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Promise of Blood (Powder Mage, #1)

Brian McClellan

Start date: June 1, 2014

Finish date: July 1, 2014

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May 26, 2014 Veronica Belmont rated it it was amazing

Shelves: sword-and-laser

Saving my full review for the episode at the end of June! But clearly, I enjoyed it.

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Dec 22, 2016 mina rated it really liked it · review of another edition

After reading (and infatuated with) Django Wexler's Shadow Campaigns series, I think the series has set a high bar of fun and quality for military fantasy fiction (not that I read military fantasy before and after this series, so my judgment is obviously biased here). But then another Goodreads fellow member seems really like the Powder Mage series, I think this series deserves a try, although I am already turned off by the cover. Boy, I am glad I tried this one. I like this series in a differen ...more

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Jul 16, 2015 Melani rated it it was ok

Shelves: dnf, epic-fantasy

DNF. French Revolution with magic and gods. But unlike Django Wexler, McClellan changes almost nothing about the revolution, so there are not clever twists on various characters. Tamiel (I think, god keeping these characters straight was a challenge) is Napoleon. Nothing clever or witty about the premise then.

The plot didn't interest me. There were hints of things to come that might have been interesting if I could plod through the book, however there was nothing to pull me through the boring st ...more

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