Saint's Blood

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By Sebastien de Castell

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'High energy, highly unique, swashbuckling-cop-epic-noir story. Buy it. BUY IT NOW' Sam Sykes

The Three Musketeers meets Joe Abercrombie via Mark Lawrence. The Greatcoats are back - and this time it's personal.

How do you kill a Saint? Falcio, Brasti and Kest are about to find out, as someone is doing just that, and they've started with a friend.

The Dukes were already looking for ways to weasel out of their promise to put Aline on her father's throne - but with Saints turning up dead, and Church Inquistitors pushing for control - rumours are spreading that the Gods themselves oppose her ascension.

The only way Falcio can stop the country turning into a vicious theocracy is to find and stop the Saint-killer - but his only clue is the iron mask encasing the head of the Saint of Mercy, which prevents her from speaking. And even if he can find the murderer, he will still have to face them in battle - and this may be a duel that no swordsman, no matter how skilled, can win.

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“I had the opportunity to continue the Greatcoats series by Sebastien de Castell with book three Saint's Blood in May. I will of course give my usual breakdown below but long story short, this is becoming one of my favorite series of all time. This was my second five star rating in a row for this series. And that is still barely an uptick from the four and a half star I gave book one. The Pacing was fast paced with a good mix of ebb and flow. This wasn't non-stop action by any means but I never felt like I was slogging through unnecessary information at any point in the story. I'm still continuing the series with the audio narration performed by Joe Jameson who is just nailing this story for me. As usual no issues with names of characters or places in Saint's Blood. Sebastien does such a good job in making sure a lot of emotion is present within his stories. His style in this series is just clicking so well for me. The World Building continues to be top notch. I find often realize I catch myself immersed deeply in this world and it's story as I'm listening to Joe's narration. This world continues to be one that is struggling not only to survive but to find it's path to destiny. Since book one the characters are constantly doing what they can to protect the ones they care about as well as keep the heartbeat of their country alive. We still have plenty of factions whether it's the different royal families or in this one a more prevalent inclusion of the church. We continue to learn more about the history of this world as the story goes on as well which is always a bonus. The Character Development is where this book and series continues to shine for me. None of these characters are perfect by any means. They all have their flaws. One thing that I love that this author does though is always at least allowing for a bit of hope no matter how bad things seem to be. One of my favorite parts in this story is when the surviving Greatcoats get some new names or designations near the end of the read. It just seemed like one of those moments where you get the feeling things are making a turn toward something new. If I had to pick a series to compare this to, I'd have to go with Michael J. Sullivan's The Riyria Revelations which is another favorite series of mine. I only have one more full length novel left in this series, then I do plan on reading the fifth book which is a collection of Greatcoats tales then finally trying to get my hands on two prequel short stories if I can find them. Overall, I'm still continuing to absolute love this series. I've gotten so immersed into the story, world and characters at this point. I actually picked up book 5 on sale from Audible just this morning. I figured I'd get to it sooner or later but I wasn't sure when since it sounds like a collection of Greatcoat stories rather than the usual novel format. I figured I might as well grab it while it's on sale. I also noticed a friend from a buddy read Discord server recently shared a book that is within the same world if not a continuation, so I'll need to keep an eye out for that along with Sebastien's other series he already has out there. As with previous mentions for recommendations, if you like your fantasy stories to have plenty of emotion, action, adventure and swashbuckling fun, you must check out Greatcoats!”

Lisa

Created 3 months ago

About Sebastien de Castell

Sebastien de Castell had just finished a degree in Archaeology when he started work on his first dig. Four hours later he realised how much he actually hated archaeology and left to pursue a very focused career as a musician, ombudsman, interaction designer, fight choreographer, teacher, project manager, actor and product strategist. His only defence against the charge of unbridled dilettantism is that he genuinely likes doing these things and that, in one way or another, each of these fields plays a role in his writing. He sternly resists the accusation of being a Renaissance Man in the hopes that more people will label him that way.

Sebastien's acclaimed swashbuckling fantasy series The Greatcoats was shortlisted for the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Fantasy. the Gemmell Morningstar Award for Best Debut, the Prix Imaginales for Best Foreign Work and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. His YA fantasy series Spellslinger was nominated for the Carnegie Medal and is published in more than a dozen languages.

Sebastien lives in Vancouver, Canada with his lovely wife and two belligerent cats.

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