Holy smoke! I wasn’t expecting to get an early access of one of my anticipated reads this year. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my known. And they’re about to wake up.Ī big thanks to Titan Books for the digital galley of this book thru Netgalley. Bigger, older powers slumber beneath the surface of her world. Thrust into a battle between the gods of the Old World and the New, Hessa realizes there is far more on the line than securing a life beyond her own death. Soon Hessa’s trust in her goddess weakens with every unheeded prayer. But her journey reveals a harrowing truth: the gods are dying and the High Halls of the afterlife are fading. As clans from the north and legionaries from the south tear through her homeland, slaughtering everyone in their path, Hessa strives to win back her goddess’ favour.īeset by zealot soldiers, deceitful gods, and newly-awakened demons at every turn, Hessa burns her path towards redemption and revenge. Grieving and alone, Hessa – the last Eangi – must find the traveller, atone for her weakness and secure her place with her loved ones in the High Halls. While she is gone, raiders raze her village and obliterate the Eangi priesthood. Banished for disobeying her goddess’s command to murder a traveller, she prays for forgiveness alone on a mountainside.

Hessa is an Eangi: a warrior priestess of the Goddess of War, with the power to turn an enemy’s bones to dust with a scream. Publishing Date: January 19th, 2021 by Titan BooksĪn epic fantasy featuring warrior priestesses and fickle gods at war.

Hall of Smoke by H.M. Long