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Cradle is now complete! This 12-book series begins here with Unsouled and concludes with Waybound.

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.

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Cradle
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13 June 2016
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“Fate is not fair, but it is just. Hard work is never in vain…even when it does not achieve what you wished.”
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But the foundation of any Path is learning to accept the world as it is, not as you wish or even observe it to be.
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“When a traveler cannot find a path, sometimes he must make his own.”
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Will Wight is the author of the Traveler's Gate trilogy, the Elder Empire cycle, and the Cradle series, with other titles available in alternate dimensions. He can smell fear, taste anger, and hear joy. Will lives in Orlando, among the creatures of swamp and sea. He graduated from the University of Central Florida, where he received degrees in Creative Writing and Bear Surgery. Visit his website at www.WillWight.com for ancient knowledge, book news, and a deep sense of personal satisfaction. If you begin having unexplained visions of Will Wight more than once a day, please move to an approved Wight-proof shelter immediately. To contact him, you could send him an email at will@willwight.com, comment on his website, visit his official Facebook page, track him down on his subreddit (r/Iteration110Cradle), or travel through the cursed mirror in your grandmother's attic. (Side effects of Will Wight novels may include dizziness, gnome dreams, sleep paralysis, smelling cookies when there are no cookies, and the sudden appearance of sharks.) --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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“The spirit has no limit, nor does the sky. How could a true Path have an ending?

If you studied until the end of the universe, you would still have not touched true

comprehension. The Path of the White Fox is but one among countless others,

and none reach the end.”

“This one thanks you for the enlightenment, Elder Whisper,” Lindon said, though

he still didn’t fully understand what the sacred beast meant to teach him.

All three foxes paused, side by side, regarding Lindon. “When a traveler cannot

find a path, sometimes he must make his own.”

Understanding washed over Lindon, and he bowed again out of gratitude. The

shame that had been exposed by the First Elder’s words ignited like tinder until

determination blazed alongside the lightning in his belly.

One of the Whispers blinked out of reality, leaving one staring Lindon in the eye

and one feasting on fish. “Remember. Cutting a road through a forest is always

harder than following one already cut.”

Lindon straightened. “If all it takes is work, Elder Whisper, this one will not fail

you.”

“Fate is not fair, but it is just. Hard work is never in vain…even when it does not

achieve what you wished.” With those words, the five-tailed fox faded away,

leaving only the real Elder Whisper enjoying his meal. Unsouled, pg 35

--This text refers to the hardcover edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01H1CYBS6
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hidden Gnome Publishing (13 June 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Will Wight is the New York Times and #1 Kindle best-selling author of the Cradle series, a new space-fantasy series entitled The Last Horizon, and a handful of other books that he regularly forgets to mention. His true power is only unleashed during a full moon, when he transforms into a monstrous mongoose.

Will lives in Florida, lurking beneath the swamps to ambush prey. He graduated from the University of Central Florida, where he received a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and a cursed coin of Spanish gold.

Visit his website at www.WillWight.com for eldritch incantations, book news, and a blessing of prosperity for your crops. If you believe you have experienced a sighting of Will Wight, please report it to the agents listening from your attic.

To contact him, you could comment on his blog, visit his official Facebook page, track him down on Instagram or TikTok (@willwight110), or write his name thirty-three times in the beach at low tide. He will call to you from the waves.

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Akhil Theerthala

Interesting read but need to drill through the first 150 pages

Reviewed in India on 6 March 2023

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The book starts of slow. I felt everything was over explained and unnecessarily long. However, once you reach around 150 pages you start seeing why the earlier drag was important. Since this is not a single book series, I am at a state where I readily opened the next in the series. I feel that one hell of a journey is starting.

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Pranith Kodila

A good fantasy in a long time

Reviewed in India on 10 May 2023

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Though it took a toll on my imagination, I really enjoyed the slow build-up to the concepts of the madra world. I could not put down my Kindle after the fiest half of the book. Stayed up till 3 AM just to finish the book.

Reviewed in India on 18 April 2023

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I don't really understand the hype about this book. Nothing new, the cliche of the lead character getting bullied for no reason, being less fortunate than others, and hated by everyone makes it less exciting. The info dump is too overwhelming and makes reading pretty boring. Instead of talking about copper, gold, jade, the author should have shown it in the story

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Arun

Quite good story on cultivation

Reviewed in India on 27 December 2022

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Good progression so far, will have to read other parts to get better opinion on this series hope it's good

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Mridula

Great start to a promising series

Reviewed in India on 11 September 2019

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I have read the Traveler's Gate series by this author and liked the writing style. The world building looks to be immense in this series, which is exciting. However, like in Traveler's Gate, here too pieces of information with hardly any history/background keep cropping up leaving more questions than answers.

This series covers a mind boggling concept of "traveling the Ways" which allows entities having enough power to travel anywhere in the universe instantaneously. The core magic concept seems to be oriental. The story revolves around Lindon, an obvious underdog, easy to root for. It also has Suriel, some sort of "heavenly entity" and maddeningly less information. So far it seems like a quest to get more powerful story arc for Lindon and absolutely no idea about Suriel.

The book is fast paced, lots of action and many mentions of things that exist but perhaps not relevant to current story. Hopefully things will be fleshed out soon in coming books. Since I like the writing style and the overall story seems to be very promising, I will go with the flow and continue the series for sure.

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Aditi Jain

Don’t know why this series isn’t more popular

Reviewed in India on 13 April 2022

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Absolutely loved the cradle series even though I picked it up with very low expectations. It slowly crept up to become one of my favourite series. Can’t wait to see what’s in for London next. If you like fantasy reads with no nonsense writing and a well defined magic system, this is the book for you.

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Divyanshu Agrawal

Great world building and character progression

Reviewed in India on 3 July 2022

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Cradle is one of the best progression fantasy books with great world building and a wonderful story.

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Sundeep Agarwal

Start of an awesome series, more rewarding on rereads

Reviewed in India on 9 February 2019

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Cradle is one of my all time favorite fantasy series. I read the first five in about a week - cool magic system, nice fight sequences and great characters. Being relatively short books and easy to read, these are easy to binge. There is a clear progression level, and the various training stuff the main characters go through is nice. Both the lowest level and highest levels are shown - that helps a lot in setting things to expect going forward.

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I enjoyed the reread after knowing the events from books 8 and 10 a lot more than I expected. There are so many little details that shine. Lindon tricking and cheating for every scrap of advantage, and fighting along side Yerin never gets old. Plus, the addition of bloopers and bonus scenes (on the author's blog) were nice too.

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Jeremy M

Solid Series w/ Steady Pacing

Reviewed in the United States on 7 October 2023

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For the longest time, I've been avoiding this series. I can't say exactly why -- maybe because the description just wasn't grabbing enough or maybe because KU seemed absolutely convinced I needed to read it. Well, I've finally read the first 3 books in the series.

There isn't a whole lot that is surprising here. It's a cultivation series, obviously, but it also doesn't lean into it nearly as much I would have expected. The elements from the genre are there but a lot of it feels very much like seasoning rather than the "meat & potatoes" of the story. This isn't a bad thing, and I think by following this route Wight has created a story that sets itself apart more distinctly from lots of other cultivation series' that you can find on KU.

The characters are okay, but after finishing 3 books, I'm beginning to wonder if Lindon, the supposed "MC," is even the main character. There is a decent cast of character that crop up and many of them prove to be considerably more interesting than Lindon is. All of them have backstories rife with trials, tribulations, and concrete goals; but Lindon still feels like he has nothing -- he's simply being dragged along in the story and trying to keep his head above water. For now I'm sill okay with it, but I'm hoping this changes sooner rather than later.

World building wise, I think Wight has done a fine job here. There are at least 2-3 different plot lines running around in this series that encompass different "scales" of this world, which lets Wight build a much broader view of the world. I won't go into any detail, but I'll just say that many other cultivation series _hint_ at this kind of stuff in rumors/myths within the story but you only occasionally see it played out within an actual story. Here you get it all.

Overall, I've liked what I've read and will continue, but I think maybe the series has been projected to be greater than it is (by Kindle Unlimited recommendations). If you like the cultivation genre and underdog stories, I can't see why you wouldn't like this series.

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Jonathan

Not just a series but an experience

Reviewed in the United States on 8 July 2023

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First of all let me start by urging you to read this book. It's super fun and full of action. If that's something you enjoy, then you can rest easy knowing you have a long adventure waiting ahead (I only wish it was longer!) with eleven more awesome books.

In my opinion this will quickly become a cult classic if it isn't already. I honestly can't remember the last time I read 12 books in two months and have even considered starting over from the beginning. Will Wight is all about action and fun and high magic. It's not sophisticated, the character development is slow and not very deep, the world-building is solid but doesn't have great depth. But who needs all that when it's so fun to read? Lindon is easy to relate to and carries the books (not alone) nicely. Most importantly, you will never be bored while you have more Cradle books to read.

So what's so great about Cradle other than endless action and thrill? First off, I find it a great relief to read a series that isn't all about some great evil threatening the land and the hero is the only one who can save the story. So tired of that same old thing, whether long winded (like Brandon Sanderson) or full of action (like John Gwynne). Not that they're bad books. But so refreshing to have a story that doesn't depend on a looming, foreboding dark superbeing threatening to take over existence. Not that there aren't dark, evil superbeings. It's just not what the story revolves around.

Really, what's great about Cradle is that you just can't wait to see how far Lindon will go. And of course there are the bloopers. Almost worth it just for that.

I'll end this by saying that I really am jealous of you. Because you haven't read Cradle yet. That means you have the 12 funnest books you've ever read waiting for you.

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great book

Reviewed in France on 3 August 2023

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So much style that I almost forgot to look for substance

Reviewed in the United States on 2 August 2023

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I read this on a recommendation from two of my friends (who are not acquainted with one another), and ai gotta say, it feels like an anime in text from. Power fantasy with roots in some Chinese and Japanese stories as far as I can tell.

I love the tale. I love the hype. There's some subverted expectations. I can definitely see where the plot is going sometimes, but I think it's interesting tional, and I find myself almost skipping pages because in anticipating payoff so much.

Now, this book is really good for it's story. It's characters are okay, though they do have a tendency to act as they need to to progress the story sometimes rather than as fully consistent characters. I think as the book goes on and WW warms up, he gets more consistent, and I hope to see that in future books too, but the point is this:
5 stars if you are in it for fun story.
Not 5 stars if you're expecting perfect prose.
But that's okay, literary perfection is for nerdy losers.

Jk have fun.

Bryan Desmond

Improve yourself.

Reviewed in the United States on 7 March 2023

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Well, that was fun.

Anyone who frequents the same stretches of Reddit that I do will likely know that Will Wight's Cradle series has an extremely dedicated (if somewhat small) fanbase. The type of enthusiasm displayed in fanbases like this one always intrigues me. If these people love these books so much, might I not also? Add to this that the series is self-published by the author, he interacts with his fans often, and playfully, and that I've been generally hungry to jump into new series lately, and you have a good mixture for positive reception of these books. But that's not all.

Cradle falls into a genre that I've been aware of for some time, but that I wasn't necessarily sure of a name for, and until relatively recently I'm not sure it even had one that was agreed upon. Now, it does. Progression fantasy. The idea being that it falls into a sub-genre of fantasy in which the main character(s) steadily increases in power and/or skill as the series progresses. You typically see stories like this in anime, in xianxia/wuxia-inspired web novels, etc. So its emergence into the western sphere is more recent, and Wight's Cradle series is often pointed at as a good a place to dive in if you're craving that type of story. I am, in fact, craving that type of story.

Unsouled is not written in stand-out prose. Wight does not have a mastery of language, and he is not writing characters of limitless depth. But what he clearly does have is a mind for stories, a solid foundation for world-building, and a penchant for fast-paced plotting. I say it all the time; not every book has to have everything. Most just have to do one thing well enough to be engaging, and I think Wight achieves that here.

Lindon's story is engaging from the start. Who doesn't root for the underdog? We get to watch him take his first steps on his path, with a host of fantastical characters around him, a deep and involved magic system, and a system of progression that feels like the tip of a much larger iceberg (as does this whole book). Wight employs the same type of storytelling that you see Sanderson use a lot. The whole 'question/answer' thing, where as soon as you get an answer to one question, it raises three more. So you get the satisfaction of having a question answered, and you maintain the mystique of having questions still to uncover. You end up feeling like you're always learning, always discovering something new, but with more around every corner. That's something that just works for me. And if he can keep it up, and engaging throughout, I think I'll like each book more and more.

And like I said, for those like me who may be dipping their toes into progression fantasy, this is just pure fun. I have extremely positive nostalgia for stories like Dragon Ball, and Cradle checks a lot of those boxes, while mixing in more western fantasy elements and even some elements that you'd more often find in a video game, but it still just works. Immensely powerful beings; schools of power; training paths; clear stages of advancement. And we're just getting started.

If you like: supernatural martial artists; giant snowfoxes; myriad artifacts of power; illusion magic; floating swords; winged immortals; flying clouds; underwater dragons; unbreakable armor; soul remnants with six swords for arms... Oh! And a multiversal organization overseeing hundreds of worlds and capable of manipulating reality itself (yep). Then, hey, Will Wight has something for you. I'm excited to see where it goes.

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