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Mantles of Oak and Iron

Turrim Archive, Book 2

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By: Jenelle Leanne Schmidt
Narrated by: Benjamin Fife
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Grayden thought he had four years to decide his future… he was wrong.

War is imminent. The Igyeum has already begun incursions across Telmondir’s borders. The headmaster of the military academy issues a new directive: all students will be fast-tracked through the program. They will be full-fledged defenders by the end of the year. But when a training exercise turns deadly, Grayden must keep his head and become the leader his friends need.

Captain Marik has witnessed evil beyond imagining. Enough to make him sign on to the wizard Dalmir’s cause. But will the council of the west accept a pirate among their ranks? And will Marik’s crew join this mission, or will they consider him a traitor to all they once stood for?

Meanwhile, deep in the mountains lurks a hidden danger that threatens them all.

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While the first book is a great introduction to the worlds and characters, this book really starts to show more of how the world functions and interacts with itself from the busy life of academy students to how things work at the top of the government.
This book gave plenty of time for the characters to breathe and let me get more attached to the ones from the first book and even to new characters.
With this book I was mostly playing Hollow Knight: Silksong (or as much of playing it as you can consider when I'm just attempting to fight the final FINAL boss over and over again. I'll get it eventually even if it takes 2000 tries) and while I was drawing in between breaks.
Benjamin Fife's performance once again is lovely! There are moments I remember thinking to myself that he should voice act for something, moments where you could tell the character was laughing just from their voice without the actual laughter present and a few parts where a character was injured or out of breath that really felt like I was hearing someone that had actually fallen in a frozen river! (Benjamin... didn't actually throw himself in the river... right?)
Anyway bit more spoiler warning for the next part, not too detailed but I like to give one anyway.
I had a bit of a 'well there's only this much left of the book not too much can happen in that time!' and then a brick was thrown at my face, and then another and uhh more like a wall's worth of bricks,
The whole book you have a looming knowledge that war is coming, everyone is preparing for it and making big decisions that effect everyone. But everyone is still going about their lives and trying their best to deal with it.
By the time the war happens you feel the harm it has on every part of this world.
Jenelle does a wonderful job writing characters that feel real and complex, you get to know them so well it's like you've made a friend. Which makes it hurt all the more when something bad happens to them.
Also you get to see Captain Marik and his crew work together as a team with precision and accuracy and it's super cool.

Adventure with understanding of War

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Definitely recommend! This is Book 2 of The Turrim Archive, so you’ll want to start with The Orb and The Airship (Book 1)—get ready for quite the adventure, the chess-board drama, characters you will love… Okay, I’m going to start Book 3 now.

Soooo good!

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Continuing on the heels of The Orb and The Airship (which contained a good amount of world building and character introductions), this second book begins the freefall of turbulent and chaotic actions by all players involved in securing the region, whether it be for benevolent or nefarious purposes. There are soldiers training for combat. Wizards practicing magic. Spies, likely on both sides, infiltrating opposing camps looking for advantages. Murder. Mayhem. And mysteries yet to be explained. The stories (both books, so far) are very character centered while providing detailed and tactile descriptions of the landscapes where we find them. Benjamin Fife brings each line of text to life with nuanced and charismatic voices spanning generations and genders, while also tugging at our emotions where appropriate. Start (or continue) your fantastic journey through the Turrim Archive and experience its countless wonders. [Disclosure: I received this title for free and listened at 2.1x.]

Myriad characters quickly approaching intersection

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Mantles of Oak and Iron is the second book in the five part Turrim Archives.

While the first book did have a large cast it did eventually bring everyone together.

This book splits the party.

Personally I was more invested in Grayden and the other academy students than the more political plotline of the other characters. Though, I enjoyed all of Delmar's lore drops.

The narrator is one I keep coming back to. Benjamin Fife has an excellent talent for voices. No two Characters sound quite the same.

Part two of five: read in order

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