The novel has three main character perspectives, through which we learn basically everything we need. Bottom line, while there are a few niggles, Promise of Blood is a lot of fun, and the start of something potentially fantastic. When I was finally able to get my mitts on a copy, I tore into it, and blitzed through it far quicker than I normally do for a 500+ page novel.

I’ve been looking forward to this novel for a good long while. No modern educated man believes that sort of thing. Just old peasant legends about the gods returning to walk the earth. A rumour about omens of death and destruction. Now, amid the chaos, a whispered rumour is spreading. Stretched to his limit, Tamas relies heavily on his few remaining powder mages, including the embittered Taniel, a brilliant marksman who also happens to be Tamas’s estranged son, and Adamat, a retired police inspector whose loyalty will be tested to its limit. But it also provokes war in the Nine Nations, internal attacks by royalist fanatics and greedy scrambling for money and power by Tamas’s supposed allies: the Church, workers’ unions and mercenary forces. And I have killed it.”įield Marshal Tamas’s coup against his king sends corrupt aristocrats to the guillotine and brings bread to the starving. One of 2013’s most Hotly-Tipped Fantasy Debuts

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