Review: The Bulls of War (Chronicles of the Andervold Thrones Book 1) by E.M. Thomas
★★★★½ 
The Bulls of War, the first installment of E.M. Thomas’s sword-wielding epic Chronicles of the Andervold Thrones, follows friends Tyghus and Kyrus The Younger, as they find themselves falling onto the bloody blade of a war of empires and emotions. Vast in its conception, saga-like in its imagining, the dramatic realization of the battle will pull readers into its dense, murderous clutches as the two leaders must face a feat of endurance to test even the strongest of men.
While the genre of epic historical fiction serves somewhat to describe author Thomas’s writing, the description of this book as […]
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