--- product_id: 44055399 title: "Wrath (The Faithful and the Fallen, 4)" price: "$52.03" currency: USD in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.us/products/44055399-wrath-the-faithful-and-the-fallen-4 store_origin: US region: United States of America --- # Wrath (The Faithful and the Fallen, 4) **Price:** $52.03 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Wrath (The Faithful and the Fallen, 4) - **How much does it cost?** $52.03 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.us](https://www.desertcart.us/products/44055399-wrath-the-faithful-and-the-fallen-4) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description The fourth in the Faithful and the Fallen series from John Gwynne, an epic fantasy perfect for fans of George R. R. Martin, Brandon Sanderson and David Gemmell. Events are coming to a climax in the Banished Lands, as the war reaches new heights. King Nathair has taken control of the fortress at Drassil and three of the Seven Treasures are in his possession. And together with Calidus and his ally Queen Rhin, Nathair will do anything to obtain the remaining Treasures. With all seven under his command, he can open a portal to the Otherworld. Then Asroth and his demon-horde will finally break into the Banished Lands and become flesh. Meanwhile Corban has been taken prisoner by the Jotun, warrior giants who ride their enormous bears into battle. His warband scattered, Corban must make new allies if he hopes to survive. But can he bond with competing factions of warlike giants? Somehow he must, if he's to counter the threat Nathair represents. His life hangs in the balance -- and with it, the fate of the Banished Lands. Review: More like 4.5 stars, but AWESOME book series!! - I grew up a bookworm. No, you don't understand. When I got into trouble as a kid, my parents didn't ground me from friends or TV....They grounded me from books. But unfortunately, college murdered that love of reading by throwing so many atrociously boring books in my face and assigning neverending, 30 paged papers on said boring books. I haven't been able to read a book sense. Not until this series, anyways. Now, "Malice" took me a year to read. Not that it was a bad book--quite the contrary, in fact--but I just couldn't muster the will to read period. In fact, it was only because my students have to read a book for 20 minutes every day in a certain class period that I would pick up "Malice" just to set a good example. Immediately after finishing "Malice," I picked up "Valor" and DEVOURED it in a month. Same for "Ruin." Because of the craziness of teaching in COVID-19, it took about two months to read "Wrath," and I finished it last night! This was such an intimidatingly large series, but they were so excellent that, at long last, I found my love of reading again!! Bravo, Mr. Gwynne!! The series, overall, is 5 stars, no questions asked. The character growth, the character's journies, the plot twists, the fact that even important characters die (I mean, he did warn us that "Even the brave will fall"), the humorous bits (Craf is just amazing), the superb action sequences, I mean, I can go on--but I have places to be, and I bet you do too. However, there were a few elements in "Wrath" that knocked it down to 4.5 stars for me. ****SPOILERS BELOW*** (This kind of goes for book 3 too, but it just got too much on my nerves in book 4.) I was just so disapointed in the character of Coralen. I LOVED her in her first two chapters, and...that's it. She got on my last nerve from then on. She was so promising! But ultimately she was by far the flattest main character in the series. (No, Dath, Farrell, Gar, Kulla, etc., are side characters. Side characters don't get full characterization, I get that. But Coralen was a main character with her own point of view.) It was like she was just brought in to be a love interest for our guy Corban, and just reduced to arm candy. All her thoughts ever seemed to be was that Corban was an idiot, Corban was handsome and strong, she liked Corban despite the fact that she rolls her eyes at such emotion, Corban is in danger, she has to save Coraban, and Corban is, once again, an idiot. But an honorable idiot and she loves him. And so on. Other character's descriptions of her were even all the same: she was pretty, she was always scowling and hot-headed, her red hair was always in the sun and it looked pretty. All her character's purpose seemed to be was to be your cliche, hot-tempered and pretty ginger, to save Corban when he needed it, and take up the spot of a female warrior who is as strong as any male warrior (and she'll tell you as such). Don't get me wrong, as a woman, I love seeing strong females! Especially women who can kick butt! And what I loved about John Gwynne's female characters was that they were all so strong in their own unique way, without losing their femininity, and they were all so entirely different! They were by no means weak. This man knows how to craft awesome, strong female characters. Cywen, Edana, Brina, Rhin, Fidele, Nemain, Ethlinn, and even Roisin were just joys to read about! And that's why I'm so puzzled that Coralen was just so static and flat--an empty shell for Corban to claim as a simple love interest. He could have done much better by her. If you've been hardcore shipping Veradis and Cywen like I have, you'll be very disappointed in this book. John Gwynne has been such a TEASE with these characters! And finally, when they're on the same side and safe at Corban's camp, they don't even have a conversation. No, correction: they don't even have a conversation in the entire book. Oh, Corban and Coralen can make out and you'll be stuck with mushy, teenage-ish thoughts from both of them. Maquin and Fidele have a whole dramatic love story happening. Cywen and Veradis don't even have a single conversation. They blush, they quietly acknowledge the other's presence and are very glad that they see each other. But that's it. I totally understand that this book series does not have a place in the romance genre--it's about war and the end of the world! I don't want a romance book. But having to deal with Corban/Coralen for so long, and of Maquin and Fidele's obsession with one another (but in their defense, that romance definitely moves the plot along with their storylines), the couple that has been hinted at happening since book 2, the couple that wouldn't have been overly mushy, dramatically obsessive over one another, the couple that would have been so darn COOL (the Dark Sun's loyal, right hand guy having a thing for the Bright Star's sister!), never even got a moment to have a verbal conversation. I kept waiting and waiting and waiting. I got to smile a little at the last few pages, but it was a half smile. So between these two disappointments, I'm giving this terrific book 4.5 stars. These things are minor in the big picture of such a grand series, but they really irked me as a reader. Review: Excellent series! - I thoroughly enjoyed this series by John Gwynne. From the opening page of the first book it had me hooked. Truly one of the best openings of any book I've ever read. Each book in the series built upon the epic story and kept me thoroughly engaged, hungry for the next book. I highly recommend getting the audiobook and the Kindle or paper versions. Both versions added wonderfully to the experience. The narrator for the audiobook does an incredible job wirh giving characters various accents to help keep them all separated in your mind. Many of the names I would never have pronounced correctly without the audiobook. There were many other nuances that the narrator picked up on that would have been lost on me. The Kindle/Paperback versions are needed to sort out who is talking sometimes. There also big time leaps that happen mid-page with a small sapce on the page. The narrator continues on reading from one paragraph to another with barely a pause and if you are on audiobook you'll be scratching your head wondering how the story jumped weeks ahead with no indication of time passing. Also some nicknames would be hard to grasp if not for the Kindle version. Cywen/Cy was a big one for me as the audio pronounces it CO-WEN and CUR and I would have never thought it was the same person with those pronunciations. This series has everything you could want in a medieval fantasy: heroes and villains, angels and demons, friendship, love, loss, betrayal, revenge, trickery, and of course 4 books filled to overflowing with epic combat and warfare. It could be a bit too graphic and bloody for some but it didn't bother me. I highly recommend this entire series. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #14,680 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #34 in Historical Fantasy (Books) #186 in Dark Fantasy #322 in Epic Fantasy (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 9,005 Reviews | ## Images ![Wrath (The Faithful and the Fallen, 4) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81tFX9X9WaL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ More like 4.5 stars, but AWESOME book series!! *by K***S on May 8, 2020* I grew up a bookworm. No, you don't understand. When I got into trouble as a kid, my parents didn't ground me from friends or TV....They grounded me from books. But unfortunately, college murdered that love of reading by throwing so many atrociously boring books in my face and assigning neverending, 30 paged papers on said boring books. I haven't been able to read a book sense. Not until this series, anyways. Now, "Malice" took me a year to read. Not that it was a bad book--quite the contrary, in fact--but I just couldn't muster the will to read period. In fact, it was only because my students have to read a book for 20 minutes every day in a certain class period that I would pick up "Malice" just to set a good example. Immediately after finishing "Malice," I picked up "Valor" and DEVOURED it in a month. Same for "Ruin." Because of the craziness of teaching in COVID-19, it took about two months to read "Wrath," and I finished it last night! This was such an intimidatingly large series, but they were so excellent that, at long last, I found my love of reading again!! Bravo, Mr. Gwynne!! The series, overall, is 5 stars, no questions asked. The character growth, the character's journies, the plot twists, the fact that even important characters die (I mean, he did warn us that "Even the brave will fall"), the humorous bits (Craf is just amazing), the superb action sequences, I mean, I can go on--but I have places to be, and I bet you do too. However, there were a few elements in "Wrath" that knocked it down to 4.5 stars for me. ****SPOILERS BELOW*** (This kind of goes for book 3 too, but it just got too much on my nerves in book 4.) I was just so disapointed in the character of Coralen. I LOVED her in her first two chapters, and...that's it. She got on my last nerve from then on. She was so promising! But ultimately she was by far the flattest main character in the series. (No, Dath, Farrell, Gar, Kulla, etc., are side characters. Side characters don't get full characterization, I get that. But Coralen was a main character with her own point of view.) It was like she was just brought in to be a love interest for our guy Corban, and just reduced to arm candy. All her thoughts ever seemed to be was that Corban was an idiot, Corban was handsome and strong, she liked Corban despite the fact that she rolls her eyes at such emotion, Corban is in danger, she has to save Coraban, and Corban is, once again, an idiot. But an honorable idiot and she loves him. And so on. Other character's descriptions of her were even all the same: she was pretty, she was always scowling and hot-headed, her red hair was always in the sun and it looked pretty. All her character's purpose seemed to be was to be your cliche, hot-tempered and pretty ginger, to save Corban when he needed it, and take up the spot of a female warrior who is as strong as any male warrior (and she'll tell you as such). Don't get me wrong, as a woman, I love seeing strong females! Especially women who can kick butt! And what I loved about John Gwynne's female characters was that they were all so strong in their own unique way, without losing their femininity, and they were all so entirely different! They were by no means weak. This man knows how to craft awesome, strong female characters. Cywen, Edana, Brina, Rhin, Fidele, Nemain, Ethlinn, and even Roisin were just joys to read about! And that's why I'm so puzzled that Coralen was just so static and flat--an empty shell for Corban to claim as a simple love interest. He could have done much better by her. If you've been hardcore shipping Veradis and Cywen like I have, you'll be very disappointed in this book. John Gwynne has been such a TEASE with these characters! And finally, when they're on the same side and safe at Corban's camp, they don't even have a conversation. No, correction: they don't even have a conversation in the entire book. Oh, Corban and Coralen can make out and you'll be stuck with mushy, teenage-ish thoughts from both of them. Maquin and Fidele have a whole dramatic love story happening. Cywen and Veradis don't even have a single conversation. They blush, they quietly acknowledge the other's presence and are very glad that they see each other. But that's it. I totally understand that this book series does not have a place in the romance genre--it's about war and the end of the world! I don't want a romance book. But having to deal with Corban/Coralen for so long, and of Maquin and Fidele's obsession with one another (but in their defense, that romance definitely moves the plot along with their storylines), the couple that has been hinted at happening since book 2, the couple that wouldn't have been overly mushy, dramatically obsessive over one another, the couple that would have been so darn COOL (the Dark Sun's loyal, right hand guy having a thing for the Bright Star's sister!), never even got a moment to have a verbal conversation. I kept waiting and waiting and waiting. I got to smile a little at the last few pages, but it was a half smile. So between these two disappointments, I'm giving this terrific book 4.5 stars. These things are minor in the big picture of such a grand series, but they really irked me as a reader. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent series! *by J***Y on October 6, 2022* I thoroughly enjoyed this series by John Gwynne. From the opening page of the first book it had me hooked. Truly one of the best openings of any book I've ever read. Each book in the series built upon the epic story and kept me thoroughly engaged, hungry for the next book. I highly recommend getting the audiobook and the Kindle or paper versions. Both versions added wonderfully to the experience. The narrator for the audiobook does an incredible job wirh giving characters various accents to help keep them all separated in your mind. Many of the names I would never have pronounced correctly without the audiobook. There were many other nuances that the narrator picked up on that would have been lost on me. The Kindle/Paperback versions are needed to sort out who is talking sometimes. There also big time leaps that happen mid-page with a small sapce on the page. The narrator continues on reading from one paragraph to another with barely a pause and if you are on audiobook you'll be scratching your head wondering how the story jumped weeks ahead with no indication of time passing. Also some nicknames would be hard to grasp if not for the Kindle version. Cywen/Cy was a big one for me as the audio pronounces it CO-WEN and CUR and I would have never thought it was the same person with those pronunciations. This series has everything you could want in a medieval fantasy: heroes and villains, angels and demons, friendship, love, loss, betrayal, revenge, trickery, and of course 4 books filled to overflowing with epic combat and warfare. It could be a bit too graphic and bloody for some but it didn't bother me. I highly recommend this entire series. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ a good conclusion to the series *by S***O on December 27, 2016* First off, although I am going to try my best to avoid spoilers, do be aware that this is book 4 in a series, and I may inadvertently let something slip from one of the previous books. If you are thinking about reading this series, though, you really need to start with book 1. There are some important character transformations in this series (Veradis, the leader of a group of soldiers and a nobleman's younger son, being prime among them) and you won't be able to fully appreciate those unless you start from the beginning. The characters in this book are archetypes in a lot of respects -- the old witch/healer (Brina), the young boy from a small village with a DESTINY (Corban), the skilled fighter who teaches the young boy (Gar), the grizzled fighter bent on revenge (Maquin), the young queen trying to establish her reign (Edana), the skilled woodsman (Camlin), the manipulative otherworldly beings (Meical and Calidus), etc. (and plenty more where those came from). You have probably seen these characters before if you have read much fantasy at all. That being said, I was kind of looking for something familiar when I picked this up, so I don't mind the character types. But, if you are looking for something new and different, this may not be for you. This is a book where there aren't many gray characters, so when there is some moral ambiguity, it stands out. Something Meical says at the end of book 3 puts him in the gray character camp, I think. Lykos, leader of the Vin Thalun (think pirates/Viking raiders and you'll be close enough), is a nasty guy but has some interesting internal monologue that puts a different spin on things -- he does care about men he loses in battle and takes to drink rather than dealing with things (but then, you're never really in doubt that he's a bad guy). Nathair, a young king and friend of Veradis, also kind of fits this role, although he makes a conscious decision that keeps him on the darker side. A minor character, Trigg, makes a bad decision in a previous book and has to deal with the consequences. But by the time I get to Trigg, I am reaching. No, most characters are either good or bad, without much in between. I think it is still possible to like a book with non-gray characters. You do find yourself rooting for Corban, Gar, Cywen (Corban's sister), and crew. You're sad when they lose allies. They're easy to like and their struggles are easy to understand, to sympathize with. I spend so much time on the characters because that seems to me to be the primary focus of the book. The setting is generic medieval. What's nice for a change is that there aren't a lot of big towns. There are small towns near castles and there are holds and fortresses. But mostly people are traveling in small groups through the woods, or as big armies. I'm kind of grateful for the lack of taverns, inns, minstrels/bards, jousting, and the like. Although the overarching plot is a battle of good versus evil, there are a lot of side plots that are more character-focused. These can be repetitive. I kind of lost count of the number of times Camlin and Rafe encountered one another (Rafe is a kid who grew up near Corban but who chose the opposite side in the war). And similarly, Maquin's storyline got a bit old. He has two people against whom he wants revenge. He is successful with one of those quests midway through the book and then his storyline devolves into a series of encounters with his other target that also gets a bit repetitive. I suppose it is possible to argue that Camlin and Rafe hadn't been established as a rivalry through multiple previous books, but Maquin and his two rivals most definitely had been, pretty much since the beginning. The writing style has its quirks. There are lots of battle cries in ALL CAPS. A person will refer to his or her "old mam" every so often. Perhaps this is how people talk where the author is from? Or he perceives it to be how people would have talked. It kind of stands out to me. But then again, it is one of the only phrases that stuck with me in this way, so that's not too bad. Mostly the writing just sits back and does its job of telling the story. I do have to applaud the author for how he writes battle scenes -- I thought these were well done. I understood what was going on. Considering the state of medicine at the time, perhaps a few too many people survive wounds that ought to have killed them. But there are quite a lot of deaths in the book as well (most saved for the final battle; none are particularly shocking. though you will likely find some of them sad). There are a lot of daring rescue attempts (sometimes of people, sometimes of objects) and as I sit back and think about them, they are all a little different. And some of them are not successful, or someone is lost in the attempt, etc. So this was mostly well done, also. Anyway, overall I was entertained. There were a few things (discussed above) that kept this from being perfect for me, but I do think it was a good overall conclusion to this series and if you like rather traditional hero's journey stories with lots of fighting woven into the narrative, you will probably enjoy this series overall. ## Frequently Bought Together - Wrath (The Faithful and the Fallen, 4) - Ruin (The Faithful and the Fallen, 3) - Valor (Faithful and the Fallen) --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.us/products/44055399-wrath-the-faithful-and-the-fallen-4](https://www.desertcart.us/products/44055399-wrath-the-faithful-and-the-fallen-4) --- *Product available on Desertcart United States of America* *Store origin: US* *Last updated: 2026-05-16*