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Damelas Chademantaigne picked a poor night to flee a judicial duel.
He has precious little hope of escaping the wrath of the Vixen, the most feared duellist in the entire city, until he stumbles through the stage doors of the magnificent Operato Belleza and tricks his way into the company of actors. An archaic law provides a temporary respite from his troubles - until one night a ghostly voice in his head causes Damelas to fumble his lines, inadvertently blurting out a dreadful truth: the city's most legendary hero may actually be a traitor and a brutal murderer.
With only the help of his boisterous and lusty friend Bereto, a beautiful assassin whose target may well be Damelas himself, and a company of misfit actors who'd just as soon see him dead, this failed grandson of two Greatcoats must somehow find within himself the courage to dig up long-buried truths before a ruthless band of bravos known as the Iron Orchids come for his head.
Oh, and there's still that matter of the Vixen waiting to duel him . . .
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Estevar Borros, one of the legendary sword-fighting magistrates known as the Greatcoats and the king's personal investigator of the supernatural, is no stranger to tales of ghosts and demons. When the fractious monks of the abbey rumoured to be the birthplace of the gods begin warring over claims of a new pantheon arising, the frantic abbot summons him to settle the dispute. But Estevar has his own problems: a near-fatal sword wound from his last judicial duel, a sworn knight who claims he has proof the monks are consorting with demons, a diabolical inquisitor, and a mysterious young woman.
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Masterful and dark
- By Stephanie on 12-23-23
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Tales of the Greatcoats
- Swashbuckling Fantasy Stories
- By: Sebastien de Castell
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson, Kristin Atherton, Chris Humphreys
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
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Here are eight tales of the Greatcoats, legendary sword-fighting magistrates brought together by an idealistic young king and disbanded after his execution as a tyrant. Follow along through their swashbuckling adventures, their triumphs and defeats, their darkest hours and their moments of shining redemption as they struggle to bring justice to a corrupt kingdom.
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- By A on 01-15-22
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Traitor's Blade
- Greatcoats Series, Book 1
- By: Sebastien de Castell
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
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The King is dead, the Greatcoats have been disbanded, and Falcio Val Mond and his fellow magistrates Kest and Brasti have been reduced to working as bodyguards for a nobleman who refuses to pay them. Things could be worse, of course. Their employer could be lying dead on the floor while they are forced to watch the killer plant evidence framing them for the murder. Oh wait, that's exactly what's happening. Now a royal conspiracy is about to unfold in the most corrupt city in the world.
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Fun Adventure Fantasy
- By Scott S. on 06-19-18
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The Malevolent Seven
- By: Sebastien de Castell
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
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My name is Cade Ombra, and though I currently make my living as a mercenary wonderist, I used to have a far more noble-sounding job title—until I discovered the people I worked for weren't quite as noble as I'd believed. Now I'm on the run and my only friend, a homicidal thunder mage, has invited me to join him on a suicide mission against the seven deadliest mages on the continent. Time to recruit some very bad people to help us on this job.
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Wandered off the promised path
- By 🔥 Phx17 🔥 on 09-30-23
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A Tale of Treachery
- Darkest Dynasty, Book 1
- By: Mellie T. Tollem
- Narrated by: Jacci Prior
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
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Dahlia has spent her life running from a monster, only to fall into another's path. It's been ten years since she escaped the darkness. Ten years spent hiding her magic in a kingdom where magic is outlawed. Despite neglecting that side of herself, Dahlia is happy with the life she's built in Cambriel. Not only is she on the fast track to becoming a royal scholar, but the love of her life, Prince Aiden, is finally returning her long-held affections.
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The story !
- By Andrea Y. on 04-13-24
By: Mellie T. Tollem
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The Maleficent Seven
- By: Cameron Johnston
- Narrated by: George Weightman
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
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Black Herran was a dread demonologist, and the most ruthless general in all Essoran. She assembled the six most fearsome warriors to captain her armies: a necromancer, a vampire lord, a demigod, an orcish warleader, a pirate queen, and a twisted alchemist. Together, they brought the whole continent to its knees.... Until the day she abandoned her army, on the eve of total victory.
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Suicide Squad meets Joe Ambercrombie
- By @abagoflit on 08-18-21
By: Cameron Johnston
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Crucible of Chaos
- Court of Shadows, Book 0.5
- By: Sebastien de Castell
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
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Estevar Borros, one of the legendary sword-fighting magistrates known as the Greatcoats and the king's personal investigator of the supernatural, is no stranger to tales of ghosts and demons. When the fractious monks of the abbey rumoured to be the birthplace of the gods begin warring over claims of a new pantheon arising, the frantic abbot summons him to settle the dispute. But Estevar has his own problems: a near-fatal sword wound from his last judicial duel, a sworn knight who claims he has proof the monks are consorting with demons, a diabolical inquisitor, and a mysterious young woman.
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Masterful and dark
- By Stephanie on 12-23-23
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Tales of the Greatcoats
- Swashbuckling Fantasy Stories
- By: Sebastien de Castell
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson, Kristin Atherton, Chris Humphreys
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
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Here are eight tales of the Greatcoats, legendary sword-fighting magistrates brought together by an idealistic young king and disbanded after his execution as a tyrant. Follow along through their swashbuckling adventures, their triumphs and defeats, their darkest hours and their moments of shining redemption as they struggle to bring justice to a corrupt kingdom.
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More joe Jameson
- By A on 01-15-22
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Traitor's Blade
- Greatcoats Series, Book 1
- By: Sebastien de Castell
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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The King is dead, the Greatcoats have been disbanded, and Falcio Val Mond and his fellow magistrates Kest and Brasti have been reduced to working as bodyguards for a nobleman who refuses to pay them. Things could be worse, of course. Their employer could be lying dead on the floor while they are forced to watch the killer plant evidence framing them for the murder. Oh wait, that's exactly what's happening. Now a royal conspiracy is about to unfold in the most corrupt city in the world.
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Fun Adventure Fantasy
- By Scott S. on 06-19-18
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The Malevolent Seven
- By: Sebastien de Castell
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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My name is Cade Ombra, and though I currently make my living as a mercenary wonderist, I used to have a far more noble-sounding job title—until I discovered the people I worked for weren't quite as noble as I'd believed. Now I'm on the run and my only friend, a homicidal thunder mage, has invited me to join him on a suicide mission against the seven deadliest mages on the continent. Time to recruit some very bad people to help us on this job.
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Wandered off the promised path
- By 🔥 Phx17 🔥 on 09-30-23
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A Tale of Treachery
- Darkest Dynasty, Book 1
- By: Mellie T. Tollem
- Narrated by: Jacci Prior
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Dahlia has spent her life running from a monster, only to fall into another's path. It's been ten years since she escaped the darkness. Ten years spent hiding her magic in a kingdom where magic is outlawed. Despite neglecting that side of herself, Dahlia is happy with the life she's built in Cambriel. Not only is she on the fast track to becoming a royal scholar, but the love of her life, Prince Aiden, is finally returning her long-held affections.
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The story !
- By Andrea Y. on 04-13-24
By: Mellie T. Tollem
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The Maleficent Seven
- By: Cameron Johnston
- Narrated by: George Weightman
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Black Herran was a dread demonologist, and the most ruthless general in all Essoran. She assembled the six most fearsome warriors to captain her armies: a necromancer, a vampire lord, a demigod, an orcish warleader, a pirate queen, and a twisted alchemist. Together, they brought the whole continent to its knees.... Until the day she abandoned her army, on the eve of total victory.
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Suicide Squad meets Joe Ambercrombie
- By @abagoflit on 08-18-21
By: Cameron Johnston
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The Fury of a Vampire Witch (Books 1-5)
- A Paranormal and Urban Fantasy
- By: Theophilus Monroe
- Narrated by: Kelley Hazen
- Length: 31 hrs and 32 mins
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After 130+ years as a vampire, Mercy returns to her hometown of Exeter where she joins Prince Ladinas and his team of underground vampires to stop a host of ancient vampires who've returned from vampire hell.
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Loved this one!
- By Shannon Skinner on 05-13-24
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A Path of Possession
- The N-ergy Cycle, Book 1
- By: Charles Brass
- Narrated by: Sylvia Gonçalves
- Length: 19 hrs and 7 mins
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Two seasons ago, then-fifteen-celebrations-old Lake-Ellen Redwood’s Path in life changed when she became a fledgling Lady of the Leaves. On the morning she attempts to resume her lifelong goal of becoming a guild-certified accountant, she suffers a lightning strike while meditating beneath the massive Heart of the Forest. Fearful the incident blasted into her the devil rumored to be slumbering within the two-millennia-old tree, the local ruling council banishes her under penalty of death. Forced to flee, she travels to her uncle’s house in a distant city to heal in anonymity.
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Good Listen
- By Soren Mogensen on 04-10-24
By: Charles Brass
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The Empire's Ruin
- Ashes of the Unhewn Throne, Book 1
- By: Brian Staveley
- Narrated by: Moira Quirk, Joe Jameson, Oliver Cudbill
- Length: 35 hrs and 33 mins
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The Annurian Empire is disintegrating. The advantages it used for millennia have fallen to ruin. The ranks of the Kettral have been decimated from within, and the kenta gates, granting instantaneous travel across the vast lands of the empire, can no longer be used. In order to save the empire, one of the surviving Kettral must voyage beyond the edge of the known world through a land that warps and poisons all living things to find the nesting ground of the giant war hawks. Meanwhile, a monk turned con-artist may hold the secret to the kenta gates.
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This is a horrible book
- By BeauFLA on 07-19-21
By: Brian Staveley
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Dracula Park
- By: Dana Grigorcea
- Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
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In post-Communist Romania, on the border with Transylvania, the sleepy little town of B. is losing its young people to the West. A young painter returned from Paris and her eccentric great-aunt seem unconcerned with the decline of the town, until a mutilated corpse is found in the family crypt of Prince Vlad the Impaler, better known as Dracula. As the world's attention turns to B., the mayor and his son take advantage and turn the town into a vampire-inspired theme park. Tourists flock, but beneath the surface ancient horrors live on.
By: Dana Grigorcea
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The Goldenblood Heir
- Book 1
- By: Boris Romanovsky, Zachary J. Lorang - Translator
- Narrated by: Tristan Morris
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
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I'm a pretty unique guy. I have golden blood flowing through my veins. There are only about thirty people like me in the entire world. Yes, golden blood is a real thing. Google it if you don't believe me. My blood has allowed me to join a group of test subjects, eventually becoming the proud owner of an AI neural chip best known as Alisa. My blood has allowed me to be reborn after death: reborn to a new life in a world governed by magic, a world where humans are locked in mortal combat with monsters. Reborn—into the body of a terminally ill young guy who has but two days left to live.
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Glossary
- By Amazon Customer on 03-11-24
By: Boris Romanovsky, and others
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Reject Me
- Immortal Vices and Virtues, Book 1
- By: Kel Carpenter, Aurelia Jane
- Narrated by: Teddy Hamilton, Michelle Sparks
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
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I refuse to spend the rest of my life with my childhood bully for a mate. I may be a cursed shifter, incapable of shifting—but I wasn't desperate. Not till the Alpha Supreme cast me out of the House of Fire and Fluorite for rejecting his son. Now I'm packless. Homeless. No longer under the protection of a House. Until the dark vampire king of Blood and Beryl turns his sights on me. In return for protection from my former House, I have to become his fake mate. I'll be a queen and a fraud. It's a treacherous lie to live—and I find myself forgetting what's real and what's not.
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No virtual voice . Thanks
- By Taz on 05-01-24
By: Kel Carpenter, and others
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The Last Phi Hunter
- By: Salinee Goldenberg
- Narrated by: David Lee Huynh
- Length: 12 hrs
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Ex, the youngest member of the Phi Hunters Order, has spent his life slaying the ghosts and demons of Suyoram Kingdom. While he takes great pride in his mystical trade, collecting dwindling bounties and peddling butchered spirit organs lacks the glory he craves. He’s determined to hunt down Shar-Ala—a demon of nightmares, of madness—who has eluded even Ex’s masters. In a provincial village along the way, Arinya, a charming muay-boran champion, manages to save Ex, despite being nine-months pregnant. In return, she asks him to escort her through the dangerous spirit-filled forest.
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Domestication
- A Fantasy LitRPG Adventure (Battle Mage Farmer, Book 1)
- By: Seth Ring
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
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A world on the precipice of the apocalypse. A secret forged in the flames of war. A chance to start over. For John Sutton, only one of those three things matters. Retired from a decade of brutal war, he wants nothing more than a quiet pastoral life while he does his best to stem the steady increase of his Doom Points before they hit 100, signaling the start of the end. He’s been given a small farm on the outskirts of the empire as thanks for his service, but no matter how far he travels, it's impossible to escape the war's devastating effects on the world.
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Worthwhile MC
- By Anonymous User on 06-24-22
By: Seth Ring
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The Sky on Fire
- By: Jenn Lyons
- Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang
- Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
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Anahrod lives only for survival, forging her own way through the harsh jungles of the Deep with her titan drake by her side. Even when an adventuring party saves her from capture by a local warlord, she is eager to return to her solitary life. But this is no ordinary rescue. It’s Anahrod’s past catching up with her. These cunning misfits—and their frustratingly appealing dragonrider ringleader—intend to spirit her away to the dragon-ruled sky cities, where they need her help to steal from a dragon’s hoard.
By: Jenn Lyons
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How to Be a Badass Witch Boxed Set, Books 1-3
- By: Michael Anderle
- Narrated by: Holly Adams
- Length: 25 hrs and 46 mins
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Fed up with playing the normal game, recent university graduate, ex-cum laude, ex-soccer star, ex-popular, and mostly broke Kera MacDonagh changes her life when she decides to research how to be a witch...and believes it.
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Lion's Legacy
- Tennessee Russo
- By: L. C. Rosen
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
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Seventeen-year-old Tennessee Russo's life is imploding. His boyfriend has been cheating on him, and all his friends know about it. Worse, they expect him to just accept his ex's new relationship and make nice. So when his father, a famous archaeologist and reality show celebrity whom he hasn't seen in two years, shows up unexpectedly and offers to take him on an adventure, Tennessee only has a few choices:
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The Empire's Ghost
- A Novel
- By: Isabelle Steiger
- Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
- Length: 19 hrs and 26 mins
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The empire of Elesthene once spanned a continent, but its rise heralded the death of magic. It tore itself apart from within, leaving behind a patchwork of kingdoms struggling to rebuild. But when a new dictator, the ambitious and enigmatic Imperator Elgar, seizes power in the old capital and seeks to recreate the lost empire anew, the other kingdoms have little hope of stopping him.
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Hard cover a great read; audible made me appreciate the author even more
- By HLS on 08-07-17
By: Isabelle Steiger
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- adam
- 04-27-24
Outstanding!
I was reteantst when told, I should indulge in, "The Great Coats". As this author was an unknown to me. However it has been my utter delight to live in this amazing and fantastic world! crafted by someone whom I didn't know, deserved a place amongst the greats. Sebastian DeCastell, is amongst my three favorite authors to date. Thank you sir, for binging tears of sorrow along with peels of laughter in the same paragraph.
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- Samuel Hudnet
- 04-18-24
The Stage is Set
At first I wasn’t drawn in, but now after finishing I’m excited for this new arc of greatcoats stories!
I’ll say this is definitely a heavier title of De Castell’s due to the setting in a society full of vice, corruption, and death. The MC, who’s a bit weak willed then irritatingly bold at the worst moments, didn’t have enough humor to offset the gloom fully, but the level of honor and camaraderie among the characters does cast back the gloom.
One thing this story has plenty of is intrigue, making it into something of a grimdark fantasy. While you will find some use of magic it isn’t that overt until the end, and only with a price.
If you find the start tedious, stick with it as the story gets very good!
Joe Jameson is excellent as usual - my complaint being that some of the voices are hard to distinguish from each other.
All in all a solid read, but if this is your first greatcoats story then go start with the first series rather than here, as there are references you won’t be able to pick up otherwise!
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- Hera
- 04-01-24
Ditto-Love It!
This story is a little bit Locke Lamora, a little bit The Name of the Wind, with a dash of Anchor Man. It manages to be deep and intricate as Game of Thrones but lacks the pretentious fantasy fame factor. It’s easy to listen to with such an excellent and engaging narrator and I really look forward to hearing the full trilogy. Do yourself a huge favor and get this book.
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- Kindle Customer
- 04-12-24
Delighted to have a NEW GC Adventure!
Love this author's style. I was hooked from the first book, Traitor's Blade, and sad when that series ended. I thought maybe this book would pale by comparison but happily he brought it! All of it; intrigue, wit, rags, riches, sardonic charm, and of course swashbuckling etcetera. I recommended to several peeps before finishing the book, mark of a good read ;)
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- Just Chris
- 04-02-24
Don't mess with actors!
Great to be back in Tristia! Sorcerer of words -- Sebastien de Castell -- weaves a clever tale that's both fresh and familiar. And Joe Jameson clearly had a blast bringing the cast of troublemakers and reluctant heroes to life. So much fun.
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- Patrick Ryan
- 03-31-24
Loved it!
Fans of the Greatcoats will really enjoy going back to Tristia. Falcio’s story and his battles are over, but Tristia is not a peaceful nation and there are new battles to fight, new schemes to uncover, and new heroes stepping into the dualing circle to fight for honor, for justice, for glory, and for love.
In other words, there’s a new cast and new plot, but same great writing and same screwed up world.
For the love of Saint Zaghev-who-sings-for-tears, give this book a try!
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- Pat k
- 04-24-24
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another great entry into the world of the great coats and a great first book for a new saga
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- Scott S.
- 05-15-24
Not what I expected.
Play of Shadows from Sebastien de Castell, author of the Greatcoats series, is billed as a return to the world of that series with a new generation of Greatcoats. This book does indeed return to the world of Tristia where the first series was set, but there is something missing here. Actual Greatcoats. This story revolves around a troupe of actors, one of which happens to be the grandson of a Greatcoat. There are only two actual Greatcoats in this story, one being the aforementioned grandfather who is now in his 70s and retired. The other, Brasti, one of the heroes of the first series who only makes a brief appearance in the final chapter.
Despite the lack of Greatcoats, and a little disappointment in their absence, Play of Shadows is a typical fun adventure you expect from de Castell. The actors troupe stumbles upon a long forgotten conspiracy and draws the attention of not only the Duke, but also a long hidden secret society who seeks to gain control of the country.
Overall, this is an enjoyable story, but wasn't quite the Greatcoats story I was expecting. There are some tie-ins, mostly towards the end, and it's possible this series will become more of a Greatcoats story as it progresses. I have been a fan of de Castell, and Joe Jameson who does another great job here, so I expect to continue on with this series and trust it will be a fun and entertaining listen.
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