A review by justiceofkalr
Oathbreakers by Mercedes Lackey

4.0

This was much better than the previous novel, The Oathbound. Probably a lot of that was due to the fact that this was one complete story, whereas the previous book was several short stories kind of mushed together. Also, Need, the magic sword that compels Kethry and Tarma to help women, has apparently become more restrained in this book so there was less running about and less cheese with the whole righteous women power bit. It felt much more like a novel with strong female leads than the estrogen-fest of the previous book that was a little bit too heavy-handed at times. The story itself was not bad. At the beginning of the book, the heroines have joined up with a mercenary group known as Idra's Sunhawks, partly due to a bard who just won't stop singing about how wonderful they are. The problem with the bard being that they gained a reputation as do-gooders and couldn't make any decent money anymore because they were so busy helping the helpless (which Need compelled them to do). Their Captain goes missing and the rest of the book follows the two of them as they're sent out to find what happened to her. No particularly big surprises or plot-twists, but a decent enough story.