By Kai Hsu
Genres: Fantasy, Cultivation, Progression, Magic
Age Range: 13 - 18
Summary: Lindon is born Unsouled, the one person in his family unable to use the magical Paths of the sacred arts. He uses every trick and technique he can borrow or steal to improve his life, but it seems he will never be able to join the ranks of the truly powerful.
Until the heavens descend and show him the future.
When Lindon becomes the only one who sees the approaching doom, he must leave his homeland to save it... and to see how far he can go by walking his own Path.
This book is part of a not-finished 11 book series. It is seriously one of my favorites ever, and for good reason. Books under the Cultivation and Progression genres generally strive towards magic systems and and intricate power-building. That doesn’t mean it slacks off in other things though. It has some great worldbuilding, a really intricate magic system, and though it could be a little rough at the beginning, trust me, stick to it.
One fallacy that progression fantasy books fall for is the fact that they eventually hit a cap, or a roadblock. The general focus of progression novels is the progression of the hero's power. With such a focus on growth, most books eventually hit a dead end. Unsouled doesn't fall for that trick. Instead, it opens up a world so large with such a high cap of power, I wouldn't even blink an eye if the author wrote a completely different story in the same world, featuring a different narrator. The worldbuilding is just that large. It doesn't expose it all to you either. It starts off with small demonstrations of magic, then eventually you'll start reading about people casually throwing world-ending attacks, which thanks to the focus on power in progression fantasy, made sense to me. I cannot describe how magical that felt, when I realized that I could mentally accept this as realistic, at least, in that world.
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