A land of thick jungle and mist-swirled mountains. An enemy moving
unseen beneath the lush canopy. The growing threat of thaumics--a magic
wielded by few that threatens to destabilize all. The youth of a kingdom
sent to fight in a faraway hell while back home, discord and
disillusionment reign...
Fantasy author Chris Evans masterfully pushes the boundaries of the
genre in his brilliant, groundbreaking new epic, a unique and
penetrating vision channeling the cultural upheaval, racial animus, and
wholesale destruction of the Vietnam War. Here, in the distant nation of
Luitox, which is wracked by rebellion, thaumic users copilot mammoth
armored dragons alongside fliers who do not trust their strange methods.
Warriors trained in crossbow, stealth, and catapult are plunged into
sudden chaotic battles with the mysterious Forest Collective, an elusive
enemy with a powerful magic of its own. And the Kingdom's most
downtrodden citizens, only recently granted equality, fight for the
dignity they were supposed to have won at home while questioning who the
real enemy is.
Of Bone and Thunder is the story of Thaum Jawn Rathim, whose idealized
view of the war clashes with its harsh realities and his realization
that victory may cost him everything...of conscripted soldier Carny,
awash in a hallucinogenic haze of fear and anger...of Breeze, the
red-haired graduate from the Royal Academy of Thaumology, certain she
can transform the very nature of warfare--if only she can win the trust
of the man holding her fate in his hands...and of Ugen Listowk, a
veteran crossbowman who finds solace in the darkest shadows of the
jungle and whose greatest fear is failing the men he leads into battle.
Plunging deep into the heart of a moral and mortal darkness, these
reluctant soldiers struggle for survival and for meaning amid a blazing
drama of blood and magic. They will duel a ghostly enemy, fight to
understand their roles in a sprawling maelstrom, and ultimately wage the
war their way--not for glory or the Kingdom, but for one another.
