About

Tales from Ruun is a short story collection set in the The Power Yet Wielded series written by Chad Retterath.

Tales from Ruun book cover

Blurb

Tales from Ruun collects eight stories of titans, mages, and warriors from the world of The Power Yet Wielded. From the sky serpent, Tahk, to the wild cactus, Osirian, these titans exist in the natural world and occasionally wreak havoc on the mortals that are unfortunate enough to cross their paths.

Tales from Ruun collects eight stories that span the three major continents of Ruun: Masaneen, Nuliya, and Gojeer. These stories follow mortals and titans alike through adventures, mysteries, battles, and more.

Review

I came across Tales from Ruun from the author's release post about his latest book. This being a self published book and available on Kindle Unlimited made it easy to check it out. The first was a mystery story about a missing person. The writing and worldbuilding caught my attention, it was easy to follow and the pacing was nice as well.

As I continued reading, it turned out to be a dark setting with plenty of ways for things to go bad. I would've likely dropped it if it was a novel, but the stories being short helped me tolerate the violence and I was enjoying the worldbuilding, magic system and characters. As mentioned in the blurb, the stories were set in different parts of the world and they were all interesting in their own ways. And there were interesting non-human POV characters too.

Overall, I enjoyed this collection despite the dark setting and violence. I'd recommend checking out The Power Yet Wielded series if you like interesting magic system with powerful warrior/mage characters.

My rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟☆

What others are saying

From Genny's review on goodreads:

A well written story that keeps you turning the page, and a quick read that you can knock out in one sitting.

From Stef's review on goodreads:

Very nicely written stories with meat characters. The world this author created is just awesome. I can't wait to read more.

Bingo

/r/Fantasy/ 2021 bingo categories:

  • Five SFF Short Stories (HM)
  • New to You Author (HM)
  • Published in 2021
  • Self-Published (HM)