Book description
'The Age of Kings is dead. And I have killed it.' Field Marshal Tamas's coup against his king sends corrupt aristocrats to the guillotine and brings bread to the starving. But it also provokes war in the Nine Nations, internal attacks by royalist fanatics and greedy scrambling for money and…
Why read it?
2 authors picked Promise of Blood as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Fight the power, flintlock style. Field Marshal Tamas and his son Taniel Two-Shot execute the previous ruler and spark a bloody war.
I liked the father-son dynamic and the political machinations. The flintlock warfare and very closely related magic system(s) were also quite fun.
From Scott's list on speculative fiction featuring revolutions: fight the power!.
I was turned onto The Powder Mage books by my friend, and anytime a book can bring people together, that’s a special thing. Full of explosive action, swashbuckling adventure, it was the first time I’d read a “gunsmoke” or “napoleonic” fantasy, for that’s precisely what McLellan has constructed. The wartorn, politicized world of The Powder Mage echoes our own recent past, yet amplifies it, bringing to the surface larger-than-life heroes to contend with the likes of Napoleon, Washington, and Cromwell. As a reader, it was another game-changing moment of “I’ve never seen fantasy do that,” and it gave…
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