Black Lightning - Season 2
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High school principal Jefferson Pierce, who retired from his superhero persona Black Lightning nine...
Archie, Vol. 6
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ARCHIE VOL. 6 is the next installment in the collection of the historic ARCHIE series relaunch,...
Murphy’s Law
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His thick and fast-growing medical file says he should be retired, but Detective Martin Murphy wants...
Fyre (Septimus Heap #7)
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Favorite characters return in this stunning seventh final book in Angie Sage's New York Times...
The Unknowns
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In a trailer park called Adjacent, next to the Folsom Energy Plant, people have started to vanish,...
The Giant Gila Monster (1959)
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Low-budget B-movie, made by the owner of a drive-in theatre chain back-to-back with The Killer...
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Bad Guys: The Movie (2019)
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A bus transporting the inmates is flipped resulting in the felons escaping. In order to round up and...
Murder at the Mushroom Festival
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There’s a corpse among the chanterelles! Redwood Cove Bed and Breakfast manager Kelly Jackson...
Ross (3284 KP) rated Priest of Lies in Books
Jun 26, 2019
Priest of Bones was one of my favourite books of last year. I loved the narrative style, the dark tone and the simple yet thrilling storyline. The returning conscripts using their newly learned military tactics to take back their streets and run their gangland empires was a clever, honest and hard-hitting story. It really was "peaky blinders with swords".
The follow-up continues in that vein, the Pious Men gang have consolidated their hold in Ellinburg and are now at full-on gang war. However, as they returned from war, so does a large number of other former gangsters, and a number of new/revived gangs compete for territory.
The fantasy tone is still used here, despite being the mystical, noble pursuit we are used to. I seriously love Mclean's narrative voice, his action scenes and his overall pace of writing.
I was thrilled to see in the Q&A at the end of the book that I was right in thinking Ellinburg was based loosely on Edinburgh.
The feel of this book is very much a grim and nasty version of Terry Pratchett's Guards series, with characterisation and scene setting to rival Pratchett at his best.
A truly immersive compelling read that I loved from start to finish.
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Drukspillet "TourDeDruk" sætter med garanti gang i festen! Swipe et kort og dyst mod dine venner -...