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The Providence of Fire
by Brian Staveley
“Fuck Gwenna said, glancing over at Annick. The sniper's lips tightened. "Fuck,” she agreed tersely.
What a Kent-kissing rollercoaster!
Kaden begrudgingly decides he has to take the throne rather than sit on a rock all day. Between him and Valyn, they split up to try and gather knowledge about their history, the state of their empire, and who’s out to stab them in the back.
Siblings pitted against each other. Wars assembled against friends and enemy. Alliances shifting as loyalties are pledged.
Adare plays a more pivotal role in this book compared to the last one - a classic getting a backbone as she decides her gender shouldn’t be a hindrance.
”Yer history is all about men, your ritual is about men. Unless you're plannin' to strap on a terra-cotta cock and go back to Annur thwackin' people in the face with it--which I don't recommend-- ya need to tip the whole board full of history directly into the piss bucket and start over. You need people to see you, not the man you're not."
Gwenna gets her own pov! It’s not as strong as I remember as her story in the Unhewn Empire, yet it’s exciting to see the development in both her characters and Staveley’s writing.
I preferred book one to this one, there was just a lot of journeying and fighting and getting from A to B. Also, since Kaden’s whole emotionless state, his chapters can sometimes be a little dry, especially as his story takes a more political approach.
Valyn also seemed to have a step back from always doing the right thing to hanging back and playing safe which seemed out of sorts of the trouble he got himself into in book one.
“There is more than one fight here," Valyn ground out. "The fact that one is evil doesn't make the other good.”
What a Kent-kissing rollercoaster!
Kaden begrudgingly decides he has to take the throne rather than sit on a rock all day. Between him and Valyn, they split up to try and gather knowledge about their history, the state of their empire, and who’s out to stab them in the back.
Siblings pitted against each other. Wars assembled against friends and enemy. Alliances shifting as loyalties are pledged.
Adare plays a more pivotal role in this book compared to the last one - a classic getting a backbone as she decides her gender shouldn’t be a hindrance.
”Yer history is all about men, your ritual is about men. Unless you're plannin' to strap on a terra-cotta cock and go back to Annur thwackin' people in the face with it--which I don't recommend-- ya need to tip the whole board full of history directly into the piss bucket and start over. You need people to see you, not the man you're not."
Gwenna gets her own pov! It’s not as strong as I remember as her story in the Unhewn Empire, yet it’s exciting to see the development in both her characters and Staveley’s writing.
I preferred book one to this one, there was just a lot of journeying and fighting and getting from A to B. Also, since Kaden’s whole emotionless state, his chapters can sometimes be a little dry, especially as his story takes a more political approach.
Valyn also seemed to have a step back from always doing the right thing to hanging back and playing safe which seemed out of sorts of the trouble he got himself into in book one.
“There is more than one fight here," Valyn ground out. "The fact that one is evil doesn't make the other good.”