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A review by pickledpuck
Blood and Betrayal by Lindsay Buroker
3.0
Something was definitely missing here. Amaranthe's torture sessions with Pike were a bit too distant (I'm pretty used to being in the front seat with scenes like this, so pretty much anything until the description of a blade scraping against bone being audible is not going to shock me, I think). That's my main complaint by the way. Amaranthe gets over her supposed one week of torture in the hands of a supposedly master interrogator with definite sadistic tendencies in the span of another week. I know for a fact that trauma does not fade away that fast (although the scenes depicting her as too jumpy were somewhat satisfying, it wasn't good enough).
The scene when Amaranthe talks to Sespian about his heritage, and the subsequent reactions were perfect though. I felt like Amaranthe hit all the right spots. If not for her being a mercenary, and the setting's discrimination against women, then I think she could've achieved her place in Turgonian's history as the smoothest best damn diplomat ever to have existed, capable of talking down the most successful and feared assassin in the world (hmm, that might be a good spin-off, methinks).
Anyways, this book had a lot of Maldynado in it, so the only thing that kept me going was the fact that I knew Sicarius was going to eventually find Amaranthe, and knowing the author, would make the subsequent reunion scenes as fangirl-able as possible. Which it was. (**********>\€\!\€\£\£\£]!!!!!)
Am curious how the author would take Sespian and Sicarius's relationship.
On to the next book!
(I really should be slowing down with the reading thing.)
The scene when Amaranthe talks to Sespian about his heritage, and the subsequent reactions were perfect though. I felt like Amaranthe hit all the right spots. If not for her being a mercenary, and the setting's discrimination against women, then I think she could've achieved her place in Turgonian's history as the smoothest best damn diplomat ever to have existed, capable of talking down the most successful and feared assassin in the world (hmm, that might be a good spin-off, methinks).
Anyways, this book had a lot of Maldynado in it, so the only thing that kept me going was the fact that I knew Sicarius was going to eventually find Amaranthe, and knowing the author, would make the subsequent reunion scenes as fangirl-able as possible. Which it was. (**********>\€\!\€\£\£\£]!!!!!)
Am curious how the author would take Sespian and Sicarius's relationship.
On to the next book!
(I really should be slowing down with the reading thing.)