This is a perfect example of how a novella should be written. The Fall is set 400 years before the events that occur in Of Blood and Fire (The Bound and The Broken, book 1). It is short and intense, and we are thrown straight into chaos and brutality.

I enjoyed Cahill’s writing a lot. The way he describes scenes;

the impending arrival of a dragon, the communication and connection between dragon and dragonbound or the use of a character's powers

, all of these are so well described. The atmosphere was right there from the first sentence and despite the amount of information given to the reader in this novella, Cahill is able to do this without it feeling like an info dump. 

Cahill combines so many fantasy elements that I've seen across many other fantasy books and it was thoroughly enjoyable to read!