Today is the release day for the sixth and final book in the Saga of the Forgotten Warrior series. Heart of the Mountain is out now in eBook and hardcover (audio is on the way).
Please tell your friends, and once you’ve read it post a review and let me know what you think. I’ve been working on toward this ending for ten years. 😀
Amazon dropped off my copy a couple of hours ago. Looking forward to Friday.
If I can wait that long.
It’s garbage.
Just kidding, I haven’t started it yet. My timing was a bit off when I selected my previous book, but I decided to finish it first. This series is probably the best thing Larry’s ever written, so I’m sure it’s going to be good.
Yeah! Another one hits the shelf.
First time posting from a long-time lurker but I had to say something. Got the Kindle version last night and read it in a single sitting. It. Was. Awesome. Albeit bittersweet. I absolutely loved the final scene – nice bookend to the beginning. Although I’d be fascinated to know just how many years later that might have been….It also was fun to see certain characters spread their wings – surprisingly in some cases. And to see how certain other characters were…rewarded. Or not, as the case may be. That was a great ride – completely awesome series and I’ll be going back to re-read it many times again. Thank you Larry!
Reading it now. Loving it so far. 😀
I thought it was great. I’m a little sad it’s over, and I’d been hoping for a bit more understanding at the end of the … underlying technology (or whatever one might call it) of the universe, but even without that, it was very definitely a neatly crafted and complete story. I certainly didn’t feel like anything major had been left unresolved or unfulfilled. And that’s a great story. I will undoubtedly read the entire series at least one more time, if not more.
And, let’s face it, you left plenty of space to tell more tales there if you ever get the itch.
Way to stick the fucking landing! Just read the final chapter in HOTM.
Thank you for giving us this series, Larry. I enjoyed it from the very beginning and you gave us just about everything we could’ve asked for in the final book of the series.
Keep doing what you’re doing!
I received it yesterday, finished it last night. Magnificent! I see why book 5 became books 5 and 6 to tie up all the loose ends. Totally worth it.
But I am sorry the series is over. This cannot be the end of that literary universe. There is a TON of stuff to continue writing about. Can we get some prequel novels? Maybe some short stories by other authors about those “many years” between the last two chapters?
I just ordered Heart of the Mountain. I have yet to start Graveyard of Demons, but I may start that this weekend and hopefully finish that and start HotM as soon as it shows up. Hand down, my favorite series to read in years. Even got my dad and brothers to read the first 3/4 books .Can’t wait for my copy to show up. I prefer an actual book that I can loan out over a digital copy.
But what I wanted to say was that I also agree with MM. You have an entire awesome world that still has stories to tell and if you don’t have the time to tell them, I’m sure you’ve got some friends that would! Thanks Larry for a story with a beginning, middle and end!
“Remember, Dracula never ends. It may be over, but it never ends.” — Bela Lugosi
The ending was great, but my favorite scene was Ashok and the elephant. Absolutely glorious and cinematic.
Ughmeingott.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 yesterday.
Heart of the Mountain today.
Early release of Civilization 7 tomorrow.
This is the all-afternoon-and-into-evening Thanksgiving dinner for the mind. I am bloated with awesomeness (with cautious optimism for Civ7).
Bought the Kindle version. Was enjoying it until the first chapter with Jagdish — it is scrambled. I flip a page and find myself reading part of the previous page. And there are gaps in the narrative. SERIOUS TECHNICAL PROBLEMS.
Bumming.
That’s the first I’ve heard of anyone having that issue.
I’ve got no clue how that works.
Seems to be a problem with my 11 year old Kindle. Rebooting fixed the problem. Sorry to bug you.
Okay good, because I was really hoping that wasn’t going to be a common problem out there. 😀
Not quite the same, but my kindle edition had some glitchy bits with misformatted ‘indent’ on one section…
(Chapter 12, in the letter from Rada to Devedas).
Looks like a layout issue, not a writer error…
Finished it yesterday. Well written and a solid ending.
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Replying to Scott – I had same thing with Rada’s letter having the literal word “indent” in place of an actual indent. But yeah, just in that one specific spot. I assume the letter is maybe formatted differently in print but the kindle version didn’t get the memo. Ah well.
I agree with an above comment: Absolutely stuck the landing!
I’ve had an issue with a Kindle book getting garbled before. What worked as a fix was removing it from the device and re-downloading.
Might be worth a try before contacting Amazon support.
Belay the above comment! Rebooting my Kindle fixed the problem.
Just got mine in the mail, can’t wait!
Geez Larry, the feels in the closing couple of chapters. I was actually tearing up in the last one. Good job, man.
Absolutely the best six book trilogy I’ve ever read! A very satisfying conclusion which feels complete. However, if somehow there were further stories down the road, that would feel completely natural as well.
I am glad you have a new book, but I am having trouble reading the earlier ones. Because they are not being published in Mass Market format. This is only happening in Science Fiction. Mystery, Romance and Fiction are still being released as Mass Markets. Is somebody trying to kill Science fiction
My presumption is that the mass market paperback is slimming down as the bargain shoppers are going ebook. Publishers, at least smart ones, tend to publish in what maximizes returns. If they find that they sell 10,000 hard covers and make $10 a book versus 40,000 paperbacks and make $2 a book, they’re still going to focus on the hardcovers until that market is done, then maybe do a mass market paperback.
That said, I bought the first 3 books in Mass Market Paperback a couple years ago, and they’re still all listen on Amazon. Graveyard of Demons and Heart of the Mountain are not, though.
As someone else who primarily buys mass market, I hear you, but disagree – it’s not just in SciFi. Lots of reasons, but primarily ebooks and print costs, from what I’ve seen and have been told when whining to Toni W.
With many publishers, it’s gone from Hardback -> Mass Market to Hardback -> Trade Paper -> Mass Market (maybe). From what I understand, the Mass Market involves more risk and worse margins than Trade Paper as well.
In addition, Amazon seems to have become hostile to MM. I used to be able to search for MM books. Now, if I search an author by MM, many times it will come up with no results, but if I bring up a book it will show me a MM option that their search indicated didn’t exist. Annoying.
For Larry’s most recent Saga of the Forgotten Warrior books though, there has been a delay (generally of around a year) between a hardcover release and the next print version. Baen has been releasing a trade paper for at least some of these, so for instance Tower of Silence released April 4, 2023 in hardback, on Feb 6, 2024 in trade paper, and will release on March 11, 2025 in mass market.
Reading on kindle. An editing instruction (indent) has crept into the text (letter from Radamantha to Devedas, beginning of every paragraph), which kindle says is at page 144 of 385. Letting you know in case electronic versions can be fixed more easily than printed.
Loved the entire series! Setting was very interesting. Don’t see many books with an Indian motif. Characters awesome, black steel is cool, and the 1,000 year plan wasn’t what I expected! Thanks for all your work on this series and others!
Got it, read it, done. Have three comments, but will wait until people have a chance to read it and see if the first two are addressed by other readers. I hate people who spoil the adventure for others, don’t wanna be that guy. Comment three is just that it’s nice to have a series that has closure, but Ashok seemed to be a fun character to write. Sad that this is the end, but what a fun ride! Ty!
Can I at least say that I read chapter 37 several times, just to savor the last few paragraphs? 😛
“Hold this for me.”
Amazing and…burtal might be the nicest way to put it.
The fight scenes felt rather anime, which made me think of Hindu Bollywood Wuxia Xianxia
You may not have revealed the full history of the old world, but I presume things were way more Xianxia, if with a Hindu aesthetic many thousands of years ago in this series
So I know you can do Progression Fantasy, just awesome
Finished it last night. Amazing read and perfect ending. Thank you.
I got it on Saturday. I will read it after I finish MH:Fantom. Speaking of MH, no not a next book question, I was reading through Fantom and read about the monster whose weakness was glass, which got me to thinking of unique monsters MHI could hunt. The Headless Horseman is obvious. However, I got to wondering what kind of Monster Dorian Gray is and my google fu is failing me. Anyone have an idea?
Long time LC fan, never posted before. Just finished HotM last night, agree with others. It was a fantastic finish!
Got my wife into the series – we both re-read books 1-5 before this one arrived (I finished 4 & 5 during a cruise through the Panama Canal.)
She’s also read 2/3 of Grimnoir, and looking forward to reading Warbound. She hasn’t gotten into MHI, but I think I’ve got her hooked!
Amazing series, Larry.
Great finale.
Would love to see more in this world, but not as much as I want to see the next stage of Grimnoir.
That said, looking forward to whatever you do next as it’s always entertaining.
Loved the finale. Top tier series for me all time. Any upcoming box sets now that the whole series is out?
(I read on the kindle app before bed, lights off, but definitely want to invest in some hardbacks for my shelves and rereads. Didn’t want to buy the current hard covers and miss out on a special edition lol)
p.s. it was so enjoyable and satisfying to have a series full of smart, capable, badass characters in a classic good triumphing over evil saga. Thanks for writing it.
Hey Larry, wanted to say thank you for this series. I’ve been reading it since The Son of the Black Sword came out and it’s been an escape for me through some really hard times. I appreciate all the work you put into these amazing books.
The whole series is fantastic. I am sad that this is the final book, but I feel the ending was super well written and closed Ashok’s story very well. I would love more books in this world, maybe we can learn about the other continents and what happened with them, or more about the Protector’s before Ratul joined. This has become one of my favorite series and I think each book was great. There were no weak links! Book 2 was by far my favorite, because Sikasso was such a fun villain. Thank you for the super fun journey!