He knows from a very early age the hardships of life and how there will always be pain in his heart, but how you learn to live with it and turn your life around will determine the type of person you want to be. First of all, Simon is a great character to cheer for and he has experienced tragedy in every way, shape, and form. This was one of my longer introductions to a review, but I needed to give you all the full story before we can get into why I liked this book do much.

Simon will need to fend for himself, survive the several trials of the house, and become a true traveler to save his village and change is destiny.

Simon is taken into the realm of Valinhall, a place that bestows the individual skills for fighting and surviving. Simon can’t just sit around and do nothing, so he visits the forest and begs the hooded traveler to teach him how to fight. Several villagers are captured and Alan takes it upon himself to go after the enemies. Eventually, his village is attacked and a fellow villager named Alan manifests his travelers gate of Light and he is chosen to vanquish evil from the land. Things look bad for Simon until he is saved by a mysterious man in a black cloak, who vanquishes the enemy travelers with his fighting skills, helps Simon with his mother, and tells him if you even need to find me again return to this forest.įast forward ten years later, Simon is living in a village and taking care of his disabled mother whom is still injured from the dreadful night long ago. This can take the form of fire, creatures and light to name a few and these are similar to the warrens we see in Steven Erikson’s Malazan series. A traveler is a person who can access one of the ten realms with the ability to channel essence from that realm. at eight years old his caravan while traveling through the woods is attacked by enemy travelers leaving his father killed and his mother severely injured. Unfortunately for Simon, his story starts off with a tragedy. Our main character Simon is such a person. House of Blades contains a prophecy where a savior is chosen to vanquish evil and save the realm, but what happens when the main character is not the chosen one and instead is left with nothing but having to fend for himself and make is own destiny to save his family and village. I didn’t know what to expect going into this story, but the descriptions I had heard surrounding this book really stood out to me. My first experience reading Will Wight is through his less popular but equally as engaging Traveler’s Gate trilogy starting with House of Blades.

His most popular series titled Cradle has excited fans and reviewers alike for years and has developed quiet a devoted readership. Will Wight is one of the most successful authors ever to come out of the self publishing industry.

The traveler's gate trilogy