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The Invisible Hands - Part 1: Gambit (Dark Tales of Randamor the Recluse, #4)
by Andrew Ashling (Goodreads Author)
by Andrew Ashling (Goodreads Author)
Great book. Not m/m romance, but traditional political fantasy sprinkled with m/m relationships.
The writing is this book is a vast improvement over Ashling's first two in the series. There is no longer any cringe factor, and instead I just got to submerge myself in the intricate plotting.
Rullio was a huge fave of mine from his supporting role in book 2, and I would have read this just for his burgeoning relationship with Merw, which made me inordinately happy (although, going on past experience I can't put it past Ashling to kill Merw off down the road.) I actually laughed out loud for Merw's first scenes, which is a very rare event.
It was a sign of the Ashling ability to portray complex characters that, while in book one I was all "Yay, Anaxantis! Boo, Tenaxos!", after this book I like Anaxantis and Tenaxos equally, for completely different reasons. Not sure I can take the tension of the next two books: will they duke it out in this trilogy? Or is this all going to be set-up for a final conflict later? Or will the brothers band together? Sheesh, the stress.
P.S. I definitely never want to live in a post-apocalyptic wasteland with Ashling as my local warlord: he has the most vivid imagination for torture techniques.
The writing is this book is a vast improvement over Ashling's first two in the series. There is no longer any cringe factor, and instead I just got to submerge myself in the intricate plotting.
Rullio was a huge fave of mine from his supporting role in book 2, and I would have read this just for his burgeoning relationship with Merw, which made me inordinately happy (although, going on past experience I can't put it past Ashling to kill Merw off down the road.) I actually laughed out loud for Merw's first scenes, which is a very rare event.
It was a sign of the Ashling ability to portray complex characters that, while in book one I was all "Yay, Anaxantis! Boo, Tenaxos!", after this book I like Anaxantis and Tenaxos equally, for completely different reasons. Not sure I can take the tension of the next two books: will they duke it out in this trilogy? Or is this all going to be set-up for a final conflict later? Or will the brothers band together? Sheesh, the stress.
P.S. I definitely never want to live in a post-apocalyptic wasteland with Ashling as my local warlord: he has the most vivid imagination for torture techniques.
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I'm kind of scared to continue this series. I don't like "non-sweet romance" *sobs
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Ayanna wrote: "I'm kind of scared to continue this series. I don't like "non-sweet romance" *sobs"There's some really sweet couples coming up though.
Re the vivid imagination for torture, (view spoiler), just found it also in this book! As a punishment for gayness.. :(
...I've read this book called The History of Torture. Does that count?(My favorite is probably scaphism). Meh, but it was annoying because none of it was really what I was looking for, per se. They were all generally tortures to the death and I was searching for tortures in more of an interrogative capacity.
