Joe Abercrombie's The First Law series will be very happy with this one."--Django Wexler, author of The Infernal Battalion