First impression after just finshing this novel by Brian McClellan was "what a fun read". Anyone who is a fan of epic fantasy needs to pick this one up.For those who enjoy this genre, you pretty much know what to expect when you start reading a new epic fantasy series, action, intrigue and lots of b...
First impression after just finshing this novel by Brian McClellan was "what a fun read". Anyone who is a fan of epic fantasy needs to pick this one up.For those who enjoy this genre, you pretty much know what to expect when you start reading a new epic fantasy series, action, intrigue and lots of b...
Couldn't finish this one - 2 Stars I gave this one the old college try. I gave the audiobook 6 hours of my time which was about 30%. I found the premise of the story to be interesting and unique. A group of mages whose powers stem from and primarily effect gunpowder orchestrate a coup to take dow...
I had very much been looking forward for months to reading Promise of Blood before I began. Every author has their own particular style, which one can see is unfluenced by a variety of the authors they have read and studied or loved. I can see the influence of authors in my own style, in fact for a ...
I can never do good fantasy justice. You know how I ramble on. The book was good, the book was excellent. What more is there truly to say? If you like fantasy I will definitely recommend it.But I will try.Fantasy and guns. I have come across it before and thought it was cool, and yes it was still co...
I'll start off by saying it's been a while since I picked up a book and couldn't put it down. When I first heard of this book, I knew I wanted to read it. The idea of a Civil War setting combined with magic was intriguing. Plus, just look at that badass cover. It certainly didn't disappoint.From the...
Although it's hardly the first time "flintlock fantasy", aka fantasy with gunpowder has been done - Paul Kearney's The Monarchies of God in the late '90s for example - Promise of Blood seems to the be one of the first a new wave of books within this sub-genre. One of the things that intrigued me th...
In the aftermath of a bloody coup against the monarchy, Field Marshal Tamas struggles to hold the country together while trying to figure out who among his trusted allies is a traitor. Meanwhile, his estranged son goes into the mountains to kill a friend and stumbles upon a plot to summon a god...A...
Notes on the audiobook at the end.There are so many interesting things in Promise of Blood and I give a lot of credit to McClellan for being able to blend sorcery and gunpowder. The Power Mages are mages who get a steroidal effect from the ingestion of gunpowder and can use magic to control bullets ...
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