With their forces gathered, the revolutionary leaders within Lescar begin their bid to win the minds and hearts of the people, as well as the lands of the rival dukedoms.
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Juliet McKenna has been interested in fantasy stories since childhood, from Winnie the Pooh to The Iliad. An abiding fascination with other worlds and their peoples played it part in her subsequently reading Classics at St. Hilda's College, Oxford. After combining bookselling and motherhood for a couple of years, she now fits in her writing around her family and vice versa. She lives with her husband and children in West Oxfordshire England.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
author needs to think about some of what she writes,
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This review is from: Blood in the Water (Chronicles of the Lescari Revolution Trilogy) (Mass Market Paperback)
Better than the first book, there still are problems with the delivery of this story. Some attempt was made to explain how one pair of our heroes use magic where they should not be able to. And then some attempt I believe is made to explain magic and how it fits politically with the authors other series.
It fails for me as I have not read the other series. But a great deal of time is spent with the subplot that seems to fizzle out. There are things that work though. The battles and concept of armies moving about. The names of the nobles have been drilled into us so often that it begins to make sense, but the number of mercenary companies is so vast that mentioning new ones intermixed with ones we have heard of before is just a confusion. Further it is done so to describe a battle. A good book on battles where they show how units move and maps of where units start a battle, would have benefited the author writing a book on a large war. Here we get lost, a lot in battle. We also see a hero complain bitterly that he does not have the fighter credibility and yet he survives through several actions unscathed and is made the third part of the armies best special forces team. It does work as a story, but the holes should have been plugged. McKenna seems to have a grand idea, but then there are other problems as well. Financing the army. It all comes from a few men. Not a government. Just saying that doesn't mean anyone could do so. We know that in our own world to finance a mercenary unit takes fortunes. To finance an army worth, on campaign. It is why we have governments. The author throws out a line that the captured capitals treasury did not have a lot in it and they hoped to have found a fortune to pay for the army. Well, they should have found a lot in it. If you start doing the numbers, how much a mercenary needs to earn each day, and multiply that out by an army, that is not going to loot to supplement its needs because it is paid well, the financiers have had to been hoarding from their fantastical profits for a long time. And if these men were like any other men in their line of work, let me have that business. I would be a billionaire in no time. Those problems show McKenna writes something but does not think about it. The same with time scale where some pages it takes a day to cover half the map and other times weeks. A dedicated editor who paid attention to this could have begun to make this series head towards the level that Jordan maintains in the Wheel of Time. Instead we have someone who has a good outline for a story, that needs more work.
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A sequel to beat the first book,
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This is the sequel to Irons in the Fire, being the second book in the "Chronicles of the Lescari Revolution." I liked the first one a lot, and if anything I liked this one even better. This is another thick book, 650-odd pages, though it reads fairly fast. Most of it describes the campaign run by the Captain-general Evord fal Breven using mercenaries hired by exiles from Lescar to overthrow the six dukes whose constant warfare trying to put themselves on the throne has been keeping the rest of the population destitute ever since the fall of the Tormalin Empire centuries earlier. At the end of the first book Evord's army had conquered the duchy of Sharlac, and its duke and his heir had both fallen in battle. He was moving into the neighboring duchy of Carluse, whose duke is acknowledged to be the best military commander of the six. It's a long, grinding campaign, and in this case the duke is actually assassinated by an agent of another duke, although only after his army has been soundly beaten. The heir of the duke of Draximal also falls in battle, the duke of Triolle has to flee his capital (and he and his wife split up at the end), and the duke of Parnilesse is killed by a popular uprising in his capital. The only dukes remaining alive and in possession of their duchies are the duke of Draximal, who is now the last of his line (other than his crippled son Aremil, who's with Evord's army), and the duke of Marlier, who hasn't been involved in the war up to this point. But the Emperor of Tormalin is making threatening noises of intervening. The next book should be interesting, whenever it appears.
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