About

Reaper is the 10th book in the Cradle series written by Will Wight.

Reaper book cover

Blurb

Sacred Valley has been saved…at least, what’s left of it.

With his home finally secure, Lindon delves deep into the ancient labyrinth, seeking long-lost Soulsmithing knowledge and the secret to destroying the Dreadgods. Monarchs plot against him and against each other, unaware of the threats gathering in realms beyond.

Far above Lindon and the Monarchs and the Dreadgods, another war is waged. Suriel and the Abidan clash against the Mad King and his forces in a battle for the fate of many worlds.

And if it is lost, Cradle will be destroyed.

Review

As usual, I cleared my schedule to read the latest Cradle book on the day of the release. Having known the book to be between Wintersteel and Blackflame in terms of word count, I even set an alarm to wake up early to finish the book within a day.

I enjoyed the book, but not sure how high I'd place this wrt rest of the series. I'll need a full re-read to appreciate this book better — a highly debated fan theory was put to rest and I'm not finding it easy to adjust my mental model of the events and characters.

I liked that the pacing was less frantic compared to Bloodline but it was still difficult to put the book down past the 30% mark. And it was so good to see many of the side character interactions, even if it was brief and some were conspicuously absent. Bloopers were awesome as usual.

The plot for the next two books seems more straightforward now, but I wouldn't put it past Will to throw us more surprises.

My rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

What others are saying

From TS Chan's review on goodreads:

Reaper was one heck of an insane and unputdownable read. The revelations, the implications! And the payoff at the end of this book literally brought me to tears.

From Bronson Kerr's review on goodreads:

Reaper is the start of the Cradle Endgame. For the first time we get full answers about many of the mysteries and they were absolutely worth waiting for. You finally truly start to see the scale of the stakes and the abidan and the cradle storylines feel connected for the first time in the series.

Bingo

/r/Fantasy/ 2021 bingo categories:

  • Set in Asia
  • Found Family
  • Comfort Read (HM)
  • Published in 2021
  • Self-Published