• Review

    Blog Tour: Saint’s Blood – Greatcoats #3 – Sebastien de Castell + Competition!

        Release date: April 7th, 2016 Publisher: Jo Fletcher Books Age Group: Adult Pages: 576 Format: Hardcover Source: Received from the publisher in exchange for an honest review How do you kill a Saint? Falcio, Kest, and Brasti are about to find out, because someone has figured out a way to do it and they’ve started with a friend. The Dukes were already looking for ways out of their agreement to put Aline on the throne, but with the Saints turning up dead, rumours are spreading that the Gods themselves oppose her ascension. Now churches are looking to protect themselves by bringing back the military orders of religious soldiers, assassins, and (especially) Inquisitors – a…

  • Review

    Knight’s Shadow – Greatcoats #2 – Sebastien de Castell

    Release date: March 5th, 2015 Publisher: Jo Fletcher Books Age Group: Adult Pages: 606 Format: Hardcover Source: Received from the publisher in exchange for an honest review Tristia is a nation overcome by intrigue and corruption. The idealistic young King Paelis is dead and the Greatcoats – legendary travelling magistrates who brought justice to the Kingdom – have been branded as traitors. But just before his head was impaled on a spike, the King swore each of his hundred and forty-four Greatcoats to a different mission. Falcio Val Mond, First Cantor, with the help of fellow Greatcoats Kest and Brasti, has completed his King’s final task: he has found his Charoites – well, one at least, and…

  • Spotlight

    Spotlight: ‘Knight’s Shadow’ by Sebastien de Castell

    So much excitement! Last year, ‘Traitor’s Blade’ was announced with a pretty big marketing campaign that made many of us quite curious about de Castell as a debut author. After reading it I could only agree that ‘Traitor’s Blade’ is indeed a great book and that de Castell would be high on all ‘best debut authors’ lists at the end of the year. ‘Traitor’s Blade’ did get a lot of love in the blogging community and I hope it has spread far beyond that. On the 5th of March the second book in the Greatcoats series, ‘Knight’s Shadow’, will be published by Jo Fletcher Books, and I honestly can’t wait…