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Date read: March 1, 2016
Dragon Blood
0.5. Dragon Rider
1. Balanced on the Blade's Edge - Paperback | Kindle
2. Deathmaker
3. Blood Charged
4. Patterns in the Dark
5. The Blade's Memory
5.5. Under the Ice Blades
6. Raptor
7. Soulblade
7.1. The Fowl Proposal
7.5. Shattered Past
7.8. Crazy Canyon
8. Oaths
Lindsay Buroker
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Synopsis (Goodreads):
Colonel Ridge Zirkander isn't the model of military professionalism - he has a tendency to say exactly what’s on his mind, and his record has enough demerits to wallpaper the hull of an airship - but as the best fighter pilot in the Iskandian army, he’s used to a little leniency from his superiors. Until he punches the wrong diplomat in the nose and finds himself issued new orders: take command of a remote prison mine in the inhospitable Ice Blades Mountains. Ridge has never been in charge of anything larger than a flier squadron — what’s he supposed to do with a frozen fortress full of murderers and rapists? Not to mention the strange woman who shows up right before he arrives...Thoughts on Balanced on the Blade's Edge: Oh, this book hit the spot. Steampunky with magic and secrets and dangerous enemies. Although, perhaps, the most dangerous ones to Sardelle are the ones who aren't her enemies at all, but simply people who are so wary of magic they'll do their utmost to root it out at the source.
Sardelle Terushan wakes from three hundred years in a mage stasis shelter, only to realize that she is the last of the Referatu, the sorcerers who once helped protect Iskandia from conquerors. Their subterranean mountain community was blown up in a treacherous sneak attack by soldiers who feared their power. Everyone Sardelle ever knew is dead, and the sentient soulblade she has been bonded to since her youth is buried in the core of the mountain. Further, what remains of her home has been infested by bloodthirsty miners commanded by the descendants of the very soldiers who destroyed her people.
Sardelle needs help to reach her soulblade — her only link to her past and her last friend in the world. Her only hope is to pretend she’s one of the prisoners while trying to gain the commander’s trust. But lying isn't her specialty, especially when the world has changed so much in the intervening centuries, and if Colonel Zirkander figures out who she truly is, he’ll be duty-bound to sentence her to the only acceptable punishment for sorcerers: death.
Considering Sardelle is a mage, this is a wee bit problematic for her. As I'm sure you can imagine.
On the other side of the coin, we have Ridge. He's a bit of a wild card. In a good way. He judges people on their actions and he's not afraid to try something unorthodox to get things moving in the direction he thinks they need to be heading in. His devil-may-care attitude certainly works for Sardelle.
I genuinely enjoyed the world building. I liked the characters. I want to see more of the world outside the frozen mine. Basically, book 2 is already loaded up and waiting for me to dive in.
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