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p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Arial; color: #444444; -webkit-text-stroke: #444444} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} "Skillful worldbuilding and nuanced characters."―Library Journal (starred review)"Fans of McClellan's Powder Mage trilogy will be happy to return to this fascinating fantasy world, where magic and technology come together in the midst of complicated relationships and unsure alliances . . . . [A] compelling read."―RT Book Reviews"Furious, visceral, and relentlessly thrilling action."―Kirkus"McClellan continues to expand and build on the interesting and engaging world of his previous trilogy while also providing an exciting and fast-paced new story that even those new to the series will enjoy immensely."―Booklist"In Sins of Empire, Brian McClellan returns to the world of his Powder Mage trilogy for a novel that is equal parts military adventure and spy tale, and succeeds wildly on both counts."―Barnes and Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog"This book is just plain awesome. I found myself enjoying every moment of it. Innovative magic, quick-paced plot, interesting world. I had a blast."―New York Times bestselling author, Brandon Sanderson on Promise of Blood"Promise of Blood is a hugely promising debut. Guns, swords, and magic together? What more could you want? How about tense action, memorable characters, rising stakes, and cool, cool magic? Not only the finest flintlock fantasy I've read, but also the most fun. Brian McClellan is the real thing."―New York Times bestseller Brent Weeks on Promise of Blood"Brings a welcome breath of gunpowder-tinged air to epic fantasy."―Anthony Ryan on Promise of Blood "The world of the privileged sorcerers and the strange abilities of the powder mages who can manipulate gunpowder are just as well drawn in this captivating universe."―RT Book Reviews (4 1/2 stars) on Promise of Blood"McClellan's debut packs some serious heat.... A thoroughly satisfying yarn that should keep readers waiting impatiently for further installments."―Kirkus (Starred Review) on Promise of Blood
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About the Author
Brian McClellan is an American epic fantasy author from Cleveland, Ohio. He is known for his acclaimed Powder Mage Universe and essays on the life and business of being a writer.Brian now lives on the side of a mountain in Utah with his wife, Michele, where he writes books and nurses a crippling video game addiction.
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Product details
Series: Gods of Blood and Powder (Book 1)
Paperback: 640 pages
Publisher: Orbit; Reprint edition (November 28, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0316407224
ISBN-13: 978-0316407229
Product Dimensions:
5.6 x 1.9 x 8.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.7 out of 5 stars
182 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#61,899 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Mr. McClellan gives us another terrific story and brings back some of the fun characters in is book. Some new characters have been added and they live up to the standards set in the previous series.However, as I read this book there was something nagging at me that wasn't quite right for the world that had been previously set out for us in the Powder Mage series. It didn't take long for me to pinpoint the problems but they kept popping up and disrupting the world I had known and loved. It was a little sad for me as the original series had established a world that I very much enjoyed and it took a goodly percentage of the book to engross me enough in the storyline so that these differences nagged less at me.The first is the swearing. It's Earth-style swearing. One of the fun things in the first series was the invention of a different style of swearing that still got the point across, in much the same way the TV show Firefly invented colloquialisms that fascinated and caused one to pay close attention to the dialog to both figure out what the words were and then what they meant. It was like somebody seriously broke the First Contact rules and added a bunch of new vocabulary to the indiginous species since the last book.The other problem was in a similar vein. That was the repeated use of modern Earth sayings and expressions. I hesitate to call Mr. McClellan lazy in his writing. He did, after all, write the entire first series without overdoing either of these problems. It just made me a little sad in that these detracted from the wonderful universe that had been established for me.So, overall I'd give this book five stars for the story but only two-three stars for the writing. Having the characters speak differently seemed to bleed over into causing the characters to act a little differently and it just changed the feel of the universe for me, and not in a good way.Will I continue to buy the new series? Possibly, but it's not the same. It's like series from the 60s, 70s and 80s scifi where an author would die or opt out and the publisher would bring in someone like Larry Niven to finish up the story arc. That's it: it's more like Mr. McClelland outlined the story and someone else came in to write the book. See the first Mitch Rapp book after Vince Flynn passed away for an example except that, in this case, I can see no reason for a ghost writer to be brought in.
With Sins of Empire, Brian McClellan cements himself as one of the brightest young stars writing fantasy today. The Powder Mage trilogy was no fluke. The magic systems are inventive and cool, the setting refreshing, and McClellan writes big battle scenes better than just about anyone.Sins of Empire is the first book in the Gods of Blood and Powder series, a sequel series to The Powder Mage trilogy. There is really no reason not to start with the Powder Mage trilogy, but Sins of Empire is an easily accessible entre into McClellan’s world. It takes place a continent away and ten years after the events of the Powder Mage trilogy. One of the minor characters from the first series—Vlora—is now a major POV character, and other characters from the first series show up, but you don’t need to know who they are to enjoy the book.I’m going to spend some time talking about the setting. I complained in my review of Promise of Blood that the setting was a little too generic-Europe. A change in venue solves that. The tech is that of the late-1700s/early-1800s. As in our world, it is a time of revolutions. A French Revolution-esque revolution in Adro served as the setting for the first series. Sins of Empire takes place in Fatrasta, another continent and a former colony of Kez (the country serving as an antagonist in the first series), that won its independence roughly ten years ago as well. Landfall is the capital city. Most of the action takes place there. The residents are largely Kressian (i.e., tracing this ancestry back to Kez), but there is a large Palo population. The Palo are distinctly red-headed and freckled and draw heavily from both Native American and Irish history. Fatrasta more generally isn’t easily tied to a real world equivalent, although comparisons to the United States and Singapore seem most natural.There are three major/POV characters. The first is Vlora. As I mentioned, she was a minor character in the Powder Mage trilogy. Since the events of that series, she left the Adran army, taking the cream of the crop to form the Riflejack mercenary company. Notably, this includes Olem, Tamas’ primary aide from the first series. The book opens with the Riflejacks having re-seized a fort on the frontier. Wooden frontier forts aren’t much against canons, but Vlora is disconcerted to find a body garbed in swamp dragon (gator) leathers and bone axes. A body surrounded by dozens of dead from her company. The mystery of the dragonmen will be a key plot point when the Riflejacks head back to Landfall to take a job hunting down a Palo insurgent. Vlora is a powder mage. That is, she has magical abilities tied to gunpowder. Snorting gunpowder gives her super strength, reflexes, senses, etc. She can detonate powder. Or fire an early modern rifle accurately at distances of over a mile. We didn’t get to see much of Vlora in the first series, but I’m glad to see her come into her own here. Vlora is the biggest tie to the old series—she still wears the scars, physical and otherwise, from the revolution.The other two POV characters are new. The first is Ben Styke. Mad Ben Styke, that is, formerly of the Mad Lancers, heroes of the Fatrastan revolution. Currently of a labor camp just outside of Landfall. He’s not the man he used to be. Surviving a firing squad—twice!—will do that to a man. He has a crippled hand and walks with a limp. But he’s still 6-and-a-half feet tall and a killer. He has powerful enemies seeking to ensure he never leaves, but a lawyer named Tampo gets him out and gives him a job.“So,†Styke said. “Who do you want me to kill?â€â€œHave you ever heard of Lady Vlora Flint?†Tampo asked.McClellan was right. Mad Ben Styke is my favorite character. The final POV character, on the other hand, was a disappointment. But then, for a spy like Michel, being forgettable is a feature, not a bug. Michel is a member of the Blackhats, the secret police that help keep the Lady Chancellor in power and the people in Landfall in line. They’re not very good at being secret, what with their distinctive bowlers and all, but whatever. Michel is tasked by Fidelis Jes—the head of the Blackhats and the chief antagonist for the book—with serving as Vlora’s Blackhat liaison and with hunting down the man responsible for using Blackhat badges to print propaganda pamphlets. His investigation quickly leads him to Tampo. That should allow for ample overlap between Michel’s and Vlora’s and Styke’s storylines, but there was less than I would have liked.Things immediately begin to fall apart. Promise of Blood started off with a bang—revolution and mass murder. Sins of Empire starts off on a slow burn. McClellan introduces several mysteries and lets them slowly unfold. This is a writer confident in his storytelling abilities. There will be several twists along the way, along with some action. And, of course, we will see a large scale battle before it is all said and done. One heck of a battle.
It has been some time since I read the original Powder Mage trilogy, but I remember I really liked them and therefore I instantly pre-ordered Sins of Empire as soon as it turned up on Amazon. But somehow I waited until now with reading this, because, you know, there was always something getting ahead it in the list like there was series' to finish and other pre-orders arriving, and such. And now, I'm really glad I waited because I really like how this new trilogy starts, and I love the characters, old and returning and I think it won't be too much of a spoiler, but as the first book in a trilogy, the story ends on quite a cliffhanger. And because I waited I now only have to wait until May for the next book, which is almost bearable.If you liked the original Powder Mage trilogy or at least the universe it's set in, you should definitely read this one as well. I may say that up to this point, this is the best Powder Mage book.Solid 5 stars, no roundups.
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