Galva’s story is a different one to Kinch’s. Though his is fraught with danger, it is told from a witty, oh-well-things-could-be-worse tone of voice. It’s funny, comedic, and there’s hope there. Albeit slim hope. In The Daughters’ War – being the backstory of Galva and marking the story of the war we heard about in the first book – is not a story of hope. That is gone. The Goblin Hordes have decimated Gallardia and stand to sweep across Manreach if they are not stopped here. In the Thresher’s War, they lost 9/10 men, and their last line of defense is female soldiers and their war corvids.
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Review: The Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue #1) by Christopher Buehlman
I’m rereading both The Blacktongue Thief and The Daughters’ War in time for the upcoming The Thrice-Bound Fool; Buehlman’s magnificent book of goblins, krakens, crafty thieves, cantrips, and war corvids gets better every time you read it. I laughed, I cried, and I had a lot of fun.
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Paprick is back and his legend is growing – with writing as sharp as the Chef’s knives, plot as big and expansive as a Drakephon and world-building as intricate as the steps needed to create a new greater recipe, this was one hell of a sequel that tore my heart out and has refused to give it back.
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A rich and dark world full of lore and gods that walk the planet, demons and exorcisms, monsters and lost technology, and a story so tightly paced and gripping you won’t want to put it down.
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An excellent entry in a new series from Bradley P. Beaulieu which features a healthy smattering of dragon bonding and lore, an empire that has long oppressed the kin, the people of the Holt, a great forest full of magic and wonder, and where Faedryn, the trickster god, is imprisoned.
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