Book review of Bloodsworn by Tej Turner (opens in new tab)

There's a shape of epic fantasy that a lot of us have grown up on. A sleepy village in the back of beyond, a clutch of young people on the edge of adulthood, a once-a-year ritual that lifts one or two of them out into the wider world, and (somewhere offstage and rumbling closer) a war that the rest of the world hasn't quite finished having. Many of them rested under the shadow of Tolkien's work, of course. You may have read your first version of the genre at a young age, and your fifth by the...