Rise of the Ranger

The cover alone made me purchase this book. Well, I mean, I also did check out some of the reviews it was getting, but that cover was what sold me. While the cover is awesome, it's the contents within the book that is even better!

Rise of the Ranger is the first book (in a series of nine) in The Echoes Saga by Philip C. Quaintrell. This is an indie and self-published author and frankly, I'm surprised no major publishing company has picked this up yet. This book is basically a love letter to the fantasy genre. It combines classic and modern fantasy and has a little of everything.

The story follows a large cast and I can honestly say, there wasn't one character or story that I didn't like. In fact, I enjoyed all of the characters. It may seem a little bit of a stretch for some characters to instantly like each other but considering how I pretty much love everything about this book, I'm willing to forgive that.

While reading this, I told myself that when I finished I was going to start reading something else. However, I enjoyed it so much, I decided to go ahead and immediately jump into the next one to finish the first trilogy.

I can only hope that someday we will get nice leather-bound special editions of this series. I'd immediately snatch those up!