The Emperor's Blades (Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, 1)

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Thanks for getting in touch. Actually, I don’t know Jason at all, except through the internet. I’m not involved with his pricing, and I don’t make any money off the books. I don’t follow the signed book market at all, and have no idea if he’ll manage to sell them at this price. Takes a story of family, loss, conspiracy and revenge and gives it new legs. It’s epic fantasy with a sharp, jagged edge to it, a modern sensibility, prose as tight as the leather wrapped about a sword’s hilt, and characters that you can relate to and give a damn about. I look forward to the next installment of Staveley’s chronicle.” —R. S. Belcher, author of The Six-Gun Tarot Hmmm….so why is that relevant here? Well, when we left the Emperor’s Blades I was sure who I liked and who I hated, I was certain who was on team good and team evil, I was positive that nothing could change my mind…..and then I read this book and now I have no idea about any of that. Worse yet I’m not sure who I want to root for or if I should root for anyone. Everyone is flawed, everyone has made mistakes, and everyone has sacrificed something or someone that perhaps they shouldn’t have. Staveley could do the almost impossible and make me love a character that I previously detested…only the final book will tell.

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I just can't, just when I thought things has gotten bettet it got worse than before for the siblings. In Annur, Adare concocts a plan to reveal Uinian’s deceit. She goes to the Temple of Light, where Uinian regularly performs a ritual in which he stands in a beam of focused light. The miracle comes from the fact that he doesn’t burn, despite the concentrated heat, a feat that his adherents take as proof of his divine favor. At the temple, Adare has one of il Tornja’s soldiers paralyze the priest with a blow dart, then render him unconscious with another. Unconscious, Uinian is unable to use his magic, and burns alive, then is torn to pieces by his furious congregation. Happy Valentine's Day, everyone! No matter who you have in your life, or who you do not have, I hope your day is filled with love and amazing books. Divisiveness again: side characters are amazing. Female characters especially. From bombardier Gwenna trough mysterious Triste to Skullsworn assassin Pyrre - my favorite character... Kaden, relying on the assistance of two unlikely acquaintances, makes his way towards the Annurian Capital to potentially claim the Unhewn Throne.I’ve almost finished your awesome book! I love the way you’ve built your world but still maintained high quality characters. The best book I’ve read since The Name of the Wind. In the last book, Adare was the only character who I did not like, but if I’m completely honest, she was the only consistent one from the previous book. At least we know she is growing into her role, and she accepts that she understands very little about what is going on but tries to do her best. Though, her naive-ness bugged me throughout. I found many of the situations in this book to be pretty exhilarating. The Emperor’s Blades contained its own set of thrills, but this installment really capitalized on the exciting moments. There were COUNTLESS huge reveals. Some I had kind of anticipated, but others were truly unexpected. The guessing game I was playing throughout the entire novel really served to hold my interest. Who could be trusted? Why was that character able to do something that they were clearly not supposed to be able to do?

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This is a hard book to rate and review. In many ways The Providence of Fire was a stronger book than The Emperor's Blades. It was faster paced, full of surprise twists and turns, and just all round more exciting to read. Unfortunately all three of the main POV characters developed in directions that I disliked. Which is a pity because without a core of likable lead characters to root for this series becomes a bit like a poor man's A Song of Ice and Fire. Maybe I’m too harsh, but it will take me a long time to accept how making someone stupider in a book is part of his characterization. Besides Pyrre (a character I really grew attached despite being a cold-hearted killer deep down), I felt immensely happy to learn about Nira. I would love to read the book about her story, I think that would be just breathtaking. I already have The last Mortal Bond lined up to read but at this point I'm seriously afraid to start it. I think that I'll send up a silent pray first before even attempting to start it. This trilogy is worth the time peeps but I urge that you take some calming and nerve pills before you even start. The author pulls out all the stops in ensuring that he works your very last nerve ( in both a good and bad way )Senft, Michael (1 April 2016). "Brian Staveley on Wrapping up His Fantasy Trilogy, "The Chronicles of the Unhewn Throne" ". Phoenix New Times . Retrieved 25 June 2017.

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Valyn has betrayed the Kettral by going AWOL and hunting down the renegade wing that was to be involved in the assassination of his brother. Yurl has been killed and Valyn and Kalen are planning for the impending arrival of The Flea whilst trying to figure out their next move, who they can trust and where they can go. The Emperor has been murdered, leaving the Annurian Empire in turmoil. Now his progeny must bury their grief and prepare to unmask a conspiracy. Kaden - Still the rightful heir to the Unhewn Throne, but the battle for it hasn't gotten any easier, nor have the mysteries surrounding it. So I was looking forward to this. And since I got a review copy that was coming via USPS (twice), I had to wait an extra month to get my hands on it. That further built the anticipation as I watched friends who I had recommended the first one read and highly rate it.In this epic fantasy debut, Staveley has created a complex and richly detailed world filled with elite soldier-assassins, mystic warrior monks, serpentine politics, and ancient secrets. Readers of Sara Douglass’s Wayfarer novels and George R. R. Martin’s “Song of Ice and Fire” series should enjoy this opener. —Library Journal, Debut of the Month, Starred Review The Emperor’s heir, Kaden, is studying with a bunch of mountain-bound monks. He’s eight years into his training when the novel begins, however his monastery is so far from the capital that he doesn’t find out about his father’s unfortunate fate till the last act. “One day Kaden would return to Annur to claim his place on the Unhewn Throne, but while he lived at Ashk’lan, he was just another monk, expected to work hard and obey,” to better his mind in various ways. Adare hui’Malkeenian, the Malkeenian princess, the Minister of Finance, now Emperor’s eyes and ears. However, oldest sister Adare, whom as you may recall spent most of the last book languishing in the capital being manipulated and treated with disdain by palace flunkies, is probably the one to see the greatest change to her character and storyline out of all of them. Having learned the identity of her father’s assassin, Adare formulates a plan to escape the city in the hopes of removing herself from the enemy’s grasp. Not knowing what has become of her brothers, she is also determined to find allies to secure the throne and keep Sanlitun’s killer from ever taking it. To this end, I particularly enjoyed learning more about their father Sanlitun, the now dead emperor, and the preparations he made for his children before his death. He tried and failed to foster a relationship between Adare and her younger brothers due to both her maturity and their immaturity and this has impacted on the woman she has become as she feels completely alone and isolated. Her path is greatly expanded here from the first book and she is now becoming the major player we all wanted her to be.