The Blade's Memory by Lindsay Buroker [Review]

The Blade's Memory (Dragon Blood #5) by Lindsay Buroker
Format: ebook
Source: purchased
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Date read: July 2, 2022

Dragon Blood
0.5. Dragon Rider
 1. Balanced on the Blade's Edge
2. Deathmaker
3. Blood Charged
4. Patterns in the Dark
5. The Blade's Memory - Paperback | Kindle
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):

The king is missing.

A secret organization is hunting sorcerers.

The enemy has powerful new weapons to deploy, and the capital is more vulnerable than it's ever been.

Worst of all, at least in Ridge Zirkander's view, someone put that jackass Colonel Therrik in charge of the flier battalion.

Ridge, Sardelle, and their comrades have a lot of problems to fix, but they can't show their faces in the capital without being arrested or shot. This time, it's going to take a lot more than magic to save the country.

Thoughts on The Blade's Memory: We're back with Ridge, Sardelle and crew and...they have a lot on their hands. A missing king, a lot of shady orders of questionable origin, Ridge's muscle-bound nemesis in charge of things, and just a whole lot of danger for everyone in general.

Given that Ridge and those with him left things in a bit of a hurry and are currently considered enemies of the state (or close enough, I guess), NATURALLY they head straight back into the middle of it all to help. Because chaotic plans seem to work for these guys.

It helps to have a sorceress and a soul blade on their side AND a couple of individuals who excel at creating diversions (of the explosive variety). In other words, their plan is risky and fraught with danger, but none of them are willing to walk away with the fate of the kingdom on the line.

A little aerial dog fighting, an unexpected new power rising up at a very inconvenient time, Jaxi's meddling in, well, everything, a little creative explosive placing, and more than a few very close calls. It's a dark, dangerous time for the Iskandians and Ridge and crew are running headfirst into trouble trying to stop it where they can. GOOD STUFF!