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A review by bookwormbunny
Civil Blood by Mark Gelineau, Joe King
4.0
I received a free copy of this book (an ARC) in exchange for my unbiased review. The opinions stated are solely my own.
Civil Blood is part two in the story of Daxs and Alys. Trouble has come for Alys and it is a remnant from her past. A former member that she used to know has resurfaced after all this time and is looking to stir things up with one intention: Get to Pious Black…and kill him. Pious Black is the man who runs Lowside and when one of his captains has something stolen from him…well, the man knows that his life is now forfeit for flinching after being baited. Dax gets pulled in as the Justice of the area of Lowside now but his brother looks to try and protect him from what is coming by testing him and see if he can be brought in on what is going on down there.
Nothing is what it seems in Lowside…or on Highside either…no one’s hands are as clean as they pretend to be. Gelineau and King raise a lot of questions with this book and of course leave us with a cliffhanger as characters are revealed in mysterious ways. They so expertly lead us one way and let our minds start thinking…okay…what if THIS character is actually Pious Black? Only to discover that they aren’t….leaving us to think and say…”Well played sirs…well played.” The saying in Lowside is is that if you go looking for the truth it will get you killed. One of my favorite lines was about the spiders and the flies but when they threw in the added twist…owls. While the spiders and flies are playing their games and eating the owls are waiting to devour all. It’s so true and just engages you more as you read on to find out…who is what and who will make it to the end?
There are so many twists and turns, shifts and changes…you honestly wonder…what is the ultimate game with these characters? Who is truly loyal and who is just there until a better opportunity presents itself? Down in Lowside…you always have to be on your guard and the same is true with Civil Blood. We even get teased with a hint at Kay from Faith and Moonlight when she is mentioned briefly which immediately caught my attention and made me want to know more. (Well played gentlemen…well played. LOL)
What can I say? Gelineau and King have done it again. They sucked me into another good book and they left me more than ready for book 3. I will be impatiently waiting for their next book in this series as I know that it will only get better and better. I give this book 4 out of 5 stars. Definitely something that everyone who loves fantasy should be checking out. I will be purchasing these stories and be reading them over and over again. They are truly engaging.
Civil Blood is part two in the story of Daxs and Alys. Trouble has come for Alys and it is a remnant from her past. A former member that she used to know has resurfaced after all this time and is looking to stir things up with one intention: Get to Pious Black…and kill him. Pious Black is the man who runs Lowside and when one of his captains has something stolen from him…well, the man knows that his life is now forfeit for flinching after being baited. Dax gets pulled in as the Justice of the area of Lowside now but his brother looks to try and protect him from what is coming by testing him and see if he can be brought in on what is going on down there.
Nothing is what it seems in Lowside…or on Highside either…no one’s hands are as clean as they pretend to be. Gelineau and King raise a lot of questions with this book and of course leave us with a cliffhanger as characters are revealed in mysterious ways. They so expertly lead us one way and let our minds start thinking…okay…what if THIS character is actually Pious Black? Only to discover that they aren’t….leaving us to think and say…”Well played sirs…well played.” The saying in Lowside is is that if you go looking for the truth it will get you killed. One of my favorite lines was about the spiders and the flies but when they threw in the added twist…owls. While the spiders and flies are playing their games and eating the owls are waiting to devour all. It’s so true and just engages you more as you read on to find out…who is what and who will make it to the end?
There are so many twists and turns, shifts and changes…you honestly wonder…what is the ultimate game with these characters? Who is truly loyal and who is just there until a better opportunity presents itself? Down in Lowside…you always have to be on your guard and the same is true with Civil Blood. We even get teased with a hint at Kay from Faith and Moonlight when she is mentioned briefly which immediately caught my attention and made me want to know more. (Well played gentlemen…well played. LOL)
What can I say? Gelineau and King have done it again. They sucked me into another good book and they left me more than ready for book 3. I will be impatiently waiting for their next book in this series as I know that it will only get better and better. I give this book 4 out of 5 stars. Definitely something that everyone who loves fantasy should be checking out. I will be purchasing these stories and be reading them over and over again. They are truly engaging.