He was betrayed by his superiors and sent to the Landfall prison labor camp. Michel Bravis: A Blackhat (policing force of Landfall) recruiter that is asked to be the liaison between Vlora Flint and the Fatrastan leadership residing in Landfall, while also tracking down the source of a large number of pamphlets entitled “Sins of Empire” which contain propaganda against the Fatrastan government.īen Styke: A giant of a man that used to be the Colonel of the Mad Lancers in the recently-ended Fatrastan war. She and her soldiers are called back to the city of Landfall to root out a rebellion that is brewing within its major Palo slum. Vlora Flint: Leader of the Riflejacks, a mercenary army that has been putting down revolts by the Palo people. The story occurs in the port city of Landfall in the country of Fatrasta and is split between three main POV characters: I’m still trying to catch up with Malazan for crying out loud…)
(Ah, my ever-present love-hate relationship. I kind of jumped in mid-stream to this one, and now that I know he’s awesome, I have tons of stuff to read, dang it. SINS OF EMPIRE ( Amazon) is the first in a new series, Gods of Blood and Powder, from Brian McClellan, author of the Powder Mage Trilogy and a large number of short stories and novellas set in the same world. And after reading it, I think if you haven’t read his books yet, then you should “give him a shot” too. He mentioned something about how awesome Daniel Abraham’s most recent fantasy series was, and I figured if the guy loved Abraham’s method of storytelling, then he likely wouldn’t have written a bad book about black-powder mages, which was still a freaking cool idea, and I should give the guy a shot. Until I listened to him speak at a writer’s convention. Well, ever since his first book came out, because I heard it was pretty awesome, and how could you not love a story that mixed magic with black powder? For whatever reason, though, I just never picked one up.
I’ve been meaning to read this guy’s books for quite a while now.
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