Audible was having a sale on Will Wight books and seeing as I like sci fi/fantasy books I decided to pick up book 1 of the Cradle series with the thought of getting more down the line if I liked it. Overall I was not impressed, Unsouled is the first in what is currently an 8 book series and it felt like the whole book exists to merely introduce you to the world which is partially the book’s purpose which is why I gave it 3 stars. If it had been a standalone book it would have gotten 2 stars. The book starts off with a hero who is basically an outcast in his clan. It looks like a story where the outcast becomes stronger because of his outsider status and uses that new power to save the clan, which the series is what the book is about. Then in chapter 6 the book takes a hard turn when a very powerful being visits the hero and tells him that he must leave the valley that he lives in to train and become more powerful than anyone else in the clan in order to save the people in the valley. The entire rest of the book is him trying to leave the valley which he doesn’t actually do until the bonus chapter at the end which is when he also takes his first step in becoming more powerful. So the two things he was told to do back in chapter 6 don’t actually happen in this book. On the plus side I thought the world had good depth and detail but unless you’re willing to drop 8 credits on the series from the start I would say skip the book.