Reddit mentions of Six Sacred Swords (Weapons and Wielders Book 1)

Hey all!

Six Sacred Swords is my latest novel release, and it's currently on sale for 0.99 on the US and UK Kindle stores to celebrate the launch of the audio edition of the book.

For those of you interested in the audio version, you can find it here.

The novel focuses on the adventures of Keras Selyrian, a powerful swordsman who begins a quest searching for the legendary Six Sacred Swords. Stylistically, it's tremendously inspired by Japanese games like Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, Ys, and especially The Legend of Zelda. It's also very light, comedic, and optimistic in tone, with a protagonist that leans toward non-lethal combat resolution when possible.

Six Sacred Swords is a spin-off/prequel of my Arcane Ascension series, the first book of which is Sufficiently Advanced Magic. It also serves to connect the Arcane Ascension books with my War of Broken Mirrors books, and has some characters and elements from those as well. You don't need to read any other books to understand this one, but you might understand a few additional references if you do (similar to how Sanderson's cosmere books work, or Marvel Cinematic Universe movies, etc.)

Compared to my other books, this one focuses more on dungeon crawling and adventure. I mentioned The Legend of Zelda as the strongest influence because there's less political stuff here than I usually write, and more of a focus on just traveling around and dealing with strange new places and creatures (whereas my other books probably lean more toward the Final Fantasy side of things).

I hope that people enjoy the book if they decide to check it out!

I've bought a fair amount of ebooks on Amazon recently and I think most of them are books that a lot of people here would enjoy (heck I heard about most of them through here!).

The Preorders:

Underlord - The sixth book in the Cradle series which is described as a Western Xianxia series. A lot of people here don't really like the Xianxia genre and I agree with their criticisms of how many main characters are very villainous, under-developed enemies and female characters, the economies of cultivation aren't logical, poor scaling in conflict as you go from one city to interstellar in scope, and awkward prose. But I bring up all of these flaws to say that the Cradle series completely avoids all of the typical flaws in Xianxia and has a very smart character who sets out to cultivate smartly instead of bullheadedly.

And the sixth book is coming out in March! (Get the box set. It has the first three books and is cheaper!)

Exhalation - Who here hasn't heard of Ted Chiang, the master of short stories that perfectly appeal to the r/rational crowd? The same guy that we literally use as an introduction to rational fiction. Well, if you enjoyed his first collection, Stories of Your Life and Others, you'll love hearing that the second collection is coming out in....May! (Ugh....really May? I don't think I can wait that long!)

The books you can read right now!:

The Beginner's Guide to Magical Licensing - Has a similar start to Unsong where a magical college-graduate, minimum-wage, sweat-shop worker stumbles on a powerful spell and sets out to start his own business competing with the powerful. The parts of the story that follows afterward makes a whole lot more logical sense than Unsong however. (Used to be online for free, but now you'll have to pay the price for your ignorance if you want to read it! (Nah, I lied.))

Six Sacred Swords - If you liked the Arcane Ascension series, but wished there was more dungeonnering and less of school shenanigans, then look no further! In some ways it's a lot like reading a very good DnD session played by really savvy players who never follow the 'standard' way to solve problems.

The author of Six Sacred Swords made a recommendation for The Ruin of Kings. He said that it reads like a Locke Lamora-esque rogue protagonist, telling the story in a style similar to Kvothe, in a setting similar to Game of Thrones. I haven't bought the book yet, but the review was interesting enough that I wanted to include it in my list of recommendations.

Senlin Ascends - I haven't read this yet either, but skimming through it, I see some fair bit of social manipulation/combat that I think people here would like. Plus the Tower of Babel setting is something that appeals very strongly to me.

Polyglot: NPC REVOLUTION - A lot of people here seem to really like LitRPG and Artificial Intelligence, but almost no one seem to ever question the implications of the NPCs in LitRPG stories having human-level intelligence.

Small Medium: Big Trouble - It's by the same author who wrote Threadbare that people here really liked. Similar to Polygot where the NPC is the main character who needs to deal with players, but smaller scale in scope. There's a lot of fast-talking to convince selfish sociopaths to do what you say.

Q is for Quantum - I was going through my older ebook orders when I found this one. It's the single best introduction for quantum mechanics that I have ever read (not that I've read too many of those). It focuses on building an intuition for the subject and once you've read through the book, you will understand on a gut level what superposition means. Note that it's meant as an introduction for the subject, so don't expect it to cover everything, just what's need to get started learning about quantum mechanics. But I'd still recommend it to experts if only for a better way to explain their subject to their peers and laypeople.

It's Andrew Rowe! I just bought your new book! Haven't gotten around to leaving an Amazon review yet though. Enjoying it so far!

Edit: The book is Six Sacred Swords. If you've read Sufficiently Advanced Magic, you've already been introduced to the protagonist: Keras Selyrian (The mask-wearing Swordsman Corin meets towards the beginning of the first book).

Edit Edit: I am not Andrew Rowe, Salaris, who I replied to, is Andrew Rowe.

I would definitely suggest reading the following from the same author:

• War of Broken Mirrors Book 1 - Forging Divinity (Goodreads | Amazon/Audible)
  
• War of Broken Mirrors Book 2 - Stealing Sorcery (Goodreads | Amazon/Audible)
  
  Both of these deal with some of the things going on in the world as a whole. They also introduce characters important to the story in Weapons and Wielders Book 1 - Six Sacred Swords (Goodreads | Amazon/Audible) which is the follow-up series to Arcane Ascension.
  
  Book three of War of Broken Mirrors is slated to come out soon, according to the Author, he's aiming for a September release.

Nice!

The " Add Audible book to your purchase for just $8.89 " option also adds up to less of the cost of the average credit for people wanting the audibook.