In The Oathsworn Legacy, creator Okay.R. Gangi delivers sword and sorcery fantasy with a Lovecraftian twist. The construction of The Oathsworn Legacy recollects that of the superb Hanuvar Trilogy by Howard Andrew Jones, the place every chapter acts as a standalone quick story. The person tales then come collectively to create a complete higher than the sum of its components.

Okay.R. Gangi’s worldbuilding embraces customary Tolkienesque parts, together with elven and dwarven races, wizards, and so forth. His writing is extra casual in comparison with that of both Tolkien or Jones. The primary half of The Oathsworn Legacy looks like customary fare sword and sorcery, with a “monster of the week” aptitude that belies the depth that’s slowly being developed.

Gangi ranges up someplace mid-novel, elevating the second half of the guide to a top quality on par with the very best of Howard Andrew Jones. Gangi additionally adopts a extra Lovecraftian air on this latter a part of the guide, which works particularly properly when mixed with a change from third-person to first-person narration. I truthfully wasn’t fairly ready for the extent of emotional depth that emerges within the second half of the novel. General, The Oathsworn Legacy is very beneficial for followers of darkish epic fantasy and sword and sorcery.