Kai Butler – Ascendant King (The Empty Throne Trilogy Book 3) (EPUB)

Ready for a grimdark fantasy novel that’s like Dungeons and Dragons meets Quentin Tarantino?

Malfus, the sarcastic necromancer, has been taken prisoner by the zealous Inquisitor Deza to be tortured and executed for the crime of using necromancy. Shackled in magic-nullifying chains and escorted across the dangerous Farlands, Malfus has given up all hope of ever casting a spell again.

That is, until they are ambushed… by a horde of gnolls, half-hyena marauders, forcing them to take refuge at a fort of heavily wounded soldiers already under siege by the ravenous horde. The Inquisitor only cares about bringing the necromancer to divine justice, but after giants destroy the wall, Colonel Peshka, the alcoholic army commander, knows another attack would be a death sentence for everyone. The only option remaining is to free Malfus so he can raise an army of the dead to fight the monsters.

Now, it isn’t just Malfus’s freedom on the line, his survival and the lives of every soldier at the fort are at stake. He may have arrived as a prisoner in chains, but now everyone will die unless he uses his necromancy to save them. But will this unsuspecting necromancer set his selfishness and cowardice aside long enough to become an unlikely hero? And will the dead be enough to save the living?

If you are looking for a book that reads like Joe Abercrombie, with magic systems like Brandon Sanderson, then check out Malfus: Necromancer Unchained!