No Good Deed: Saga of the Redeemed: Book II

Auston Habershaw

Jun 2016 · Sold by HarperCollins

About this ebook

Cursed with a magic ring that forbids skullduggery, Tyvian Reldamar’s life of crime is sadly behind him. Now reduced to fencing moldy relics and wheedling favors from petty nobility, he’s pretty sure his life can’t get any worse.

That is until he hears that his old nemesis, Myreon Alafarr, has been framed for a crime she didn’t commit and turned to stone in a penitentiary garden. Somebody is trying to get his attention, and that somebody is playing a very high-stakes game that will draw Tyvian and his friends back to the city of his birth and right under the noses of the Defenders he’s been dodging for so long. And that isn’t even the worst part. The worst part is that the person pulling all the strings is none other than the most powerful sorceress in the West: Lyrelle Reldamar.

Tyvian’s own mother.

Ratings and reviews

Almost all the characters are engaging and the story and telling are definitely unique, but the lack of character depth in some characters (the supposed female lead oscillates between self-righteousness and idiocy on a frequent pendulum) detracts from the shifting moral compass of the main characters.

Like the book before, takes a few familiar tropes and puts them in a new and fully-realized setting, making something unique and, most importantly, enjoyable. Will definitely be reading the next one!

Love the characters. One of those books that you don't want to end.

About the author

On the day Auston Habershaw was born, Skylab fell from the heavens. This foretold two possible fates: supervillain or scifi/fantasy author. Fortunately he chose the latter, and spends his time imagining the could-be and the never-was rather than disintegrating the moon with his volcano laser. Auston is a winner of the Writers of the Future Contest and has had work published in Analog and Escape Pod, among other places. He lives and works in Boston, MA.Find him online at http://aahabershaw.com/, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/aahabershaw, or follow him on Twitter @AustonHab.