The Traitor

By: Anthony Ryan

Narrated by: Steven Brand

In this “gritty, heart-pounding” (John Gwynne) conclusion to the New York Times bestselling fantasy trilogy, The Covenant of Steel, Alwyn must make a difficult decide between his heart and his morals as he prepares for his final battle.

It’s been a long journey for Alwyn Scribe. Born a bastard and raised an outlaw, he’s now a knight and the most trusted advisor to Lady Evadine Courlain. Together they’ve won countless battles and helped to bring order to a fractured kingdom. Yet Evadine is not the woman Alwyn once knew. As puritanical fury increasingly replaces her benevolent faith, Alwyn begins to question what her true motives really are. As the kingdom braces itself for one final battle, Alwyn’s conscience fights its own war with his heart. Now, more than ever, he must decide whose side he’s really on.

"This makes a rich treat for George R. R. Martin fans." —Publishers Weekly (starred review) on The Pariah

©2023 Anthony Ryan (P)2023 Orbit

Very enjoyable series

A great ending to a well written series. I will say that I felt there were a few too many filler battles. I understand the need to show the scourges effects. I just wish there had been a better way to show how these atrocities developed from a person believing she did holy work. Though I understand it would of likely needed another POV to do this, which was not possible. To me, everything else about this book was masterfully done and well worth my credit.
A great narrator.
I find it interesting that this book should come into our hands at a time in the real world where we have just witnessed rape and brutal murder of innocent people by the hands of people who think they are doing holy work. The fact that the ripples of hatred and evil thought and deed continue in our very own colleges and cities as I write this truly frightens me and adds greater weight to this story.
It is almost as if the malicite truly exists.

Loved every bit of it!

This was a perfect ending. I was very invested in the story and characters. The ending was worthy of both!

Amazing story

Did not see the any of the twists and turns this story took. Such a great story!

A good ending to a trilogy

I found this book just like the rest of the trilogy action packed as the battle scenes and descriptions made it easy to envision this tale. The trilogy was nicely summed up without feeling of being rushed..

Excellent Trilogy

A little slow at the beginning but gathered speed & interest quickly & maintained it for all 3 books in the series -

Great

Great as always a a a a a a a a a a a a h u I

4.5 Stars 🌟

4.5 Stars 🌟

This was one of these books that is the culmination of a huge saga. Unfortunately for someone like me who reads so many books, by the time I get to this book, there have been hundreds of books in between this book and the last book in the series. That is something that I struggle to deal with. Fortunately, it wasn't as difficult as I was thinking it was going to be. The details of the past started to come back to me fairly quickly and I I felt like I could drop myself into the storyline pretty quickly.

In this, the last and final book in the series, we follow the Scribe as he has now become the Traitor. We as readers, knew this was going to happen as we watched him from the beginning, go from the Outlaw, to the Scribe, to being the right hand man of the woman he was falling for Evadine. We knew that he was going to have to eventually make a decision, and we were honestly not sure at various points what direction he was going to fall - but he did not let us down.

This book takes us on this journey. Alwyn has finally had the blinders taken off and he is paying the price. But honestly, I think I loved this book all the more for it.

I listened to this completely on audio and I think because of that I might have missed some of the finer details, but I still enjoyed it. The reason I mention this is because in the second book I'm just now remembering that Alwyn found himself in an odd place of time, in the middle of a battle (as an old man?)....anyway, I think I remember this. But I was hoping that things like this this would have been explained, and maybe it was, but I think it passed over my head, because I don't remember any answers to that.

Regardless, I enjoyed this trilogy and loved being able to be fully immersed into this crazy world of a crazy woman and the effects of a cult like following....

thank goodness for an outlaw scribe.....

Great end to a great trilogy

Very good ending to a really good trilogy. Really enjoyed the characters and how the story concluded

Great end. Great story structure

It was a great End. I couldn’t stop listening. Greta end for the series. Hope there is more to come.

I need more

as is often when finishing a trilogy of books that I love, I am left with a mix of glee and depression. In the span of a couple months, Anthony Ryan went from being unknown to me, to being my favorite author.

performance: this audible is terrible, volume fluxutions, abrupt cutoffs, missing segments, repeated segments. I have actually never listened to any audible book with as many problems at this one.