Review: The Ever Fiend (Talon Stormbringer Series) by Randy Ellefson
★★★★½ 
Talon Stormbringer is many things – a thief, a rogue, a legend. Is he a fool too?
Tasked with finding the land of Everway by the very same wizard he tried to steal from in the first place, Talon must join forces with a band of misfits in order to find the legendary silver elixir for his new employer-by-force. The powerful artefact is only known from stories told to children to get them to sleep at night… then again, so is Everway, so who can tell what’s fact and fiction?
For Talon’s sake, one can only hope that tales […]
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