This is your gift to the world: ship after ship of pain, sailing the seas to sate your people’s lust and cruelty and your thirst to conquer everything.

Maybe the Goddess of Death would laugh when I told her all about it in the Afterlife. I figured it had been a short, weird life.“No, but if you want to keep stealing them back, we could work something out.” “And how do you finance an operation like this? Good intentions? Or do you have a couple dozen more star tear diamonds back home?”.I fought the urge to ask if she preferred rib or thigh meat on her roasted children. I couldn’t tell if she’d been ugly or beautiful in her youth: she was so wrinkled that any such speculation was impossible. Her quicksilver eyes – with no irises or visible whites – reminded me of the eyes of a demon. Her fine hair, pale and powdery, showed the old woman’s spotted scalp. Bone-white skin stretched thin and translucent over her face. If her son Teraeth was the color of ink, she was the parchment upon which it had been spilled. Khaemezra was so bent and shrunken from age she stood no taller than a Quuros woman.“How many times do I have to tell you? It’s Faris!” “Touch me, Ferret, and you’ll lose your other hand, too,” Rook said.Sometimes he was tempted to give the kid a break, but Butterbelly always got over the impulse.When they brought me up to the auction block, I looked out over the crowd and thought: I would kill you all if I had a knife.“The Ruin of Kings revs up with the glitz of a high-speed, multi-level video game, with extreme magic and a teen hero with angst.” ― Janny Wurts, author of The Curse of the Mistwraith I loved it.”― John Gwynne, author of Malice “A thriller plot of revenge and loyalty with a get-under-your-skin and keep-you-reading-all-night mysetery at its heart. Modesitt, Jr., author of the Recluse series “The Ruin of Kings is a fascinating story about a compellingly conflicted young hero in an intriguingly complex world.” ― L. I gobbled it up and was hungry for more.” ― Glen Cook, author of The Black Company I loved it.” ― Lev Grossman, author of The Magicians “Rich, cruel, gorgeous, brilliant, enthralling and deeply, deeply satisfying. Epic fantasy fans looking for a virtually un-put-down-able read should look no further.” ― Kirkus, starred review Lyons ties it all together seamlessly to create literary magic. “ jaw-dropping, action-packed story of betrayal, greed, and grand-scale conspiracy. AMAZON | BARNES & NOBLE | BOOK DEPOSITORY

The ruin of kings