
A God in Ruins
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WINNER OF THE 2015 COSTA NOVEL AWARD. A God in Ruins relates the life of Teddy Todd - would-be poet,...

Aliyyah
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Captain Robert Haldane wakes up in a strange room, in an old house, surrounded by a beautiful but...

Moskva
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'Even better than Child 44' Daily Telegraph 'Given that the definitive thriller in 1980's Moscow...

Cruisers of the 1st Rank: Avrora, Diana, Pallada
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An illustrated monograph dedicated to the story of the construction, building and service of the...

Nick
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Before Nick Carraway moved to West Egg and into Gatsby's periphery, he was at the center of a very...

When the Emperor was Divine
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Longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, When the Emperor Was Divine is the critically acclaimed...

Europe in Flames: The Crisis of the Thirty Years War
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`War,' wrote Cardinal Richelieu, `is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict...

Call of Duty: Black Ops - Topic
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Call of Duty: Black Ops is a 2010 first-person shooter, developed by Treyarch and published by...

Dragondoom (Mithgar book #5)
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One of Dennis L. McKiernan's most acclaimed novels, Dragondoom brings the fascinating world of...

David McK (3562 KP) rated Blood and Honour (Forest Kingdom #2) in Books
Aug 21, 2022
I struggle to put my hand on what that something is, though.
In this, a down on his luck actor - 'The Great Jordan' - is hired to impersonate Price Victor, one of the three claimants to the throne of Redhart following the mysterious death of its former incumbent, and after the chaos of The Demon War, which is really only mentioned in passing, with a few cameos from characters from said war.
None of the three claimants, however, are particularly nice characters ...
Cue a mix of magic and mayhem, with an outsiders view of the politics played in the courts of those high in the land, a few twists and turns - some of which you can see coming a mile and a half off, but others of which you (or, at least, I) didn't the first time around.
Then again, I was in my early teens that first time around ...