Given that the synopsis of Brian McLellan’s Promise of Blood promises a book overflowing with political intrigue and action, it’s surprising how little of it actually ends up on the page. As long-ignored religious forces begin gathering, even the vaunted powder mages, whose abilities allow them to control bullets and ignite gunpowder from a distance, are hard-pressed to tell ally from enemy. Meanwhile, Adamat, a retired investigator must track down a traitor even as he is being blackmailed himself. Meanwhile, Tamas’s estranged son, the powder mage and expert marksman Taniel, is willing to aide his father’s quest to make the world a better place, but he has issues of his own. But while Tamas’s intentions are noble, leading a country is not as easy at it seems, for his conspirators are not the pure-hearted reformers they claim to be, and forces both within the country and without conspire to overthrow Tamas himself for the sake of their own power.
“The age of kings is dead,” Field Marshal Tamas declares at the beginning of Promise of Blood, after he stages a bloody coup that brings and end to the corrupt and inept monarchy that enriched itself while allowing the common people to starve. Promise of Blood (The Powder Mage Trilogy #1)
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