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Traitor's Blade (Greatcoats #1)

Sebastien de Castell

Start date: July 12, 2017

Finish date: July 31, 2017

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Oct 23, 2017 Lesa Divine rated it really liked it

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4.5 I so enjoyed this story. For this to be part 1 omg had me like wow. I already have part 2, 3 and 4. I so wanna know where these characters go after this first book.

Loved Falcio, Kest and Brasti friendship. Love how they were there for one another. The are Greatcoats set to put order in the lands by the king. But once their King is killed and the Greatcoats banned they took jobs as they could until they're framed for murder and from there they're mission on surviving while fighting takes off. ...more

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Sep 05, 2020 Lorenzo rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I love it whenever I find a series that catches me from the beginning. I had never heard of author Sebastien de Castell and this series cobsisting of 4 books. A booktuber I like a lot (Mike's Book Reviews) decided to do q group readalong to the series and I decided to join in.

I love it when I'm pleasantly surprised. The story deals with a group of magisters or traveling judges called Greatcoats thatvused to enforce the Kibg's law. Since that time, for political reasons, they were disbanded and n ...more

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