Blood in the Water

by Juliet E. McKenna

Book Overview

The revolutionary forces throughout Lescar attempt to gather influence and maintain order as their cause advances. With their forces gathered, the revolutionary leaders within Lescar begin their bid... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1844168417
• ISBN13: 9781844168415
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Solaris
• Length: 658 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

A sequel to beat the first book

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.