Bloody Rose: The Band, Book Two

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And then—speaking of dark paths—there’s Rose herself, who’s gone and gotten herself a habit. Before every fight, she swallows Lion’s Leaf to bolster her courage, and “there [are] side effects (addiction not least among them).” Alas, the leaves only give her false courage, and Rose will need real steel if she’s to stand the slightest chance of surviving the hellish events ahead. “A rampaging Horde, a vengeful giant, a ruthless druin sorceress, and her undead Simurg” really might be the least of her problems.

Bloody Rose solidifies what Kings of the Wyld proved. Eames writes like a hurricane and has a voice like no one else in this genre' Sam Sykes When the biggest mercenary band of all rolls into town, led by the infamous Bloody Rose, Tam jumps at the chance to sign on as their bard. It's adventure she wants-and adventure she gets as the crew embark on a quest that will end in one of two ways: glory or death. Tam the bard and narrator has the most character development in this book, she changed from the village girl to something much more, the new her is beyond amazing. Confident and experienced no longer naive. Hey, did you hear the news? There's another Horde, apparently. North of Cragmoor, in the Brumal Wastes. Fifty thousand monsters hell-bent on invading Grandual." pg 5You may have loved a first book and be excited to get your hands on the second one, but I do believe that it’s after #2 that the connection is sealed. Meeting « Book 2 » is kinda like a date. When the first date was brilliant, don’t you wish that the second date would measure up to it, or even better, exceed it? What is an amazing first date when a second one is a botch? Eames once again hits the perfect balance of humor and heart, irreverent references and real emotion’ Django Wexler Speaking of the characters, I’ve gotta give a shoutout to the ancillary cast again. I just love the way that Eames writes his side characters. They’re allowed to grow, and expand over the course of the story, rather than laying it all out for the readers at the beginning. Cura and Brune (I love him lots by the way) respectively both received really gorgeous character growth as the story moved along, confronting childhood trauma so that they could better handle the present dangers in the world. Summary: Bloody Rose was a good book that is good for the fans of books with bands and mercenaries. There is a whole cast of new characters with good pacing and some humor. some feel book 1 is better and some think this one is, you have to try to find out but nonetheless, I enjoyed both! Cura - Inkwitch / Summoner, and my favorite character in the entire book. Cura’s sexuality is never completely stated, but she does like girls (I’m secretly hoping, wishing, and thinking that she’s pan)! She wields a trio of knives, but her powers are so much more than that. Also, I love playing summoners in D&D! On top of Cura’s amazing personality and banter? I seriously have the biggest crush on this fictional character.

That evil thrives on division. It stokes the embers of pride and prejudice until they become an inferno that might one day devour us all.” Bloody Rose proves once again to be another fun escapism at the highest level just like its predecessor. A new dawn of fantasy is on the horizon and at this rate, I have no doubt Nicholas Eames will be one of the new leading authors; in my eyes, he already is. There’s still one more book left in the trilogy but it’s never too soon for me to say that this will most likely become one of my favorite trilogies of all time by its conclusion; it already is.Unfortunately, as far as I'm concerned, Tam is just not very interesting or charismatic. Then again, neither is Rose. I didn't much care for Rose or her issues. She's so desperate to move out of her famous father's shadow but every move and decision she makes is, in some way, a response to her father and his reputation. So the only person keeping her in his shadow is her, and I don't feel any sympathy for her over that. Freecloud doesn't rate much better. He's a first class idiot who should've left her to her self-destructive ways and got his ass home to be a proper father to their little girl. She's the one who really needed him. I felt nothing at his death-by-stupidity demise. While Cura and Brune are slightly more interesting it doesn't make up for the fact that the band as a whole is merely a group of enablers who let Rose get away with being a self-destructive, selfish ass. This is a pretty cool stratagem and makes sense a Retributor Squad costs more as they have some serious weaponry to fire. New Warlord Trait & Relic