Antoine Rouaud is a major new player in the fantasy genre. He lives in Nantes, and this is his debut novel.
A club sandwich of present-day action and flashback explainers that blend into each other to keep the pacing brisk. -- Dean Evans SFX Magazine 20140101 Rouard has a talent for character depiction. -- Daniel Cairns SciFi Now 20131013 The Path of Anger has outstanding writing style - I would say arguably better than anything in contemporary secondary world fantasy genre - superbly drawn characters and narrative momentum. fantasybookcritic.blogspot.co.uk 20131021 Rouaud's slow reveal of the backstory promises intriguing future volumes of fantasy noir with a distinctly continental sensibility. -- Eric Brown The Guardian 20131123