Bastard's Honor
Daindreth's Assassin
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Elisabeth Wheatley
About this listen
A crippled knight.
A widowed sorceress.
And a second chance at love—and revenge.
Born a noblewoman's bastard, Thadred has risen to become High Inquisitor, tasked with hunting escaped cythraul demons across the land. Despite the injuries that left him maimed for life, he has become indispensable to the empire.
Sair was a widowed sorceress who has become one of the Empress Amira's most trusted emissaries and confidantes. A skilled healer and spy, Sair works to ensure peace wherever the empress sends her.
A year ago, Thadred and Sair helped save the world from a fallen goddess, but it's not safe just yet. Unrest ripples through the empire, stray demons lurk in the shadows, and the denizens of a defeated witch still linger.
Now one of those denizens has taken Sair's young son.
Worse, they soon realize the boy's abduction may have more to do with the cythraul demons than anyone thought. Something evil is at work, and Thadred and Sair must stop it before it rains terror on the unsuspecting empire.
Bastard's Honor is a second-chance Fantasy Romance that takes place after the events of the Daindreth's Assassin series. It will contain heavy spoilers for the Daindreth's Assassin series, but can be listened to separately.
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The main characters, Thadred and Sair, are fun and engaging. And Lleuad, the stalwart kelpie, is absolutely endearing and funny.
The writing style is more relaxed compared to the main series, and has many more interesting turns of phrase, either funny or apt - or both.
No flaws then? Well, the plotting all-too-frequently leaves holes large enough to drive a team of horses and a carriage through. A rewrite or three would have fixed that. [Spoilers ahead] For example: when the captured Kadra’han is liberated by what very obviously must be a cythraul, this fact is promptly completely ignored by everyone — including the main character Thadred, the “High Inquisitor, tasked with hunting escaped cythraul demons across the land” — until, to everyone’s utter astonishment, the cythraul shows up in the middle of the plot at a later point. Then there’s Caa Iss being able to kill the Istovari matriarch despite being incorporeal, when the Daindreth saga has been clear on the point that cythraul without hosts can’t personally harm humans. Another plot hole is when Caa Iss and his Kadra’han flee the ancient temple and leave the captive children behind, only to attack the Governor’s palace in order to regain the children ... instead of just bringing the children along in the first place![//spoilers] And so on.
The author’s reading has become generally nice, and sometimes very good.
A fast paced romp
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Fantastic fantasy
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