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A Blade of Black Steel

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Little, Brown Book Group 2016Description: 536pISBN:
  • 9780356505688
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  • F/MAR
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The sequel to Alex Marshall's A Crown for Cold Silver, an epic adventure featuring an unforgettable female warrior. After five hundred years, the Sunken Kingdom has returned, and brought with it a monstrous secret that threatens to destroy every country on the Star. As an inhuman army gathers on its shores, poised to invade the Immaculate Isles, the members of the Cobalt Company face an ugly choice: abandon their dreams of glory and vengeance to combat a menace from another realm, or pursue their ambitions and hope the Star is still there when the smoke clears. Five villains. One legendary general. A battle for survival.

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Library Journal Review

In a sequel to 2015's marvelous A Crown for Cold Silver, members of General Zosia's Cobalt Company must decide whether they will pursue an old vengeance or fight a new inhuman enemy.-MM © Copyright 2016. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Kirkus Book Review

A lot of people move from various points A to points B, several dying gruesomely in the process, in the action-packed middle volume of the Crimson Empire trilogy.It is only because the Crimson Empire's army was betrayed from within that Gen. (formerly Princess) Ji-hyeon's considerably smaller Cobalt Company still survives. But now, fresh Crimson forces approach, and Ji-hyeon's only hope is to negotiate an alliance to fight their true mutual enemy, the Burnished Chain. Former rebel and Crimson Queen Zosia is challenging Ji-hyeon's leadership. The mercenary Maroto has been kidnapped to the newly raised island of Jex Toth, where he confronts hideous monsters and the crew of a wrecked pirate ship. Meanwhile, Maroto's friends and his angry nephew, Sullen, go in search of him, pursued by Sullen's mother, Best, who's convinced that she must kill Sullen and Maroto to restore her homeland's disturbed weather. In the city of Diadem, the Black Pope of the Burnished Chain has usurped the Crimson Empire's Queen Indsorith's throne, condemned the ex-ruler to imprisonment and torture, and rallied a fleet to establish a new divine rule upon the continent of the Star. And among them all darts the treacherous sorcerer Hoartrap the Touch, lying and stirring up trouble and catastrophic magic, pursuing his own mysterious, but obviously deadly, agenda. Clearly, many storylines are launched here, but they don't seem to be doing much to propel the larger story forward, and the splintered plots make it somewhat difficult to keep track of everyone and everything that's happened. Every small part is exciting and involving in the moment, but the end of the first book (A Crown for Cold Silver, 2015) suggested we might be experiencing more apocalypse at this point.Decidedly a middle volume, serving mainly to put the characters in place to enact the finale, whatever it might be. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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