Title: Rust and Ruin
Series: The VoidShatter Series.
Book Number: 02.
Genre: Humorous Epic Fantasy, with flecks of dark satire.
Suggested Age: 12+
Themes: Friendship, Bureaucracy, Ancient Mysteries, Guilds, Absurdity, Meddling Deities, Escalating Consequences, Time Travel.
Tone: Witty, Adventurous, Optimistic.
Setting: Axalar.
Tropes: Unlikely heroes, ragtag adventuring party, found family, ancient evil awakening, bureaucratic fantasy, escalating consequences.
Comparable Books:
The Shadow of What Was Lost
Orconomics
Blurb: Our companions are not heroes.
So being flung back to the Age of Heroes by the God of Time is rather inconvenient--fortunately, they don't know it yet. Once they have established the when, they need to figure out the why.
Separated across history's biggest moments, our companions find themselves experiencing Axalar's legends first-hand. It quickly becomes apparent that the only thing more grandiose than the egos and the dragons is just how much the bards embellish the legends of old.
Synopsis: Rust and Ruin is the second novel in The Voidshatter Series, a humorous epic fantasy set during the First-Age of Axalar. The story continues where book 1 left off, with our companions flung back to the legendary Age of Heroes. They must find each other and navigate their way back to their own time. In doing so, they have to navigate history's defining moments while uncovering the truth of legends long forgotten. Packed with callbacks to many of the footnotes in Ashes and Embers.