Landsend Plateau
Immortality and Chaos • Book 2
by Eric T. Knight
Why You'll Love This
A shattered faith, a mother never met, and an ancient god's vengeance already in motion — Netra has no good options, only harder ones.
- Great if you want: morally complicated characters caught between colliding cosmic forces
- The experience: steadily escalating tension across multiple converging storylines
- The writing: Knight keeps the prose lean and the stakes personal, even at world-ending scale
- Skip if: you haven't read book one — the payoffs depend heavily on prior setup
About This Book
The world of the Immortality and Chaos series grows darker and more urgent in this second installment. Netra carries the weight of a death she can't forgive herself for, setting out alone on a search for the mother she has never met—only to find a world coming apart at the seams. An ancient force is moving against the gods, and the people caught in between are being forced to declare allegiances under threat of annihilation. The stakes are both intimate and civilizational: a young woman's fractured faith tested against a catastrophe that demands certainty.
What distinguishes this book as a reading experience is how Knight balances two parallel storylines without losing momentum in either. Netra's journey has the raw urgency of someone outrunning her own conscience, while the chapters on the Landsend Plateau carry a slower, more atmospheric dread. Knight writes action with clarity and emotional consequence, never letting spectacle crowd out character. Readers who appreciate fantasy that takes its world-building seriously—where the mythology feels genuinely lived-in rather than decorative—will find this entry deepens the series in ways that make the next volume feel necessary.