But she can't let the same happen to their little boy, so she smuggles him out in the hope find a safe place for him and to start a new life of her own. Nila finds herself confronted with soldiers killing her noble employers one night. Soon it becomes clear that overthrowing the monarchy was just the beginning. Great spectacle all power chords but no shift in tone on dynamics. It moved at a breakneck pace and you are never too far away from any action.
Taniel, the Field Marshal's son and a talented powder mage, who is able to consume gunpowder to give himself supernatural powers, is given the task to hunt down an uncommonly powerful member of the Royal Cabal who managed to escape during the coup. The book read more like movie than a novel. Meanwhile, Tamas is busy with purging the country's nobility and struggling to maintain peace during the inevitable civil war. When he kills every single member of the Royal Cabal, they all utter the same mysterious phrase: "You can't break Kresimir's Promise".Īdamat, a former police inspector who is now a private investigator, is asked by Tamas to help solve the mystery. In need of work, he responds, only to find the coup has already happened. His old general, Tamas, has called him back into service.
McClellan presents Adro through the eyes of Adamant, a retired investigator whose taken up as a freelancer. A former police investigator, who now does the same thing for private clients (not the only similarity to our modern world, more on those later) is called to the palace and discovers the aftermath of the coup. Field Marshal Tamas, commander of the Adran Army, has just committed a brutal coup against Adro's monarchy. Promise of Blood reads like the French Revolution crossed with Lightbringer. Promise of Blood starts off tossing the reader right into the middle of a mystery.
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