Winner of the 2015 David Gemmell Award for Best Fantasy Debut. An explosive fantasy debut, The Emperor's Blades by Brian Staveley is a fast-paced, thrilling epic. If you like Joe Abercrombie and George R. R. Martin, you'll love this. 'Will keep you turning the pages late at night' - Pierce Brown, Sunday Times bestselling author of Red Rising The circle is closing. The stakes are high. And old truths will live again . . . The Emperor has been murdered, leaving the Annurian Empire in turmoil. Now his progeny must prepare to ...
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Winner of the 2015 David Gemmell Award for Best Fantasy Debut. An explosive fantasy debut, The Emperor's Blades by Brian Staveley is a fast-paced, thrilling epic. If you like Joe Abercrombie and George R. R. Martin, you'll love this. 'Will keep you turning the pages late at night' - Pierce Brown, Sunday Times bestselling author of Red Rising The circle is closing. The stakes are high. And old truths will live again . . . The Emperor has been murdered, leaving the Annurian Empire in turmoil. Now his progeny must prepare to unmask a conspiracy. His son Valyn, training for the empire's deadliest fighting force, hears the news an ocean away. And after several 'accidents' and a dying soldier's warning, he realizes his life is also in danger. Yet before Valyn can act, he must survive the mercenaries' brutal final initiation. The Emperor's daughter, Minister Adare, hunts her father's murderer in the capital. Court politics can be fatal, but she needs justice. Lastly Kaden, heir to the empire, studies in a remote monastery. Here, the Blank God's disciples teach their harsh ways, which Kaden must master to unlock ancient powers. But when an imperial delegation arrives, has he learnt enough to keep him alive, as long-hidden powers make their move? 'A vividly imagined story of conspiracy and empire' - Col Buchanan 'A fantastic and compelling fantasy world' - Io9 The Emperor's Blades is the first novel in Brain Staveley's epic Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne series. Continue the story with The Providence of Fire.
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Very entertaining yet predictable fantasy, although I have to admit, I didn't see Adare's twist coming. Anyway, I came here from Skullsworn, and I have to say, the strongest asset with the Unhewn Throne is the very interesting world-building. The Emperor's Blades, however was great, but imo not as solid as Skullsworn. The novel is still adventurous, sad at times, and soooooo quotably eloquent. It kept me at attention for the majority of it, despite the predictability of some of the plot. The characters were very solid, albeit dumb at times. I knew that Skullsworn was a prequel diving into Pyrre's story more, but I do absolutely love how involved Pyrre Lakatur is towards the end of this book. She is one of my favorite fantasy characters at this point, and getting to read about her during the events of this book made me so happy. It was especially fun, having known the events of the prequel before taking a crack at this book.
I had mostly two big objections beside the predictability. Adare felt mostly absent throughout the book in comparison to the role her brothers played, her part mostly being a smidge of political intrigue and a good twist added into the plot. Secondly, Valyn is perhaps the dumbest character ever for being one of the supposedly best trained soldiers/assassins of the empire, but whatever, his story is still quite entertaining and hopefully he redeems himself throughout the series. Overall though, really good fantasy epic and a definite favorite.