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The Two of Swords: Volume Three

By K. J. Parker
The Two of Swords: Volume Three by K. J. Parker digital book - Fable

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'Skilful plotting and rich scene-setting' - GUARDIAN

'Parker's skilful control of pacing, expert rendering of characters, and subtle sense of humour add depth and believability' - Library Journal

A soldier with a gift for archery. A woman who kills without care. Two brothers, both unbeatable generals, now fighting for opposing armies. No one in the vast and once glorious United Empire remains untouched by the rift between East and West, and the war has been fought for as long as anyone can remember. Some still survive who know how it was started, but no one knows how it will end. Except, perhaps, the Two of Swords.

The third and final volume of a sweeping and ingeniously plotted epic fantasy from the World Fantasy Award-winning author K. J. Parker and his most ambitious work to date. This is a story of a war on a grand scale, told through the eyes of soldiers, politicians, victims and heroes.

Books by K.J. Parker:

Fencer Trilogy
The Colours in the Steel
The Belly of the Bow
The Proof House

Scavenger Trilogy
Shadow
Pattern
Memory

Engineer Trilogy
Devices and Desires
Evil for Evil
The Escapement

Saloninus
Blue and Gold
The Devil You Know

Two of Swords
The Two of Swords: Part 1
The Two of Swords: Part 2
The Two of Swords: Part 3

Novels
The Company
The Folding Knife
The Hammer
Sharps
Savages
Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City
My Beautiful Life

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“The political maneuverings of the Song of Ice and Fire series are personal -- conniving, familial, vindictive -- and familiar enough in readers thinking of political fantasy to set an expectation. Important to grasp here is how impersonal the machinations of the Two of Sword series appear in contrast, particularly in this final volume, and how truer this feels to those at the mercy of power. Wars between the East and West (each army led by a brother, Senza and Forza, respectively) turn on a slow, grand scale -- until, as the saying goes, they happen all at once -- but where Ice & Fire uses the drama of interpersonal relationships to give the grand its scale, Parker does the reverse: the epic scale of the conflict shows how petty the brothers have become, how minuscule they see the lives of others as told through those lives -- how, as one of the brothers notes, like a competitive chess game it has all become. The series is full of fine, in places beautiful, writing: it is witty, insightful, emotional, clever, and rich with character and gesture. I wonder if better worldbuilding has been done. At the end of Two of Swords, I want nothing more than to jump into another novel by this author, and make sure I never miss another.”

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