The Sekhmet Bed: A Novel of Ancient Egypt (The She-King Book 1)
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The second daughter of the Pharaoh, Ahmose has always dreamed of a quiet life as a priestess,...
The Companion
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They say she’s a murderess. She claims she’s innocent. But Lucy has been known to tell lies… ...
Historical fiction Unreliable narrator New Hampshire 1855
Knife (Harry Hole #12) (Oslo Sequence #10)
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Brilliant, audaciously rogue police officer, Harry Hole from The Snowman and The Thirst, is back and...
With Malice
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It was the perfect trip…until it wasn’t. Eighteen-year-old Jill Charron wakes up in a...
A Little Hatred
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War. Politics. Revolution. The Age of Madness has arrived . . . The chimneys of industry rise...
The Hemlock Cure
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It is 1665 and the women of Eyam keep many secrets. Isabel Frith, the village midwife, walks a...
Historical fiction The Black Death Bubonic Plague 1665-1666 Eyam
Learwife
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‘I am the queen of two crowns, banished fifteen years, the famed and gilded woman, bad-luck...
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David McK (3562 KP) rated The Fires of Vengeance in Books
Jun 5, 2022
And I don't mean that pejoratively - I like me a bit of fantasy every now and then!
Anyway, this follows on almost directly from the ending of the previous novel, with Tau Solarin now having risen to the rank of Queen's Campion, still out for revenge against the Royal noble who killed his father, and now wit the added, umm ... shall we say complications? ... that arise from his feelings towards the Omehian Queen Tsiora who is facing a civil war over her actions (including elevating a Common like Tau to be her champion).
For some reason, however, I didn't connect with this one so much as with the previous - I'm not sure whether that was because this seemingly focused more on the grand sweep of the ongoing war than on the personal stakes involved?
Anyway, it also ends with a definite cliff-hanger setup for book #3 - I'll probably continue reading the series when that comes out.
Stone Blind
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'So to mortal men, we are monsters. Because of our flight, our strength. They fear us, so they call...
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