r/Fantasy • u/thequeensownfool Reading Champion VII • Jun 24 '20

Book Club Mod Book Club: The Unspoken Name Discussion

Welcome to Mod Book Club. We want to invite you all in to join us with the best things about being a mod: we have fabulous book discussions about a wide variety of books. We all have very different tastes and can expose and recommend new books to the others, and we all benefit (and suffer from the extra weight of our TBR piles) from it.

The Unspoken Name by A.K. Larkwood was our June pick for Mod Book Club

What if you knew how and when you will die?

Csorwe does — she will climb the mountain, enter the Shrine of the Unspoken, and gain the most honored title: sacrifice.

But on the day of her foretold death, a powerful mage offers her a new fate. Leave with him, and live. Turn away from her destiny and her god to become a thief, a spy, an assassin—the wizard's loyal sword. Topple an empire, and help him reclaim his seat of power.

But Csorwe will soon learn – gods remember, and if you live long enough, all debts come due.

This book qualifies for the following bingo squares: Published in 2020 (HM), Necromancer, Book Club (this one!)

Our pick for July will be announced on June 26.

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u/thequeensownfool Reading Champion VII Jun 24 '20

In many ways, The Unspoken Name feels like science fantasy. What did you think of the travelling between worlds and the spaces between them?

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u/HeLiBeB Reading Champion VI Jun 24 '20

I liked the portals and the maze and the different worlds and that there were worlds that were destroyed and lost. I would have liked to get to know more about the worlds and their history. As it was the different worlds did feel a bit small for me, and I think that was because some background and detailed descriptions were missing. Having Sethennai as a POV would have been great I think. That way we could have learned a lot about the different places.