Against a Rising Tide: The Powers Book 3

by Alma T.C. Boykin, Saul Bottcher (Illustrator)

The World War has ended. The battles rage on.Five years after the end of the World War, men, Half-Dragons and True-Dragons labor to repair the damage. The English and French insist on punishing the nations of the Habsburg Confederation and Germany, while nationalists and Communists threaten to tear the alliance and the Houses apart from within. As chaos swirls and tensions rise, István Eszterházy and Archduke Rudolph von Habsburg struggle to preserve order, and to preserve both Houses and Powers. Worse, an old enemy from the war stalks István, intent on revenge.But true danger lurks to the east. The forces that destroyed Galicia threaten to devour all of the Powers and Houses, killing the very soil of the land as they do. As another war rages, István and Rudolph must hide the secret of the Powers from forces more terrible than the Mongols and ottomans combined.

Genres: Fantasy

298 pages, Paperback

Published November 18, 2018

Reviews

[Red Tide · Rating 5 out of 5]

More complete characters

The characters felt more complete and central to the story rather than in the previous books. It was probably the distraction of trying to understand the nature of true dragons and the powers.

I love the solid historical underpinning of all her books. This book is no different in that regard. I still want to find out the origins of the dragons, half dragons and powers.

[Bill · Rating 5 out of 5]

This has been an excellent historical fiction series. I thought the fantasy elements, powers and dragons, emphasized the relationships among the 'great houses' and highlighted, in particular, the patriotism of István Eszterházy.