Blood and Betrayal (The Emperor's Edge Book 5)
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The last thing Maldynado Montichelu—former aristocrat and current ladies' man—ever wanted was to be left in charge. After all, the team just blew up a train, crashed a dirigible, and kidnapped the emperor. It's kind of an important time.
But, with Amaranthe captured by the nefarious Forge coalition, and Sicarius off to find her, the team is lacking in leaders. Also, Sicarius has made it clear that Maldynado’s life may be forfeit should anything happen to the emperor while he’s gone.
To make matters worse, Forge’s cutthroats are after Sespian, and the young emperor believes Maldynado's loyalties are suspect. As if it’s his fault that his older brother is working with the coalition to usurp the throne. If Maldynado can’t figure out how to earn the emperor’s trust quickly, Sespian will go off to confront their powerful enemies on his own.
Meanwhile, Amaranthe must find a way to escape from the coalition’s newest ally, Master Interrogator Pike, a man who plans to pull all of the secrets from her head, one way or another...
Blood and Betrayal is the fifth novel in The Emperor’s Edge series. If you haven’t read the first one yet, you can pick it up for free.
Lindsay Buroker
Lindsay Buroker war Rettungsschwimmerin, Soldatin bei der U.S. Army und hat als IT-Administratorin gearbeitet. Sie hat eine Menge Geschichten zu erzählen. Seit 2011 tut sie das hauptberuflich und veröffentlicht ihre Steampunk-Fantasy-Romane im Self-Publishing. Die erfolgreiche Indie-Autorin und begeisterte Bloggerin lebt in Arizona und hat inzwischen zahlreiche Romanserien und Kurzgeschichten geschrieben. Der erste Band der Emperor’s-Edge-Serie „Die Klinge des Kaisers“ ist jetzt ins Deutsche übersetzt.
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Reviews for Blood and Betrayal (The Emperor's Edge Book 5)
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5100% love the books wish I could listen to them!
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Good writing knows when to show and when to tell, which was not the case here. This book actually horrified me, and not in a good way. It needs more proofreading, and I’ve grown tired of Amaranthe. While she’s had a couple moments of doubt over the course of the series she doesn’t actually learned from them and thus hasn’t really had any significant character development and it’s the end of book 5 already. It did not help that it’s Maldynado’s turn to share, so the alternative is following him as he spouts his heteronormativity and toxic masculinity while advising Akstyr and Sespian to follow his example.
Given the context that Yara has explicitly stated multiple times that she doesn’t want to be touched, Maldynado literally says she should be impressed he hasn’t sexually assaulted her in his comrades’ absence and told her she should smile more. He regularly speaks of women as if they’re a sport and not people and most of his behavior goes unchallenged, at worst it’s rewarded. He also claims Amaranthe likes cleaning, but text so far indicates it’s an OCD and anxiety response.
Despite supposedly having suffered at a week of torture at the hands of the master interrogator, Amaranthe seems largely unaffected. Mentally her thought processes didn’t change at all, she’s able to jog, sprint, swim, lunge, and even restrain a man who had no handicap. A few days of not rest and suboptimal medical aid and she’s back to beating people up. Only roughly half a page was devoted to her trauma, plus a couple twitchy moments later.
Vocab list this time: ersatz instead of substitute, incipient instead of budding, tête-à-tête instead of face-to-face, ensconced instead of settled, victuals instead of food, hirsute instead of hairy, jocularity instead of humor, puerile instead of juvenile, quiescent instead of inactive, sinewy instead of muscular, ministrations instead of care, sybaritic instead of sensual, littoral instead of coastal, erudite instead of scholarly, domiciles instead of homes, milieu instead of environment, maudlin instead of emotional. - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5More of the same from Buroker. Fun fantasy-steampunk that tells a good adventure tale but won't leave you awake thinking about it afterwards.